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Track Chairs:

Adam Mahmood, University of Texas El Paso,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jack Becker, University of North Texas,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Track Description:

With increasing success in the use of Strategic and Competitive Information Systems (SCIS) for generating business value and gaining competitive advantage, businesses are more and more interested in successful design, development, deployment, and use of these systems.  We would like to submit our track:  Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology (SUIT) for your consideration. The SUIT track will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their research on SCIS.  This track has been one of the most successful tracks in the past 5 years in AMCIS.  We look forward to participating in the AMCIS 2014 Conference in Savannah.

Mini-Tracks:


Information Systems Strategy and Implementation

D. Lance Revenaugh, Montana Tech University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Unquestionably, information systems (IS), along with its supporting information technology (IT), continue to increase in importance in nearly all organizations. As organizations scramble to develop and apply IT in new ways, the need to identify and implement an IS strategic plan becomes increasingly critical.

To date, however, implementations of IS strategies have not had high success rates. Though this has been true for years, much continues to be published on how to develop an IS strategy. Comparatively little research focuses on implementation. It is the purpose of this mini-track to focus on ways in which organizations effectively implement IS/IT strategies in their organizations.


Strategic and Competitive Applications of Cloud Computing

Faruk Arslan, The University of Texas at El Paso, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Aurelia Donald

Cloud computing provides the opportunity for strategic and competitive advantages by providing benefits such as high and rapid scalability, fault-tolerant services, and low-cost computing to the consumers and low maintenance cost to the providers. Despite the benefits, cloud computing users are concerned about security and privacy issues such as data leakage, and cloud computing infrastructure tampering.

This mini-track invites researchers who explore the strategic and competitive application of cloud computing to submit empirical, theoretical, conceptual, and case-based research studies. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Social Networks and Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Data management in Cloud Computing
  • Factors facilitating the adoption of Cloud Computing.
  • Economics of Cloud Computing.
  • Marketing strategies for Cloud Computing services.
  • Security and privacy for Cloud Computing services.
  • Cloud Computing services: risk assessment methodologies for organizations.
  • Cloud Computing IT governance strategies.
  • Design of effective information system policies for Cloud Computing.
  • New business models for Cloud Computing.
  • International and national legal framework for Cloud Computing services.
  • Cloud computing as a form of “green computing”.
  • Using Cloud computing as a part of an organization’s competitive strategy.
  • Cloud Computing and Digital Divide
  • Clouding Computing and education.

 
Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage

Jiban Khuntia, University of Colorado Denver, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Terence Saldanha
Abhishek Kathuria

Innovation in strategic process within and out of the boundaries of firms is an important to gain competitive advantage. Studies exploring the role of information systems in examining novel or innovative strategies is sparse in literature. This mini track motivates and solicits studies that focus on exploring how information systems enable any or several innovative strategies for firm performance. All levels and methodological use is welcome.


IT Governance and Architectures

Edimara Luciano, Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Matthias Goeken
Carsten Felden

In a context of a stronger relationship between IT and business, IT governance is a way to establish transparent control mechanisms that can drive and monitor the alignment of business and IT, company and IT performance as well the desirable behavior related to IT use. However, the framework of IT governance has no unique prescription. It is a set of processes to each organization because of the business context and intrinsic factors such as culture, leadership style, values and goals. Therefore, IT governance must be from the organization and to the organization, without a restrictive view that it refers exclusively to IT.

The minitrack will discuss the state of the art of methodological support, current practice, and related IT governance topics with a holistic focus and will debate new approaches to support IT governance. In addition, it is intended to analyze new challenges and empirical findings concerning the mentioned topics.


Strategic Use of IS and IT in Non-Profits and Social Enterprises

Richelle Oakley, The University of North Carolina - Greensboro, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Al Salaml
Lakshmi Iyer
Kathy White Loyd

Many organizations operate with a primary mission to serve the common good. Non-profit organizations, such as charities, focus on impacting the root causes of social problems in communities. Social enterprises aim to improve human well-being using traditional business methods and commercial strategies. Both organization types have various constraints that impact technology adoption, diffusion, and utilization towards efforts in achieving their strategic goals. Though minimally researched, there is significant potential to examine and improve how these organization types harness the power of information systems (IS) and technology (IT) to accelerate social impact. It is essential to focus on IS/IT utilization within non-profit and social enterprise organizations in order to continue developing a more in-depth understanding of strategic use and impact of IS/IT within these organizations. This mini-track solicits completed and research-in-progress papers addressing IS/IT issues in non-profits or social enterprises. Papers can be conceptual, theoretical, design, empirical, or case studies.


Information Security Management Systems

Fernando Parra, University of Texas at El Paso, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Laura Hall

Businesses all around the globe are increasingly concerned with the risks that exist today given the advent of new technologies that are dependent on an interconnected cyberspace. The possibility that events will interfere with the achievement of a firm’s objectives demands appropriate risk management, which encompasses the assessment of financial and operational exposure, data integrity and the development of containment strategies. Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) aim to provide an organization with a coherent set of policies, processes and systems to manage information asset risks, ensuring acceptable levels of information security risk. International standards have been established by both the security and the auditing community to provide guidance to organizations in establishing sound frameworks. Globalization, increased environmental risks and economic consequences merits further scholarly attention to phenomena surrounding Information Security Management Systems.
This minitrack solicits research studies that seek to explore diverse phenomena in connection with Information Security Management Systems such as their economic impact, security effectiveness and organizational impact.


Information Systems Evaluation Mini-Track Proposal

Timo Käkölä, University of Jyväskylä, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lori Obal, Southern California Edison, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">

Problems with information systems (IS) include overly lengthy development times, high implementation and maintenance costs and disappointing return on investment. Evaluation of IS systems becomes an increasingly important proposition. Difficulties of IS evaluation include increasing complexity of IS, unpredictability of IS benefits and difficulties in defining usable measurements that account for socio-technical issues.

Information systems evaluation also often focuses on the organizations and end users deploying information systems. Yet, information systems are increasingly designed and used in complex ecosystems where all stakeholders, including vendor organizations and their employees, are expected to create value for themselves, their clients, and for the ecosystems as a whole. Such IS evaluation methods and their relevant combinations that enable all relevant stakeholders to measure the value created and to create value together in the ecosystems are especially important to tackle the root causes for the above-mentioned problems (e.g., budget and schedule overruns and lower than expected ROI).

This mini-track will focus on Information Systems Evaluation with a goal of identifying factors to help measure, justify, and steer IS development and deployment initiatives, including investment decisions. The objective of this track is to publish research on concepts, methods, frameworks and case studies in IS evaluation.