CALL FOR PAPERS
9TH European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2012)
Munich, Germany, 7 – 8 June, 2012 www.emcis.org
‘Developing Scalable Information Systems in Turbulent Times’

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Trevor Wood-Harper, Manchester Business School, UK
Prof. Sung Joo Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Prof. Dr. Michael Koch, UniBwM – Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

Conference: June, 7-8, 2012
PhD Consortium: June, 8, 2012

Venue: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich http://www.kempinski.com/en/munich

www.emcis.org

The 9th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS), is held in Munich this year. Being one of the premier conferences in Europe and Middle Eastern region the conference theorises and discusses technical, organisational, business and social issues in the application, performance, and evaluation of Information Technology especially in current turbulent and challenging environments.
EMCIS 2012 offers a number of presentations and workshops covering several themes across parallel tracks proposing a diverse breadth of discussions and possible solutions regarding current global concerns. Accepted papers will be fully refereed and electronically published in the online conference proceedings ensuring knowledge sharing across the wider research community.

Conference Tracks:
Track – Enterprise Systems in Organisations
Track – Very Large Business Applications
Track – Production & Supply Chain Management Track – Citizen Oriented eGovernment Services Track – Technical Issues in Technology Management Track – eGovernment & IT in Public Sector
Track – IT in Healthcare
Track – Social and Culture Issues of Information Systems
Track – Management and Organisational Issues in Information systems Track – E-Business, E-commerce and E-Marketing
Track – E-learning and Knowledge Management
Track – Accounting Information Systems
Track – Sustainable Information systems

Important Dates:
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2012
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE TO AUTHORS: February 21, 2012
CAMERA READY COPY: March 15, 2012

Conference Chairs:
Prof. Ralf Klischewski, German University in Cairo, Egypt
Holger Schrödl, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim, Brunel University, UK

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Liebe Studierende der Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik,

im kommenden Trimester (WT 2012) planen wir in der Forschungsgruppe Kooperationssysteme ein Seminar zu “Gamification” und veranstalten hierzu am Dienstag nächste Woche einen kurzen Infoabend, zu dem wir alle interessierten Bachelor- und Master-Studenten herzlich einladen wollen.

Unter “Gamification” versteht man die Nutzung von Konzepten, wie sie aus Spielen bekannt sind (sogenannte Game Mechanics), in anderen Anwendungsbereichen – z.B. bei Business Software oder im E-Commerce – um eine hohe Motivation zum Mit- oder Weiterspielen zu erreichen. Beispiele dafür sind u.a. Badges, die man sich auf Websites wie foursquare.com verdienen kann, oder auch nur einfache Top-Listen / Leader-Boards derer, die besonders viel zu einem Wissensmanagementsystem beigetragen haben.

In diesem Seminar wollen wir verschiedene Themen rund um Gamification zusammentragen. Wir werden dabei verschiedene Anwendungsbereiche beleuchten und einen Schwerpunkt im Bereich der Online Communities (speziell zur Sammlung und zum Austausch von Wissen) legen.

Das Seminar richtet sich gleichermaßen an Bachelor- und Master-Studenten der Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Im Zuge des Seminars werden wir eine neue Art der nachvollziehbaren Bewertung im Sinne der Gamification erproben: Die Bewertung basiert auf einer Liste von Aktivitäten, die Sie im Lauf des Seminars durchführen werden. Jede Aktivität wird mit einer definierten maximalen Anzahl an Punkten bewertet. Je nach Qualität der Ausführung der Aktivität / des Ergebnisses erhalten Sie zwischen 0 und der vollen Punktzahl. Aus ihren Gesamtpunkten ergibt sich dann die Note im Seminar.

Am Dienstag, den 13. Dezember 2011, können Sie sich ab 18:45 Uhr im Seminarraum des Instituts 2 (41/400/2411) unverbindlich über die genauen Themen des Seminar informieren.

