News and Events
On February 19, 2016 our colleague Parisa Aasi has defended successfully her Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Organizational Culture and Structure Influence on Information Technology Governance”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Parisa for her achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Call for book chapters: “Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations – Theory and Practice”
Editors:
Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, Sweden
Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Publisher:
The book is scheduled to be published by Springer International Publishing AG, in Integrated Series in Information Systems. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.springer.com/series/6157. The publication is anticipated to be released in 2017.
Introduction:
The research in IT governance in public organizations has already captured the attention of researchers, policy makers and IT practitioners and different research studies have been reported in this topic both in developed and developing countries.
The researchers studying IT governance in public organizations have encountered different challenges that are mainly due to the differences between political, administrative, and practices in these organizations. Some of these challenges are related to governance processes and policy-making mechanisms change due to the application of ICT-enabled innovation. Moreover, the dilemma is actually related to governance and alignment issues between policy ICT-enabled initiatives and the diverse stakeholders they involve. Furthermore, public organizations are now very concern to make more steps towards digitalization and transform their services. Therefore this requires from organization’s management to focus on having effective IT governance in their organization that as result will enable IT alignment and will create business value from IT investments. For this purpose public organization’s management has given a special attention to IT Governance that has growth in importance.
The book’s primary contribution will be to highlight the actual trends and challenges in research in IT governance in public organizations with the aim to report innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices in this research topic.
Topics of interest:
In particular, contributions will mainly include but are not limited to the followings: IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms in public organizations; IT alignment in public organizations; digital governance in public organizations; critical success factors in IT governance implementation in public organizations; IT leadership in public organizations; ICT-enabled governance innovation in public organizations; theoretical models for studying IT governance and IT alignment in public organizations; and practices of IT governance implementation in public organizations.
Submission Procedure:
Full book chapters (15-20 pages) are expected by May 15, 2015. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Submissions of the book chapters will be done through easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itgov2017
The manuscripts will be submitted in a word format and the contributors should follow the Springer guidelines for formatting the book chapters. More information about this issue you could find here:http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/990/data/v7/Manuscript+guidelines+for+English+books
Important Dates:
May 15, 2016 Full Chapter Submission
August 15, 2016 Review Results to Authors
September 15, 2016 Revised Chapter Submission
For any questions concerning the book please contact the editors:
Professor Lazar Rusu
Stockholm University
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
Borgarfjordsgatan 12, P.O. Box 7003, 164 07 Kista, Sweden
Email: lrusu@dsv.su.se
Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
College of Management of Technology (CDM) – CSI
ODY 1 16 (Odyseea) Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: gianluigi.viscusi@epfl.ch
Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan is a PhD student from Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland (http://www.kozminski.edu.pl/en/). During the next five months (more exactly till June 30, 2016) Gideon will work as visiting researcher in IT Management group at DSV. Gideon’s research work will be in IT alignment with a focus on public organizations in a developing country. He will be located in the office spaces of IS unit. Gideon has a Master in Computer and Systems Sciences and a Master in Business Administration both from Stockholm University, Sweden.
A paper written by Najla Al Qassimi and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “IT Governance in a Public Sector Organization in a Developing Country: A Case Study of a Governmental Organization”, has been published in Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 64, pp.450-456, 2015.
A paper written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Lazar Rusu, Erik Perjons, Karl-Johan Sedvall, and Murat Ekici and entitled: “Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden”, has been accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Article 3, 2015.
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu, and Shengnan Han and entitled: “The Influence of Organizational Culture on IT Governance Performance: Case of The IT Department in a Large Swedish Company“, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49), January 5-8, 2016, Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
The 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016) is one the prestigious conference in information systems area and on next year this conference will be held from 12 to 15 of June, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey (http://www.ecis2016.eu/en/default.asp). As co-chair of IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track I would like to invite researchers who are interested in this track area to submit their papers till November 27, 2015. For more information about this track please access the following link: http://www.ecis2016.eu/files/downloads/Tracks/T19.pdf
A paper written by Carolina Alaceva and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Barriers in achieving business/IT alignment in a large Swedish company: What we have learned?“, has been accepted for publication in Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, (In Press), doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.007.
A paper written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Lazar Rusu and Erik Perjons and entitled: “An evaluation framework for comparing business-IT alignment models: A tool for supporting collaborative learning in organizations“, has been accepted for publication in Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, (In Press), doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.016.
A paper written by Fredrik Larsson, Lazar Rusu and Parisa and entitled: “Organizational Structure in IT Governance: A Case Study of an IT Governance Implementation Project“, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2015), August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico, USA.
On March 9, 2015 our colleague Jens Ohlsson has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives by Prioritizing and Categorizing Business Processes”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Jens for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Shang Gao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China and Lazar Rusu from Stockholm University, Sweden are the editors of a recently published book by IGI Global that is entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”. The purpose of this book is to examine how modern techniques influence IT project management and their role in managing successfully IT projects. The book includes research studies that are examining important fields of IT project management like: agile project management, IT project alignment, strategic software project governance, risk in global IT projects, distributed IS development projects to mention only a few of them. The target audiences of this book are researchers and professionals working in the fields of project management, information systems, and IT project management. For more information about this book please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/book/modern-techniques-successful-project-management/118238?camid=3v11
