[AISWorld] CfP: WI2021 - Track "IT Strategy, Management & Transformation"

[Nils Urbach]

(Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement.)

 

Call for Papers for the WI2021 track “ IT Strategy, Management &
Transformation”

 

16th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2021), March 9-11,
2021, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

https://wi2021.de/en/

 

Track Chairs

 

Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth & Fraunhofer FIT

Prof. Dr. Paul Drews, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

 

Description

 

In the digital age, new developments in digital technologies lead to
significant changes in the economy and society. A key feature of a digitized
corporate world is that digital technologies are not only used to support
business processes, but are increasingly becoming an inherent part of
products, services and business models. While information technology has
been an important production factor for most companies for a long time,
digital innovations are now leading to a radical transformation of some
industries. On the one hand, digital business model innovations offer
companies the opportunity to conquer established and new markets with fresh
ideas. On the other hand, many companies are increasingly exposed to the
risk of falling victim to the disruptive effects of digitalization.
Accordingly, many companies are currently undergoing a digital
transformation.

 

In this context, the development and implementation of IT strategies and the
management of the IT function are becoming more and more critical tasks for
the company as a whole. Corporate IT has so far concentrated on translating
the requirements of the business departments into high-quality IT services
as effectively as possible and on managing operations. Today, the corporate
IT function needs to engage in shaping the entire company. As part of this
transformation, the IT function has to deal with the requirements of
customers and partners of the company, evaluate and introduce IT innovations
and adapt the IT landscape to the changing needs. The development and
implementation of innovative services increasingly require the integration
of business and IT. In addition to participating in innovation processes,
traditional IT management tasks are also changing: Developments such as
cloud computing simplify the outsourcing of elements of the IT value chain.
The management of IT infrastructures and IT operations can be left to
specialized providers who have the necessary skills and are able to realize
economies of scale.

 

These developments cause a gradual change in the roles and skills of today's
IT functions, which is also reflected in changed structures, processes,
methods and governance mechanisms. Accordingly, many new and interesting
questions arise on the social, organizational, technical and economic
aspects of strategic IT management and organizational change. Previous
knowledge as well as established models and theories of information systems
should be questioned and advanced against the background of these
developments.

 

Topics of Interest

 

o IT strategy and strategies for digital transformation

o Development and implementation of IT and digital strategies for
corporations as well as for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

o Organizational development for digital transformation

o Business IT alignment and integration of business and IT (business managed
IT)

o Strategic use and business value of IT

o Alignment of IT with the benefit for the company's customers and other
stakeholders

o IT innovation management and strategic effects of new technologies

o Ecosystem management: supplier management, IT outsourcing, cloud computing
and make-or-buy decisions

o IT governance, risk, compliance

o (Agile) project, project portfolio and change management

o IT service and application management

o Strategic management and change in enterprise architecture

o Management of software development and deployment as well as new
approaches for structuring the IT landscape (including through
microservices)

o IT management models, methods and tools

o Changing role of the CIO and new roles (e.g. Chief Digital Officer, Chief
Innovation Officer)

o Change of skills and competencies in IT

o Organizational structures of the IT function in change

o Establishment, expansion and evaluation of digital units and digital labs

o New organizational concepts such as bimodal IT, (Biz) DevOps or Scaling
Agile

o Strategic anchoring and management of the use of big data, blockchain,
data science and artificial intelligence

o Management of modern workplace technologies

o Resilience of IT and business continuity management

 

Associate Editors

 

Prof. Dr. Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen

Prof. Dr. Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg

Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann, University of Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Arne Buchwald, Vlerick Business School

Dr. Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington

Dr. Katharina Ebner, University of Hagen

Prof. Dr. Daniel Fürstenau, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Kazem Haki, University of St. Gallen

Dr. Robert Keller, University of Augsburg

Prof. Dr. Oliver Krancher, IT University of Copenhagen

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kude, ESSEC Business School

Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar, TU München

Prof. Dr. Christian Meske, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Remus, University of Innsbruck

Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Stefan Sackmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg

Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer, TU Dresden

Prof. Dr. Markus Westner, OTH Regensburg

Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener, TU Dresden

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Zarnekow, TU Berlin

Prof. Dr. Nico Wunderlich, IT University of Copenhagen

 

Important Dates

 

Submission System Open: 25.06.2020

Deadline for Submissions: 14.08.2020

Deadline for Reviews: 05.10.2020

Notification of Acceptance: 16.10.2020

Final Paper Submission: 16.11.2020

 

Further information on the conference can be found at
<https://wi2021.de/en/> https://wi2021.de/en/. 

 

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Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach

 

Professor of Information Systems and Strategic IT Management

Faculty of Law, Business Management and Economics

University of Bayreuth

 

Wittelsbacherring 10 | 95444 Bayreuth, GERMANY

Phone +49 921 55-4712 | Fax +49 921 55-84-4712

nils.urbach at uni-bayreuth.de <mailto:nils.urbach at uni-bayreuth.de>  |
www.sim.uni-bayreuth.de <http://www.sim.uni-bayreuth.de> 

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