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http://www.ecis2012.eu/tracks/enterprise-transformation.html

June 10-13, 2012, Barcelona, Spain (http://www.ecis2012.es)

** Deadline for paper submissions: December 1, 2011 **

** Submission details/procedure will be listed on http://www.ecis2012.es **

Modern day enterprises, be they businesses, organisations, or government agencies, are in a constant state of flux. Technological developments, changing markets, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions, et cetera are among the "usual suspects" requiring enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities.

Enterprises therefore need to transform themselves regularly to meet these new challenges, while senior management of these enterprises needs to make conscious decisions about analyzing their current position, the future design of "their" enterprise and the path to "get there". Such transformations cannot be contained to a small set of business objects, but instead range from changes in strategic positioning, goals and value proposition via changes of business processes, organizational structures and responsibilities, via changes to the supporting software systems and data, to changes of the underlying IT infrastructures.

Since many real world transformations are large, they need to be divided into smaller "chunks", typically programs and projects. This raises the need for a coordination mechanism between these "chunks" to safeguard that they all contribute towards the strategic goals set for the transformation as a whole. Even more, this coordination mechanism should also pay particular attention to the much-needed cohesion/alignment between different business objects.

Traditional project/programme management does not provide such coordination, as (1) it focuses on certain limited aspects such as budgets, resource use, or deadlines, and (2) it focuses on specific projects and programmes instead of “the whole”. As a result, projects are prone to conduct local optimisations within their own local parameters. As a consequence, the results of these projects may actually not contribute to (or even hamper) the overall transformation goals. An instrument that has been positioned as a means to coordinate enterprise transformations is enterprise architecture management.

The information systems (IS) discipline is commonly understood to be an integration discipline of people, IT artefacts, and

(organisational) tasks. From an integration perspective, "run IS" and "change IS" need to be differentiated because these lenses focus on different phenomena and artefacts. Enterprise transformation is clearly positioned in the "change IS" perspective. Many IS practitioners will find themselves working in a context of enterprise transformation. It is undeniable that in modern day enterprises, business strategy, business processes and their supporting information systems have nearly "fused". Therefore, it is useful to broaden the scope from analysing and designing specific artefact change (IS development, BPM) towards a more integral view, where business model change, business process change, and IT innovation are analysed and designed not only from an isolated project perspective, but rather from an enterprise-wide perspective.

Topics to be included

- Governance of enterprise transformations

- The role of design authorities

- The enterprise transformation process

- IT-enabled/inspired business transformation

- Outsourcing of business and/or IT processes

- Business-IT alignment

- Change management and/or cultural aspects of organisational transformation

- The role of the CIO in enterprise transformation

- Enterprise architecture management

- The IS perspective of enterprise splits and mergers

- Roles and skills in enterprise transformation

- Economics of enterprise transformation

Types of contributions

- Full research papers, research in progress, case studies on real-life cases.

Track chairs

- H.A. (Erik) Proper (Primary contact). Public Research Centre – Henri

  Tudor, Luxembourg and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  erik.proper@tudor.lu

- Frank Harmsen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands and Ernst &

  Young Advisory, The Netherlands frank.harmsen@nl.ey.com

- Pontus Johnson, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden pontus@ics.kth.se

- Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland robert.winter@unisg.ch

Associate editors

- Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

- Mathias Ekstedt, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

- Khaled Gaaloul, Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

- Florian Matthes, Technical University München, Germany

- Wolfgang Molnar, Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

- José Tribolet, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

- Axel Uhl, SAP Business Transformation Academy and UAS Northwestern,

  Switzerland, Switzerland

- John Ward, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

The Journal of Enterprise Transformation (JET) is a quarterly publication designed to provide a forum for original articles on trends, new findings, and ongoing research (both theory and application) related to enterprise transformation. JET brings together interdisciplinary research in management, industrial and systems engineering, information systems, organizational behavior, political science, economics, etc. JET provides a window to the future by publishing advanced thinking around enterprise transformation including:

• Enterprise change
• Enterprise architecting
• Theories of transformation
• Transformation methodologies
• Research methods
• Enterprise modeling and simulation
• Context-specific case studies of transformation
• Role of information technology in transformation
• Enterprise performance measurement
• Policy considerations

JET is essential reading for professionals and researchers doing enterprise-level planning, managing organizational transformation, or working in related research areas.

