Call for Papers

Pre-ICIS 2012 Academic Workshop

and

MIS Quarterly Executive December 2013 Special Issue

How to Succeed in a World of Big Data

 Sponsored by the Society for Information Management and MIS Quarterly Executive

 

Saturday, December 15, 2012, 9:30 – 5:00

The Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, FL

Download the agenda here.

Register for the workshop on the ICIS registration page for ancillary events HERE.

(The Workshop is listed as SIM Academic Workshop.  You can register for the Workshop as part of your ICIS Conference registration or separately.  Early Registration for ICIS ends October 23.)

You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the pre-ICIS 2012 SIM Academic Workshop to be held from 9:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012, at the Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, FL. This year’s workshop will include invited and competitive presentations that focus on the theme: How to Succeed in a World of Big Data.

For this pre-ICIS workshop, and for the 2013 MISQE Special Issue, we invite researchers to explore the implications of big data for management strategies and practices, with an emphasis on how IT and business leaders can drive business value from their digital information.  The intent is to examine the new business opportunities and management challenges resulting from growing volumes of structured and unstructured data, generated both internal and external to the enterprise.

We especially encourage submissions based on in-depth case studies, analyses of key management practices, and field-based insights on current trends. Submissions viewed most favorably will be those that provide interesting frameworks, rich illustrations and examples of practices that can be applied by other executives. Papers addressing topics related to business intelligence, business analytics, data management or big data, could focus on (but are not limited to) the following themes:

• Innovative business uses of data
• Examples of predictive approaches and their achieved benefits
• Cultural and behavioral issues raised by big data
• Governance practices contributing to delivering value through data
• Deriving business value from social media data
• "Working smarter” practices that help people use data effectively
• Big data pitfalls—and how to avoid them
• Special challenges associated with non-traditional forms of data
• Data strategy development
• Implications of mobility for exploiting big data
• Organizational approaches to developing and sustaining big data skills and capabilities
• Implications for individual and organizational decision-making processes

 

Workshop Deadlines:

Sept. 15, 2012: Submit an abstract of no more than 3 single-spaced pages of text and up to 2 figures

Oct. 5, 2012: Notification of workshop acceptance with preliminary editorial feedback

All submissions should be sent to all the Workshop and Special Issue Co-Chairs:

           Jeanne Ross, Director of MIT CISR and MISQE Senior Editor, jross@mit.edu

           Barb Wixom, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, bwixom@virginia.edu

          Cynthia Beath, Professor Emeritus, UT Austin, cbeath@mail.utexas.edu

 

Workshop registration information will be posted on the SIM web site: www.simnet.org. For registration questions, contact the SIM Academic Liaison: Mary Sumner, msumner@siue.edu

Typical workshop fee (including lunch): $100-$125

Special Issue of MIS Quarterly Executive - December 2013

We are pleased to announce that the December 2013 issue of MISQ Executive will be a special issue dedicated to academic research on the theme of this workshop. Authors do not have to submit to or attend the ICIS workshop to submit to the special issue.  Papers will be submitted to a regular MISQE review process under the guidance of the special issue editors.

Submissions to MISQE should be written for an IT executive readership and should describe practice-oriented research findings and guidelines. All authors are encouraged to look at prior published MISQE research articles for presentation models. All prior articles can be downloaded free by AIS and SIM members at: www.misqe.org. AIS members can also access MISQE articles via the AIS eLibrary.

 

Important Dates:

Special Issue full paper submission deadline:  February 15, 2013

First editorial review sent to authors:  April 15, 2013

 

Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: June 15, 2013

Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: July 15, 2013

 

Final submission of accepted papers deadline: September 1, 2013

MISQE publication: December 2013

 

Note: Authors of accepted SIM Academic Workshop abstracts are invited to submit a full paper by January 1, 2013, to receive preliminary editorial feedback with specific suggestions for developing their ideas prior to the special issue full paper deadline, which is open to all researchers.