TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 7, No. 03 (January 21, 2010)
Table of Contents:
· Call for AOM Annual Meeting TIM Participation
· Call for Participation
o 6-9 April, 2010, in Dublin, Ireland –IEEE, Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments
· Call for Papers
o Innovation at the Intersection of Strategy, Organization and Learning, June 10-12, 2010, Netherlands, Center for Innovation Research (CIR, Tilburg University, Submissions 15 Feb 2010
o ICSOB will be extended a week to January 29th 2010 First Conference Internal Business Software
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AOM Annual Meeting
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Dear TIM Members,
I want to give you a quick update on the status of the Academy Meeting TIM Division's submission progress and to make an appeal.
We had a tremendous response to our call for papers. We received over 500 paper and symposium submissions, which is significantly higher than in previous years. Thank all of you who submitted your papers and symposia to the division. Having looked at most of these papers and symposia in checking them in, I know we will to put together a very interesting and high quality program for the meetings.
Unfortunately, this success has put a strain on our reviewers. Almost everyone who signed up received 3 papers to review. For those who have already signed up, thank you. I greatly appreciate your commitment and want you to know that we very much need you to fulfill your commitment to complete your reviews. We do not have a lot of back-up reviewers.
Related, I would like to appeal to those of you who are not currently reviewers to please sign up if you can. While all the submissions are assigned and reviews are starting to come in, we will likely need more reviewers, as some (but I hope not too many) currently assigned reviewers are unable to complete their reviews. We need your help. If you are willing to serve as a reviewer, I would be grateful if you could please sign up.
To sign up, please visit the reviewer sign up website and click the "Sign Up Now" button in order to create a profile and choose your areas of expertise (i.e. keywords) for the TIM division. The signup process is fast and easy and should not take longer than 5 minutes.
Thank you and I will keep you posted on the program as it develops. And just a reminder, please make sure you add the TIM Division Business Meeting and Award Ceremony to your meeting calendar and celebrate with the winners of the two laptops: The winners of the TIM Best Paper and the Best Student Paper Awards. The laptops will be presented during the TIM Business Meeting award ceremony at the AOM 2010 in Montreal.
Best,
Paul Olk
TIM Program Division Chair
tim.aom@du.edu
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Call for Participation
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IBM and IEEE invite you to participate in a conference on Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments on 6-9 April, 2010, in Dublin, Ireland.
Interactive program sessions are designed specifically for: workforce development and training executives at technology-driven organizations; deans, department heads and chairs of curriculum committees at university-based engineering programs; government officials with regulatory and/or funding responsibility for higher education; and officials of professional societies and accrediting organizations that serve engineering and related academic disciplines.
A key element of the program will be work groups assigned to develop action recommendations for employers, educators, funding organizations, accrediting agencies and other stakeholders. A series of plenary sessions will also feature prominent executives from key employers including IBM, Dassault Systems, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and SAP, and well as academic thought leaders for the University of Colorado, Drexel University, the University of Illinois and the Indian Institute of Science.
Full conference program and registration information is available at: http://www.ieee.org/go/tee_2010.
Sadiq Mitchell
Education Program Manager, University Programs
IEEE Educational Activities
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Phone: +1-732-562-5498
Fax: +1-732-981-1686
Email: sadiq.mitchell@ieee.org
www.ieee.org/education
IEEE: Fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.
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Call for Papers
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Apologies for cross-posting.
Call for Papers
The Tilburg Conference on Innovation:
Innovation at the Intersection of Strategy, Organization and Learning
June 10-12, 2010
Center for Innovation Research (CIR), Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Please submit a full paper to cir@uvt.nl by February 15, 2010. Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/cir/conferences/.
Successful innovation is fundamentally about the discovery, use and commercialization of new products, processes and services. Organizations engage in innovation in order to enhance their performance; those that fail to innovate run the risk of losing out to those that do. But innovation as such does not guarantee competitive success, as the degree to which firms are able to benefit from their innovative efforts varies widely. This conference aims to explore the drivers and consequences of this
heterogeneity.
Innovation strategy involves a number of decisions regarding the nature and type of innovations to engage in, as well as the speed, openness, and flexibility with which the organizations respond to challenges.
Additionally, organizations experience a tension between routine and innovation, which implies that they need to balance the resources dedicated to explorative and to exploitative projects. In many respects, issues related to innovation strategy are inseparable from those related to the organization of innovation activities.
