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Topics of Interest



Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:

IS Change Management in Practice and Organisational Processes
 

 - Ethical and Professional issues

 - Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues

 - New Organisational Forms and the Dilution of
   Organisational Boundaries

 - Leadership and Change Management

 - Change Management and Strategic Thinking and
   Alignment

 - Managing Evolving Change

 - Change Management and company-wide
   governance, policy, tools & frameworks
- Change Management Success Factors
- Change Management and Organisational Learning
- Change Management, Communication and
   Knowledge Sharing
- Training, Coaching and Human Change Management
- Change Management and Innovation Cultures in
  Organisations

 

 

Post-implementation Change Management and Risk Thinking

- Business Processes and Risk
- Quality Standards, Risks and Change Management
- Change Management in face of Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and

  Opportunities
- Risk Management in IS
- Risk Management in IS Design and Development
- Post-Implementation Risk Management
- Decision-making, Leadership and Risk Management in Change

  Processes.


IS Professional Issues

- Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society
- The role of information systems in the information society
- Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS use and exploitation
- Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links
- Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS and Change
   Management Academic Research
- Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
- Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards
- IS consultancy as a profession
- Change Management in Organisations
- Business Process Modeling and Engeneering
- Organisational IS Roles
- Communities of Practice and Knowledge Sharing in IS

 

 

Change Management Processes

- Change Management Models, Cycles and Phases
- Consultancy in Change Management
- Change Management and BPM
- Process modeling, analysis and design techniques
- Action Research, Reflective Practice and
  Professional Development in Change Management
- Localised Change vs Global Change
- Localised Organisational Change vs Organisation-wide Change
- Change Management as a Social Negotiation Process
 

IS Development Cycle and Change Management

 - The centrality of IS and  IT in Organisational
    Processes
 - Preparing for Change before and during IS
   Development
- Process models and IS Requirements Specification
- Change Management in Iterative and Incremental
   Methodologies
- Change Management and Agile Methodologies
- Change Management and Requirement
   Specification
- IS implementation and installation as an
   organization-wide, global and/but distributed
   process.
- IS Project Management and Change Management
- IS Evaluation
- User satisfaction and Change Management

 

Research Methods and Methodologies in Post-Implementation and Change Management

- Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research
- Ontological Assumptions in IS Research
- IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities
- IS vs Computer Science Research
- IS vs Business Studies
- Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to IS Research
- Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
- Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
- Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS Research
- Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches
- New and alternative approaches to IS Research
- Information Systems Evaluation Approaches and Models


 


 

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