[Members] CFP: AMCIS 2014 Agility and Sustainability Through Business Process Engineering

[Huysmans Philip]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA August 7-10, 2014.

Track: IT Enabled Organizational Agility
Minitrack: Agility and Sustainability Through Business Process Engineering


Modern enterprises face strong pressure to increase competitiveness, both in profit and not-for-profit organizations. Recently, an additional challenge has been posed by sustainability, which demands that IT contributes to efficient and smart systems and infrastructures for society while limiting their own resource consumption.

Such sustainability can be achieved at the level of business processes through concepts such as agility. As agility would allow the incorporation of subsequent changes, the obsoleteness of a system can be avoided. Notwithstanding the higher initial investment in resources to build such agile systems, fewer resources will be required when change happens. Since the benefits of such systems become visible only on the long term, sustainability will likely demand a balance between agility and more short-term requirements.

However, achieving this new balance requires the ability to change our currently implemented systems, both at the level of business processes and the supporting information systems, and research indicates that many strategic initiatives to achieve such agility fail for a diversity of reasons. This indicates that current approaches may be inadequate for bringing about the desired changes, and therefore limit the contribution organizations can make to sustainability. An approach based on systematic design and engineering of business processes and their supporting IT infrastructures may be required to succeed.

This minitrack explores new design and engineering approaches of business processes and their supporting IT-infrastructures, both from a theoretic and applied perspective. Such approaches could be classified under the term 'Business Process Engineering'. How do organizations use engineering concepts such as modularity and stability in order to optimize their organizational and IT artefacts? What is the relationship between concepts such as agility, stability and sustainability? Is agility used to build sustainable systems, or short-term throw-away implementations of IT systems? How does agility at the business process level affect IT agility and vice versa? How to measure or conceptualize agility, and how to formulate design principles for the modular structures of IT and organizational systems in order to cope more effectively with imposed changes?

Topics in this mini-track focus on agility in, for example, the areas listed below.

* enterprise systems
* enterprise engineering
* software development
* business processes
* enterprise architectures
* service design and identification
* business modeling
* case-based reasoning
* supply chain management
* business intelligence

Insightful, coherent and methodically sound studies of any type (theoretical, empirical or design science research) are equally encouraged.

To submit a paper, please follow the directions at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers
The final day for manuscript submissionsis March 1, 2014.
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