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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The deadline for paper submission is fast approaching. Please consider submitting your paper to the Business Analytics for Organizational Performance Management
Mini-track<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Call for Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> AMCIS 2015, August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mini-track Title:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Business Analytics for Organizational Performance Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Track:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Business Analytics, Big Data, and Knowledge Management (SIGDSA)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The goal of business analytics (BA) is to summarize massive amounts of disparate corporate and customer data into succinct information that can help management
better understand their business processes, make informed decisions, and measure and improve organizational performance. BA can provide managers with the ability to integrate enterprise-wide data into metrics that link specific objectives to the performance
of different business units. In today’s hypercompetitive environment, accurate real-time BA metrics are even more critical for measuring and enhancing organizational performance. Many technologies contribute to BA solutions, including databases, data warehouses,
data marts, analytic processing, social analytics, and data mining, among others. BA needs to acquire data from multiple platforms and provide ubiquitous access. This requirement to leverage so-called “big data” presents numerous managerial challenges. This
mini-track aims to promote innovative research in the BA domains of organizational performance measurement and improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Suggested Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Real-time business metrics for performance measurement
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Using BA to support the “balanced scorecard”
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Developing the warehouse to support “digital dashboards”
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Critical BA success factors for management control
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Analytical processing
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Techniques for summarizing data
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assessing organizational performance using BA metrics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Information extraction and report generation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Real-time decision making</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Online analytical processing (modeling)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Business performance management (BPM) and improvement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Economic analysis of business analytics
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Business analytics strategies
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Business analytics performance metrics
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Business analytics implementation management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BA governance, implementation, and management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vigilant information systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Leveraging big data for performance improvement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Summarizing and visualizing organizational performance metrics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Social analytics on organizational performance management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Predictive analytics<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important Dates for Interested Authors:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">January 5, 2015: Manuscript Submission opens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">February 25, 2015: Manuscript Submission closes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 5, 2015: Final decisions on papers made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For submission guidelines, please refer to:
<a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For general information on AMCIS 2015:
<a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mini-track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Benjamin Shao, Arizona State University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ben.shao@asu.edu">ben.shao@asu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(480)727-6790<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Robert D. St. Louis, Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:st.louis@asu.edu">st.louis@asu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(480)965-1440<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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