[AISWorld] Final CfP: Business Analytics and Big Data @ ECIS 2020

[Christian Janiesch]

Final Call for Papers

28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2020) June 15th - 17th
2020 / Marrakesh, Morocco
Track: Business Analytics and Big Data
(https://ecis2020.ma/ecis-2020-tracks/)

*Track Description*

Applications benefitting from data, information, and knowledge constitute
the foundation for the datafication of our society reshaping the nature of
information systems. While the datafication can help the drive towards a
sustainable and inclusive future enabling Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
in a Digitizing World, the use of data can also lead to threats to our
freedoms, to fairness, and to community. Consequently, ethical consideration
in novel and advanced approaches for collecting, storing, managing, and
analyzing data are required and challenge practitioners and academia as more
and more data (big data) becomes available. This trend, as well as
digitalization in general, fosters the assimilation and further development
of business intelligence and business analytics approaches within
organizations and across various industries. In addition, governments and
non-profit organizations can benefit from new opportunities raised by
analytical applications and technologies.

Many scholars are now emphasizing the importance of business analytics and
big data approaches as well as information assets for efficient and
effective decision support, management, and leadership. Business analytics
is essential for an organization’s daily business, directly influencing firm
performance and business development in a global world. The application of
business analytics and big data approaches enables us to integrate, analyze,
visualize, and ultimately understand and improve the complex processes that
make up our digitized world. Such approaches are enablers for knowledge
discovery benefitting societies, organizations, and individuals leading to
smart technologies. Improved communication, more sustainable processes, as
well as new business models are examples for the innovative use of disparate
data sources (such as mobile, the Internet of Things, streaming data or
social media data). Furthermore, the availability of seemingly endless
computing and cheaper storage capabilities available through cloud computing
enables new opportunities in providing a global gateway to information as a
service.

Over the past few years, there has much enthusiasm around business analytics
as organizations explore how they can leverage their data to create and
maintain a competitive advantage. As such, today’s companies try to collect
and process as much data as possible, with the aim of improving their
decision-making processes. Nevertheless, while there is some empirical
evidence that business analytics can create value, the thesis that it leads
to performance gains requires deeper analysis. To date, there is limited
understanding of how organizations need to change to embrace these
technological innovations, and the business shifts they entail. As big data
tools and applications diffuse into the organizational fabric, they will
inevitably change long-standing ideas about decision making, management
practices, and most importantly competitive strategy formulation.

Motivated by the explosion of interest in these emerging fields, the present
track aims to promote multidisciplinary contributions dealing with
socio-economic, organizational, technological, cultural, and societal
perspectives. Furthermore, outcomes that demonstrate critical success
factors on the organizational impact of business analytics and big data in
terms of competitive performance, innovativeness, increased agility, and
market capitalizing competence are encouraged. We welcome submissions based
on quantitative and qualitative work, theoretical research, design research,
action research, or behavioral research.

We are especially interested in papers that discuss and expand our
understanding of how digital technologies are influencing and impacting
fundamental human values, whether at the indthe societal level. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* The role of business intelligence, business analytics, and big data for
liberty, equality, and fraternity in a digitizing world
* Strategic and change management issues stemming from business analytics
and big data
* Business value and success of business analytics and big data
* Emerging and changing concepts and methodologies for business analytics
and big data
* Use cases and innovative applications for business analytics and big data
* Adoption, routinization, maturity, and use of business analytics and big
data
* Data privacy, data quality, and data governance
* Opportunities and challenges of sharing data and of open data
* Big-data-driven business model innovation and the digital ecosystem big
data
* Data visualization, visual analytics
* Business analytics in the cloud, business analytics as a service
* Data, text and social media analytics for business analytics
* Process mining and the benefits of robotic process automation
* Digital manufacturing and the Internet of Things
* Operational, real-time, or event-driven business analytics
               
*Special Issue*

Following ECIS 2020, selected papers will be invited to submit a
considerably enhanced and extended revision of the paper reflecting the
discussion at ECIS to the Journal of Business Analytics (JBA). JBA
encourages empirical papers focusing on real problems using real data to
provide innovative methodological contributions. JBA’s current issue is
available at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjba20/current.

*Track Chairs*

Christian Janiesch (contact), University of Würzburg, Germany,
christian.janiesch at uni-wuerzburg.de
Barbara Dinter, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany,
barbara.dinter at wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
Patrick Mikalef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway,
patrick.mikalef at ntnu.no
Olgerta Tona, Lund University, Sweden, olgerta.tona at ics.lu.se 

*Important Dates*

November 29th, 2019: Submission deadline
Late February 2020: Notifications
June 15th-17th, 2020: ECIS 2020 conference

We are looking forward to your submissions and seeing you in Marrakesh!

Regards
Barbara, Olgerta, Patrick, and Christian
--
Prof. Dr. Christian Janiesch

Juniorprofessur für Information Management
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Stephanstr. 1
97070 Würzburg

and 

Technische Universität Dresden
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Münchner Platz 3, 01187 Dresden