<div dir="ltr"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p><b style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:Cambria,serif">STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC PROJECTS FOR GROWTH & SUSTAINABILITY</span></b><br>
</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">SIGITProjMgmt Minitrack</span></i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);line-height:1em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>Conference Timeline and Venue:</b></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
August 7-10, 2014, AMCIS 2014 Savannah, Georgia</span></p><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="adm"></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org</span></a></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions open<br>March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript submissions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">April 4, 2014</span></strong><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> – Author notification</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Your submissions are welcomed at </span><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Overview</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Public projects are important to nation building however they have continued to receive relatively limited attention in the project management domain. Public projects are any temporary initiatives where the citizens of the country are the primary stakeholders and customers. These primarily include government and NGOs activities aimed at improving the economic and/or social conditions of the public. These public projects have varied characteristics in terms of source of funding and ownership, economic, political and social motives, size and complexity and occur across the spectrum of development of an economy, i.e. developing to developed countries. They however converge on their likelihood to have significant impact on the growth, competitiveness and development of the economy across socio-economic, political and legal dimensions. An analysis of the environment sees that these projects are fraught with their own challenges with far-reaching impact, for example the recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the USA, Philippine’s Anti-cybercrime Act or the Athens Olympic Games and subsequent financial crisis in Greece.  They therefore require careful attention, customized strategies and solutions to manage their performance throughout the project life cycle. Insights into contemporary methodologies, strategies, techniques to enable successful performance, evaluation and management of these projects are therefore important.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">The purpose of this mini-track is to engage in academic conversation across economies to share project strategies, knowledge through lessons learned, best practices and techniques, issues and challenges in the management of these projects. Submissions on or relevant to public projects are welcomed.  Insights and perspectives from developing, emerging and developed economies are particularly encouraged to facilitate comparative analysis and vibrant discourse of the topic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Suggested (non-exclusive) topics relating to or on public projects:</span></p><p></p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Stakeholder engagement and management</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Issues and challenges in managing large-scale government/public projects</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">The political side of managing projects</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Public infrastructure projects (e.g. road, rail, hospital, schools)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Military Projects</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">National security projects including cybersecurity</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Performance evaluation of public projects</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Disaster Recovery Management projects including Early Warning Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Project analytics</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Project Success criteria of public projects</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Critical Success Factors of public projects</span><br><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Project selection in public projects</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Experiences and lessons from developing, emerging and advanced economies</span><br>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">For queries relating to this mini-track contact Corlane Barclay at <a href="mailto:clbarclay@gmail.com" target="_blank">clbarclay@gmail.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Mini-Track Chair Information:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Corlane Barclay</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">University of Technology, Jamaica</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="mailto:clbarclay@gmail.com" target="_blank">clbarclay@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">   </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Cambria,serif">To submit a paper, please follow the directions at <a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers</a></span></p>
</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Regards,<br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><font size="4">Corlane Barclay, </font><font size="1">Ph.D. (IS), LLB, PMP</font></b></span></p>
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