Track 1: IS Strategies
Information systems (IS) enable innovative business concepts and models, but they also limit an organization's options for future developments. Whether and to what extent an organization will be able to realize their strategies and processes will largely depend on what their information systems will be able to support.
Therefore, the organization's IS strategy is of utmost importance. Service orientation plays an important role for several reasons. Firstly, many enterprises are shifting their business from producing and selling products to providing services, which is inconceivable without IS support. Secondly, service oriented IS architectures allow the development of flexible and adaptable systems. Thirdly, the market for IS services is undergoing a fundamental change. While previously most information systems were developed inhouse or by domestic software firms, nowadays the development and running of IS and the execution of entire business processes are offered by IT service providers in India, Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
Possible topics:
- Connection between enterprise strategies and service oriented IS strategies
- Contribution of IS strategy to a business's success
- The role of IS infrastructure (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM, PLM) within the IS strategy
- Methodology, flexibility and dynamics of IS strategies
- Strategies for outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring IS development
- The role of global IT service providers within the IS strategy
- Process, product and service quality of national and international IT service providers (e.g. CMMI)
Leading Committee: |
| Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Federführender) |
| Prof. Dr. Friedrich Roithmayr, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz |
| Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. August-Wilhelm Scheer, Universität des Saarlandes |
Program Committee: |
| Wolfgang Mathera, SAP Business School Vienna |
| Hubert Österle, Universität St. Gallen |
| Bodo Rieger, Universität Osnabrück |
| Susanne Robra-Bissantz, Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| Detlef Schoder, Universität zu Köln |
| Herman Sikora, Raiffeisen Rechenzentrum |
| Rolf Wigand, University of Arkansas |
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