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PRET 2010 -The 2nd Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation working conference

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Date
  • 2010-11-11
Location
  • Delft
  • Netherlands
Organizer
  • Frank Harmsen
Series
Topics
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Modern day enterprises, be they businesses, organizations, or government departments, are in a constant state of flux. New technologies, new markets, globalization, mergers, acquisitions, etcetera are among the "usual suspects" which require enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities. Most information systems practitioners will find themselves working in a context of enterprise transformation. One could even go as far as to claim that a business oriented perspective on information systems is really about enterprise transformation, where enterprise transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from enterprise engineering, enterprise modeling, enterprise architecture, and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise transformation requires a close interaction between practice and academia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers. 


The PRET working conferences are set up as a one day event in such a way that it attracts an audience from both industry and academia. PRET 2010 is a continuation of the PRET 2009 working conference which was organized as the industrial track at the 2009 CAiSE conference. The PRET 2010 working conference will be organized as part of the enterprise engineering week, and will be co-located with PoEM 2010 and TEAR 2010 in Delft.

Event Format

PRET is a highly interactive event. The conference will be organized at a venue that stimulates discussion and open exchange of ideas and experiences. In addition to highly interactive paper sessions the event will include a number of parallel think-tank sessions focusing on various topics, aiming for further development of issues and directions shared between practice and academia.

Programme

Of 24 submitted chapters, 9 have been accepted by the program committee. This has resulted in an excellent program for November 11th, which can be found here.
Tracks are highly interactive: authors give a short presentation, which is followed by a discussion. Each track is concluded by a wrap-up regarding the track topic.

Publication

Analogous to PRET 2009, the proceedings of the PRET 2010 working conference will be organised in terms of a Springer's LNBIP series proceedings consisting of a small number of longer papers of about 20 pages on average.

Location

The PRET 2010 working conference will be held on the 11th of November, as part of the Enterprise Engineering Week at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands from the 9th of November to the 12th of November. Information about the venue can be found here.

Call for chapters

A PDF version of the call for chapters is available here.

Submission

Paper types

Papers should reflect the mission of PRET, which is bringing together academia and the industry regarding the indicated topics. Papers should stimulate the discussion and the synergy between these two “worlds”, with the ultimate objective of improving the field of enterprise transformation. Typical papers describe: real-life case studies, challenges from industry for the academic world, practical applications of theory and/or quantitative research results regarding enterprise transformation. Paper submissions from industry as well as from young researchers (MSc. graduates, young PhD researchers) are strongly encouraged. Research results can be described in an elaborated way, since the typical paper length PRET is aiming for is 25-30 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings as a chapter.

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of proposed chapters, as well as the final chapters, should be submitted in PDF format via the submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pret2010. Abstracts should be about 3 pages long. Chapter proposals should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to the PRET themes as discussed in the topics section. Work submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the LNBIP website.

Organization

Organizing committee

  • Chair: Frank Harmsen, Ernst & Young Advisory and Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  • Knut Grahlmann, Ernst & Young Advisory, The Netherlands
  • Erik Proper, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxemburg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Bas van der Raadt, Ernst & Young Advisory, The Netherlands
  • Frank Schalkwijk, Atos Origin, The Netherlands

Steering committee

  • Frank Harmsen, Ernst & Young Advisory and Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  • Erik Proper, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxemburg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Registration

The baseline registration fee for the EE Week is €125.
Early bird registration fee for PRET 2010 is €75 (until Oct 25, 2010).
Regular registration fee for PRET 2010 is €125 (after Oct 25, 2010).

Receptions on Nov 10 and 11, 2010 and a lunch on Nov 11, 2010 are included.

Payments can be fulfilled by bank transfer or credit card. When using credit card payment, a 4% surcharge will be added to the total fee.
The registration form can be found here, which can be mailed to Irma Haerkens (i.haerkens@cs.ru.nl) or faxed to +31-84-8394596.

Topics

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
  • Architecture governance
  • Business-IT alignment
  • Business process modelling
  • Collaborative and/or participative modelling
  • Cultural aspects of transformation
  • Design and implementation of CIO Offices
  • Enterprise architecture management
  • Enterprise engineering
  • Enterprise modelling
  • Enterprise modelling languages
  • Enterprise ontologies
  • Enterprise splitting and allying
  • ERP implementation
  • Design authorities
  • IT-enabled business transformation
  • Managing/governing enterprise evolution
  • Organisational change
  • Outsourcing of business and/or IT processes
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Psychological and philosophical aspects
  • Requirements management
  • Roles and skills in enterprise transformation
  • Service-oriented architecture (wrt the enterprises and/or its applications)
  • Simulation of enterprise designs and models
  • Stakeholder management
  • Technology impact assessment "Game changing technologies"
  • Transformation, program and project management

Program Committee

  1. Anne Persson, University of Skövde, Sweden
  2. Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  3. Bas van Gils, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands
  4. Bas van der Raadt, Ernst & Young, The Netherlands
  5. Erik Proper, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxemburg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  6. Frank Harmsen, Ernst & Young and University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
  7. Gregor Engels, Capgemini sd&m and University of Paderborn, Germany
  8. Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  9. Hans Mulder, VIA Groep and University of Antwerp, Belgium
  10. Inge van de Weerd, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  11. Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  12. Jan Hoogervorst, Sogeti and University of Antwerp, The Netherlands
  13. Jan Mendling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  14. Johan Versendaal, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  15. Marc Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands
  16. Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
  17. Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  18. Patricia Lago, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  19. Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
  20. Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  21. Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  22. Sietse Overbeek, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  23. Stefan Strecker, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
  24. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Important Dates

  • Deadline for abstracts for second tranche: April 30
  • Deadline for papers: June 27th July 4th
  • Notification of acceptance: August 15th
  • Camera-ready copies: August 29th
  • Enterprise engineering week: November 9th - November 12th
  • PRET: November 11th

Sponsors

With support from:

Past Events

2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Proceedings can be found here. Notes of the discussions can be found here.