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Call For Papers

Special Issue „Enterprise 2.0 / Social Computing in Corporations“
„it – Information Technology“ (www.it-information-technology.de)

With the Web 2.0 we have seen broad participation coming to the Internet. The Web evolved from a platform where only few people publish for a large number of readers to a platform where everybody can contribute.

Increasing participation and engagement is also an issue in corporations – particularly in the field of knowledge management. In addition to making a larger body of knowledge available, providing means to participate and thereby to be visible in the corporation can also help to improve the motivation of employees.

Since supporting participation and visibility in the corporation is closely related to supporting social interaction, the term Social Software was coined for the corresponding support software. Under the umbrella of the terms Social Computing (in Corporations) or Enterprise 2.0 science and industry are currently experimenting with the use of Social Software in organizations – to support participation of employees and make knowledge available when needed.

In this special issue we want to present the current state of the discussion and research on this topic (Enterprise 2.0) in selected contributions.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• basic methods and procedures
• technological trends
• new applications
• technopolitical aspects
• sociotechnical design parameters
• evaluation, success factors
• questions of standardization

Contributions should be written in English and should not be longer than 6 pages (each page about 5.000 characters without figures). See the “Instructions for Contributors” for more details. instructions_for_contributors.pdf

Deadlines:

• 31.12.2011 Title and short summary of article to guest editor (you can also contact the guest editor in advance to check if a topic might fit)
• 20.1.2012 Feedback from guest editor if proposed article is fitting
• 15.5.2012 Manuscript of article for review
• 15.7.2012 Feedback to manuscript from guest editor
• 31.8.2012 Camera Ready final version of article
• Publication planned in Issue 6 / 2012

Contact information of guest editor:
Michael Koch
Bundeswehr University Munich
E-Mail: michael.koch@unibw.de
Tel: +49 89 6004-3777

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In the following week the 22th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2011) is taking place in Sydney. Even though our research group was quite present at Australian conferences in the last years (ACIS, PACIS, Communities & Technologies) this year’s ACIS is special for us.

First of all, ACIS 2011 is organized by the University of Sydney with whom we have started a research cooperation around Social Media In Large Enterprises in 2010. Thus, knowing the venue from our cooperation meetings, we are looking forward to see Sydney Uni hosting this prestigious event.

Secondly, we are co-organizing a track on Enterprise 2.0 in which 6 papers (chosen out of 18 submissions) will be presented on the second day of the conference. Together with our cooperation partner Deloitte Australia we have moreover invited representatives from a dozen leading Australian companies to discuss the results of the papers and share their own experiences. We are looking forward to an inspiring “research meets practices” event.

Thirdly, when looking in the programme you will realize that in the track “Knowledge Management and IS” our paper “Knowledge Management Goals revisited – A Cross Case Analysis of the Introduction of Corporate Social Software” is highlighted since it is (together with 6 other papers – chosen from 251 submissions) nominated as “Best Paper Candidate”. The paper was co-authored by Alexander Richter, Alexander Stocker, Sebastian Müller and Gabriela Avram and is an outcome of our longlasting (and still not finished) research on Enterprise 2.0 case studies (if you do not already know it, have a look at e20cases).

Please find our paper attached (and wish us good look. ;).

Knowledge Management Goals Revisited – A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Social Software Adoption in Corporate …

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Die gerade erschienene Ausgabe der OSCAR.trends, dem Magazin von “europas führender studentischer Unternehmensberatung”, widmet sich dem Thema “Social Media – Kommunikation in Unternehmen”. Darin sind mehrere interessante Artikel z.B. von Willms Buhse zum Thema “Vernetzung statt Hierarchie: Wie Sie Ihre Besten nicht ausbremsen”.

Teil der Ausgabe ist auch ein Interview mit Alexander Richter zum Thema “Social Media und Unternehmenskultur.

Die Ausgabe ist hier kostenlos verfügbar.

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