[AISWorld] CFP: 14th International Workshop on Business and IT-Alignment

[Kurt Sandkuhl]

Call for Papers

14th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2024)

in conjunction with
23rd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2024
https://bir2024.vse.cz/

11 - 13 September 2024, Prague University of Economics and Business – Prague, Czech Republic

Submission deadline: June 24, 2024
Proceedings: CEUR online volume + CSIMQ journal for best papers (indexed in scopus)

Aim and focus of the workshop
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises. Still, unfortunately, many organisations don’t have the proper instruments (methods, tools, patterns, best practices, etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modeling, enterprise architecture, and business process management are three areas of business informatics traditions, with the mission of improving business practice and business and IT alignment (BITA). BITA is often manifested through the transition of taking an enterprise from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of the enterprise and it's supporting IT into something that is regarded as better.
Recent digitalisation and transformation developments have brought new dimensions to BITA, where BITA has become important in relation to smart products and smart business ecosystems. A continuous challenge with BITA is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to be able to deal with the enterprise's multiple dimensions to create alignment between business and IT. Such dimensions include organisational structures, strategies, architectures, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. IT governance is also a dimension that traditionally has had a strong impact on BITA. There are ordinarily three governance mechanisms that an enterprise needs to have in place: 1) decision-making structures, 2) alignment process, and 3) formal communications.
This workshop aims to bring together people who have an interest in BITA. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage a broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for BITA. The specific focus is on business practices and IT alignment, i.e., we encourage submitting case studies and experience papers.

Workshop Homepage: https://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/veranstaltungen/selbst-organisierte-workshops/bita-2023-1/

Topics
The following topics are of relevance for the workshop:
•             Business and IT alignment and smart enterprises
•             Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
•             Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
•             Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement - methodologies and best practices
•             Business and IT alignment and digital transformation
•             Business and IT alignment and smart products
•             Business and IT alignment through BPM
•             Business value of business and IT alignment
•             Challenges in business and IT alignment
•             Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives
•             Design thinking in business and alignment
•             Enterprise architecture management (EAM) for business and IT alignment
•             Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment
•             Experience reports and case studies
•             Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies
•             IT governance as a mean for alignment
•             Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement
•             Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches
•             Practices of business and IT alignment

Submission guidelines
Please use the EasyChair conference system for paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bita2024
•             Regular papers should have a length of 10-12 "standard" pages, including references.
•             Short papers should have a length of 6-9 "standard" pages, including references.
•             Authors must use the CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published with CEUR-WS.
•             The uniform style for the proceedings is 1-column. The CEUR-ART styles can be found in the https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip file.
All accepted papers will be published in CEUR workshop proceedings. Best papers will receive an invitation to the open access journal CSIMQ (https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/) which is indexed in Scopus.

Important dates
•             Paper Submission: June 24, 2024
•             Notification of Acceptance: July 24, 2024
•             Camera Ready Submission: August 21, 2024
•             Workshop Date: September 11, 2024

Organizers and chairs
•             Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University (Chair)
•             Kurt Sandkuhl, Rostock University (Co-chair)

Program committee
•             Per Backlund, University of Skövde, Sweden
•             Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy
•             Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock, Germany
•             Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
•             Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
•             Aurona Gerber, University of Pretoria, South Africa
•             Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
•             Yanbo Han, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
•             Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
•             Björn Johansson, Linköping University, Sweden
•             Christina Keller, Lund University, Sweden
•             Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
•             Hasan Koç, Berlin International University, Germany
•             Michael Leyer, University of Marburg, Germany
•             Andreas Martin, FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland
•             Patrick Mikalef, NTNU Trondheim, Norway
•             Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
•             Gert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
•             Rainer Schmidt, Munich University, Germany
•             Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS, Russia
•             Jonas Sjöstrom, Boras University, Sweden
•             Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russia
•             Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
•             Matthias Wißotzki, Wismar University, Germany
•             Wieslaw Wolny, University of Economics Katowice, Poland
•             Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany


Kurt Sandkuhl
Professor of Business Information Systems / Wirtschaftsinformatik
The University of Rostock, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Konrad-Zuse-Haus, Albert-Einstein-Str. 22, 18059 Rostock
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