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CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2010)
in conjunction with
13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2010)
Berlin, Germany
May 3-5, 2010
/bis2010/wscfp.php?ws=bita2010
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Deadline for submissions: (Extended Deadline!) March 8 (11:59pm CET), 2010
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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 but unfortunately many organisations don’t have proper
instruments (methods, patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this.
Enterprise modelling and business process management are two areas
belonging to a tradition where the mission is to improve business
practice and business and IT alignment. In this tradition the alignment
process usually is manifested in taking a business from one state into
another improved state, i.e. a transformation of the business and its
supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. A challenge in
business and IT alignment is to move beyond this narrow focus on one
tradition or technology. We need to be aware of and able to deal with a
number of dimensions of the enterprise architecture and their relations
in order to create alignment. Examples of such dimensions are:
organisational structures, strategies, business models, work practices,
processes, and IS/IT structures. Among the concepts that deserve special
attention in this context is IT governance. An effective IT governance
aligns IT investments with overall business priorities, determines who
makes the IT decisions and assigns accountability for the outcomes. 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 strong
interest in business and IT alignment. We would like to invite
researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit
original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage
broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for business and
IT alignment, including IT governance subjects. Specific focus will be on
practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we encourage submission of
case study and experiences papers.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
* Challenges in business and IT alignment
* Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
* Business/ IT alignment through BPM
* Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement -
methodologies and best practices
* Business value of business and IT alignment
* Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT
alignment approaches
* Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design,
implementation, management and improvement
* Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
* The relationship between BPM and enterprise architecture
* Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment
initiatives
* IT governance as a mean for alignment
* Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and
structure, change management and leadership strategies
* Design thinking in business and IT alignment
* Practices of business and IT alignment
* Experience reports and case studies
SUBMISSION
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
Submissions to BITA 2010 have to be made by using the submission
systems EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bita2010.
Proceedings of BITA 2010 workshop will be published by Springer as
part of the BIS conference volume in Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Papers submitted need to follow
LNBIP formatting guidelines: available from
http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0.
Papers shall not have more than twelve pages (including figures, tables
and appendices). Longer papers will not be included in workshop
proceedings.
The proceedings will be printed after the conference. However,
workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS
organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly
before the conference.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
At least one author of each paper needs to register for the
conference for the paper to be included in proceedings.
Workshop registration entitles registrants to participate in the
conference, as well as in all workshops and tutorials held in conjunction
with it.
IMPORTANT DATES
* (Extended Deadline!)
March 8 (11:59pm CET), 2010 - submission deadline for papers
* March 30, 2010 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* April 12, 2010 - submission of final papers
* May 3-5, 2010 - the workshop
ORGANIZERS
* Jönköping University ()
CHAIRS
* Ulf Seigerroth
* Kurt Sandkuhl
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)
* Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University, Sweden
* Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden
* Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
* Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
* Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
* Mathias Ekstedt, KTH, Sweden
* Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden
* Terry Halpin, LogicBlox, Australia
* Lennart Holmberg, , Sweden
* Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* Håvard Jørgensen, Commitment AS, Norway
* Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
* John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
* Marc Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands
* Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
* Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Janis Stirna, KTH, Sweden
* Anne Persson, Skövde University, Sweden
* Mikael Lind, Borås University, Sweden
* John Ward, Cranfield University, UK
* Joe Peppard, Cranfield School of Management, UK
* Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS, Russia
* Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden
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