[AISWorld] call for chapters: Information systems reengineering for modern business systems

[Raul Valverde]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2010
Information systems reengineering for modern business systems: ERP, SCM,
CRM and E-Commerce Management Solutions
A book edited by Dr. Raul Valverde, and Dr. Malleswara Talla
Concordia University, Canada
To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=838

Introduction
The vast majority of enterprise information systems (IS) were implemented
in the early days of computing by using the traditional paradigms and
implemented with a structured computer languages such as COBOL. However,
with recent developments, particularly the trends towards e-Commerce, ERP,
Customer Relationship Management and Supply chain management, many
companies are realizing that they will have to migrate to the new systems
to take advantages of these new challenges.  
Although the management makes strategic decisions to implement the new
systems, such projects often fail for several reasons: the new systems are
quite expensive, involve a radical or unwanted changes to existing
processes, and often cumbersome to implement. In fact, it is possible to
perform reengineering of legacy systems and internal processes to reap up
the same benefits of new systems in a cost effective manner. 


Objective of the Book
The main objective of the book will be to cover different techniques that
could be used in industry in order to reengineer internal processes and
the legacy systems into more flexible systems capable of supporting modern
trends such as ERP, Supply chain management systems and E-commerce.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of: (a) Information
systems professionals and business executives  looking for new  techniques
for reengineering legacy systems; (b) Information systems researchers
interested in reengineering the existing systems to adopt and implement
the feature of modern systems; and (c) management consultants and academia
to examine the internal processes to propose reengineer them successfully. 


Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Introduction, Legacy Systems and Internal Business Processes
2. Information Systems reengineering methods
3. Internal Process reengineering methods

Techniques for Legacy systems and the internal processes to successfully
adopt and implement the features required for new business challenges,
including:
 
4. Reengineering for Supply chain management systems
5. Reengineering for Enterprise Resource Planning systems implementation
6. Reengineering for Customer Relationship Management systems
implementation
7. Reengineering for E-commerce

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 15,
2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals
will be notified by April 20, 2010 about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
August 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind
review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for
this project.
 Additional information regarding this publication can also
be found at http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~rvalverde/book.htm


Publisher
 This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea
Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI
Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher,
please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be
released in 2011.

Important Dates:
April 15, 2010:		Proposal Submission Deadline
April 20, 2010:		Notification of Acceptance
August 1, 2010:	Full Chapter Submission
October 15, 2010:	Review Result Returned
January 2, 2010:	Final Chapter Submission
January 31, 2011:	Final deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)
or by mail to:
Dr. Raul Valverde and Dr. Malleswara Talla
Department of Decision Sciences and MIS
Concordia University
1455 De Maisonneuve, West,
Montreal, Canada, H3G 1M8.
E-mail: rvalverde at jmsb.concordia.ca, mrtalla at jmsb.concordia.ca

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