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
Jens Ohlsson’s Licentiate Seminar
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.
Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management
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
Open Seminar with Dr. Dragos Vieru
On October 24, 2014 at DSV, Dr. Dragos Vieru from Distance Learning University of Quebec (Télé-Université du Québec), Canada has given an open seminar regarding “Working Under Grey Skies: Information Systems Development and Social Mechanisms in a Post-merger Context”. The seminar was organized by the IT Management group within IS unit at DSV. The slides of the presentation are available here Presentation-Dragos Vieru
A short description about our guest speaker and a picture from the seminar you could find below.
Speaker:
Dragos Vieru is an Assistant Professor at Distance Learning University of Quebec. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology at HEC Montréal and a MSc in MIS from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal. His research interests are in the areas of IT-enabled organizational change, knowledge sharing, and IT governance. Dragos Vieru has published papers in International Journal of Information Management (journal ranked ‘A’ in Information and Library Sciences category), the International Journal of Social & Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology and in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. He is chair of the minitrack (Organizational and Social Dynamics in Information Technology mini-track) at the AMCIS and co-chair of the same minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). He has over 15 years of professional experience in IT project management in the health care industry.
Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48)
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Ivan Nunes, Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi, entitled: “Does Organizational Culture Matter in IT Outsourcing Relationships?“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
A paper written by Mohamed El Mekawy, Lazar Rusu, Erik Perjons, Karl-Johan Sedvall and Murat Ekici entitled: “From Theory to Practice: Barriers to Business-IT Alignment in Organizations Acting in Sweden“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is a top ranked conference in Information Systems and is ranked “A” according to The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA) (http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806).
The publisher of the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is IEEE Computer Society: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/diglib.htm.
Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of AMCIS 2014, HICSS-47, PACIS 2014 and CAiSE 2014
A number of five papers written by the members of IT management group have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of top conferences in information systems area (AMCIS 2014, HICSS-47, PACIS 2014 and CAiSE 2014).
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han and entitled: “The Role of Culture in IT Governance“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014), August 7-10, 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han (Stockholm University, Sweden), entitled: “The Influence of Culture on IT Governance: A Literature Review“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47), January 6-9, 2014, Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
A paper written by Mohamed El Mekawy, Lazar Rusu and Erik Perjons and entitled: “The Impact of Business-IT Alignment on Organizational Culture “ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), June 24-28, 2014, Chengdu, China.
A paper written by Jens Ohlsson, Shengnan Han, Paul Johannesson and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Developing a Method for Prioritizing Business Process Improvement Initiatives“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), June 24-28, 2014, Chengdu, China.
A paper written by Jens Ohlsson, Shengnan Han, Paul Johannesson, Fredrik Carpenhall and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Prioritizing Business Processes Improvement Initiatives: The Seco Tools Case“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2014), 16-20 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Papers accepted for publication in international journals
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han (Stockholm University, Sweden), entitled: “Culture Influence on IT Governance: What We Have Learned “ has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG), IGI Global. The IJITBAG (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-business-alignment-governance/1136) is a journal that publishes leading research that focuses on IT management and IT governance issues.
A paper written by Godfried B. Adaba (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Lazar Rusu (Stockholm University, Sweden) entitled: “E-trade Facilitation in Ghana: A Capability Approach Perspective “ has been accepted for publication in The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJIDSC), City University of Hong Kong. The EJIDSC (https://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc) is a top journal in ICT4D research area that focuses on information systems in developing countries.
Call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”
Here is a call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management” (Editors: Shang Gao and Lazar Rusu) scheduled to be published by IGI Global in 2014. The book objective is to brings together the latest academic research and professional practice, covering aspects related to modern techniques for successful IT project management.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Virtual project management
- Agile project management
- Project success
- Risk management
- Outsourcing or distributed projects
- Project management methodologies
- Project quality metrics or standards
- IT project governance
- Project controlling practices
- Best practices in IT outsourced projects
- Relationships in IT outsourced projects
- Project lifecycle management
- Modeling approach for IT project management
- Managing IT outsourced projects
- Coordination of IT projects
- Theories used in IT project management
- Pedagogical issues on modern techniques for IT project management
Important Dates:
December 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
January 15, 2014: Notification of Acceptance
February 28, 2014: Full Chapter Submission
April 30, 2014: Review Results Returned
June 15, 2014: Final Chapter Submission
July 15, 2014: Final Deadline
For more information about this call for chapters please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1100