Link: Journal of Enterprise Transformation

Call for Papers as PDF

Modern organizations rely on complex configurations of distributed IT systems that implement key business processes, provide databases, data warehousing, and business intelligence. The current business environment requires organizations to comply with a range of externally defined regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and BASEL II.

Organizations need to be increasingly agile, robust, and be able to react to complex events, possibly in terms of dynamic reconfiguration.

In order to satisfy these complex requirements, large organizations are increasingly using Enterprise Modelling (EM) technologies to analyze their business units, processes, resources and IT systems, and to show how these elements satisfy the goals of the business. EM describes all aspects of the construction and analysis of organizational models and supports enterprise use cases including:

• Business Alignment: elements of a business are shown to meet its goals.
• Business Change Management: as-is and to-be models are used to plan how a business is to be changed.
• Governance and Compliance: models are used to show that processes are in place to comply with regulations.
• Acquisitions and Mergers: models are used to analyze the effect of combining two or more businesses.
• Enterprise Resource Planning: models are used to analyze the use of resources within a business and to show that given quality criteria are achieved.

Emerging technologies, methods and techniques currently proposed for EM include:

• Modelling Languages: including UML; SysML; ArchiMate; MODAF; TOGAF.
• Enterprise Views: stakeholder identification; multiple linguistic communities.
• Enterprise Patterns: an organization is shown to conform to general (possibly executable) organizational principles.
• Event Driven Architectures: constructing enterprise architectures based on complex events.
• Enterprise Simulation: executing configurations of organizational units in order to analyse and verify performance.

General Author Information

The Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) invites original, high-quality submissions for its theme issue on Enterprise Modelling  (EM). The aim of the theme issue is to bring together a collection of articles that describe a range of EM technologies and approaches in order to provide the reader with a single resource that captures the state of art. The theme issue will include an introduction to the field, an overview of the leading-edge languages and technologies used to undertake EM, and in-depth analysis of techniques or approaches for specific use-cases of EM.

Papers must be written in a scientifically rigorous manner with adequate references to related work.

Submitted papers must not be simultaneously submitted in an extended form or in a shortened form to other journals or conferences. It is however possible to submit extended versions of previously published work if less than 75% of the content already appeared in a non-journal publication, or less than 40% in a journal publication. Please see the SoSyM Policy Statement on Plagiarism for further conditions.

Submitted papers do not need to adhere to a particular format or page limit, but should be prepared using font “Times New Roman” with a font size no smaller than 11 pt, and with 1.5 line spacing. Please consult the SoSyM author information for submitting papers.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

• Word (.doc, without macros)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• PostScript (.ps, special fonts must be embedded)
• PDF (saved as readable in version 5.0 or later)

Submit your work using the online system manuscript central:

• In step 1, select “Special Section Paper” as the manuscript type and select “Dr. Bernhard Rumpe” as the “Editor-in-Chief” (EIC).
• In step 4, add: Balbir Barn (+  b.barn@mdx.ac.uk), Alan Brown (+ awbrown@us.ibm.com), Tony Clark (+  t.n.clark@ mdx.ac.uk) or  Florian Matthes (+  matthes@in.tum.de)  as an editor and choose “Designate as Preferred Editor”.
• In step 5, make sure field “Cover Letter” includes the line: “Submission for Theme Issue on EM”.

The track Enterprise Transofrmation at MKWI 2012 also accepts contributions in English. However, the call for papers and the conference web page are in German.

Read the full call for papers.

The 3rd Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation working conference (PRET 2011) will take place on September 6, 2011 in Luxembourg as the industrial track of the 13^th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011). See here for the Call for Papers.

The deadline for paper submissions is March 31, 2011.