To begin with, organizations face issues regarding the governance of innovation activities: whether to develop know-how in-house, in collaboration with other organizations, or to outsource it. Additionally, how organizations manage their portfolio of innovation activities and organize the innovation process is critical for success. The timeliness and successful commercialization of innovations are especially important. In this sense, insight into organizational learning processes in innovative projects and organizations is also crucial to understanding their innovative
performance.
Hence, the central theme of this conference will deal with innovation at the intersection of strategy, organization and learning. The Tilburg Conference on Innovation, hosted by the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg University, is a forum in which scholars from intersecting research streams will come together to debate current research and gain insights into future trends. This will be a small conference with a maximum of 45 papers so that participants have the opportunity to receive quality feedback. Our aim is to include participants from all over the world and to give equal opportunity to younger as well as established scholars, with quality of research being
the predominant goal.
We invite both theoretical and empirical papers that predominantly, though not exclusively, reflect some of the following issues:
* What organizational capabilities are needed to deploy and govern
innovative activities effectively, especially in fast-changing environments and across great distances?
* How does organizational structure affect the learning inputs and
outcomes involved in innovation?
* In what ways do networks of organizations contribute to the
development of innovations?
* How do institutional forces affect the innovative performance of
organizations?
Any other contributions pertaining to innovation strategy, organization of
innovation and organizational learning for innovation are also welcome.
There is no registration fee, and presenting authors will have their accommodation covered during their stay. An added attraction of the conference is the opportunity to visit the southern Netherlands in spring and sample the best local beers Belgium and the Netherlands have to offer.
Confirmed speakers/special guests include:
Bart Nooteboom Will Mitchell Andrew van de Ven
Daniel Brass Terry Amburgey Maurizio Zollo
Deborah Dougherty Joe Lampel Lee Fleming
Arjen van Witteloostuijn Keld Laursen Gino Cattani
Anna Grandori
Submission process:
Please submit a full paper to cir@uvt.nl by February 15, 2010. Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/cir/conferences/.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 15, 2010.
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Due to requests from authors, the deadline for ICSOB will be extended a week to January 29th 2010.
Further information is available below and at: www.icsob.org
- Pasi Tyrväinen
Call for Papers
First International Conference on Software Business
June 21.-23. 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland
http://www.icsob.org
The advancement of software industry has had a substantial impact not only on productivity and on GDP growth globally, but also on our daily work and life. Software business refers to commercial activity of the software industry, aimed at generating income from delivery of software products and software services. Although software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it an intriguing and challenging domain for research. Until now, however, software business has received little to no attention from the academic community. The First International Conference on Software Business brings together researchers interested in the software industry, with a specific focus on the business of software.
The inaugural International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2010) will be held on June 21.-23. 2010 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. It is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä and is held in cooperation with Tekes, the National Technology Agency of Finland, and collaborating organizations.
Relevant topics:
You are invited to submit the papers addressing contemporary issues emerging on the intersection of software and business domains. Both papers reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are original submissions on the topics including, but not limited to:
- Business in Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
- Business models and strategies of software vendors
- Revenue generation models based on advertisements, subscriptions, packaged software, professional services
- Resource-based view and competence in software business
- Internationalization of software firms, International outsourcing
- Vertical software markets, Impact of industry evolution
- IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
- Dominant design, open and closed interfaces and standards
- Open source software business
- Software ecosystems: networks, ecologies and communities
- Internal software business processes, product pricing, product management, product life-cycles and product-lines
- Operational efficiency, lean enterprise and competitive advantage
- Quality and benchmarking
- Domain engineering for software business
- Measuring and competing with user experience, security and green software
- Software business management
- Cases in software business
Submission:
Full papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial best practices (abstract) and posters are all welcome. All paper submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted full papers and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. For the accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author of the paper needs to attend the conference and present the paper.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: extended to Jan 22, 2010
Notification: extended to February 28th, 2010
Camera-Ready: Mar 29, 2010
Conference Officers
General Chair:
Michael A. Cusumano, MIT, Sloan School of Management
Program Chairs:
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University
Steering Committee:
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Helsinki
Updated information and further details are available at http://www.icsob.org, where also the invitation to submit tutorial proposals and workshop proposals can be found. Please, send emails with further questions to info@icsob.org.
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Pasi Tyrväinen Pasi.Tyrvainen@jyu.fi
Professor (Digital media) Dept. of Comp. Sci. & IS,
GSM +358 40 540 8646 http://users.jyu.fi/~pttyrvai
International Conference on Software Business, WWW.ICSOB.ORG CfP DL January 29, 2010
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Darlene,
Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
Adjunct, University of Phoenix
Global Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
dahoule@sbcglobal.net
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu