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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please consider to participate and/or contribute to the Pre-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ECIS2014</span> workshop
on "IT Operations Management". The aim of
this workshop is to provide the current state of knowledge in operational
issues of Information Technology and intends to develop a broad research agenda
for the future of "IT Operations Management". </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The workshop is designed
as an interdisciplinary workshop in the intersection of Information Systems
(IS) and Operations Research (OR). Therefore, the target audience is
distributed among researchers from IS with interest in enterprise systems, interorganisational
systems, IT service management, grid computing, cloud computing, Green IS, from
OR with interest in capacity planning, service modeling, systems optimization,
and industry experts in the area of data center management and IT service
provisioning.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Submission to the Ideas Corner is still open!! S</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">ubmit late
breaking results, ideas, position papers and opinion papers on the related topics.
Aim of the workshop is to identify the future direction for IT Operations
Management. Every contribution to this goal is very welcome. Moreover, since we
have several fast-track possibilities for journal publications, this might be a
nice option to discuss preliminary results</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To contribute to the Ideas Corner, please submit your paper (2-4 pages) to
the Easychair su</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">bmission system of the workshop: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itom2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itom2014</a></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The submission deadline is June 01, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop website: <a href="http://ecis2014.eu/it-operations-management/" target="_blank">http://<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ecis2014</span>.eu/it-operations-management/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The workshop takes place at June 8th, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span>,
Tel Aviv. Please see the ECIS2014 website for details.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Let me draw your attention to two central points:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- there will be several options for fast-tracking excellent submissions to
leading journals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- there will be an interactive session as well as a panel discussion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For further information and any questions, please contact:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
Dr. Holger Schroedl: <a href="mailto:holger.schroedl@ovgu.de" target="_blank">holger.schroedl@ovgu.de</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I am looking forward for many exciting contributions and compelling
discussions at the workshop!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Holger</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Holger Schrödl<br>
Research Associate<br>Chair of Business Informatics<br>Faculty of Informatics<br><br>Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg<br>Universitätsplatz 2, 39016 Magdeburg<br><br>Tel.: <a href="tel:%2B49%20%28391%29%2067-58389" value="+493916758389" target="_blank">+49 (391) 67-58389</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B49%20%28391%29%2067-11216" value="+493916711216" target="_blank">+49 (391) 67-11216</a><br>
<a href="mailto:holger.schroedl@ovgu.de" target="_blank">holger.schroedl@ovgu.de</a><br><a href="http://mrcc.ovgu.de" target="_blank">http://mrcc.ovgu.de</a></div></div></div>