CALL FOR PAPERS
eCommerce-Induced Reengineering
Minitrack of
I3E - The first IFIP conference on E-Commerce, E-Business,
E-Government
Zurich, Switzerland, 4-5 October, 2001
(http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference/)
Scope of Minitrack:
The increasing forces of intensifying global competition,
continuing customer demands, and the significant revolution in
digital communication technologies have together put pressure
upon many organizations to switch their operations into the
e-business world by making use of Electronic Commerce (EC)
technologies such as the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW)
as media for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer
(B2C) transactions. This process potentially facilitates the
expansion and development of new linkages among various business
partners around the globe. It also speeds up information flow
and enables information and knowledge sharing with other
entities in a âboundarylessâ business supply chain. These
new innovative business models require a real departure from a
functionally-based modus operandi to one which is based on
agility, flexibility, responsiveness and mass customization.
Therefore, it is no longer sufficient for organizations to rely
on the use of piecemeal technologies, working in isolation and
super-imposed on rigid structures and systems. Instead,
organizations should expand their ânetworkabilityâ and
âintegrationâ capacities by managing adequately
relationships, processes and transactions along the
organizational supply chain. Business process reengineering
(BPR) is one of the most widespread approaches to enable such an
expansion.
The concept of BPR is an overdue major re-alignment of the ethos
of value-adding principles. It ensures that activities are
integrated to provide high levels of synergy and focus. BPR
seeks to optimize the various capabilities that exist in
business organizations and has the potential to eliminate the
various impediments from which organizations tend to suffer. To
maximize the benefits of this process, other modern tools such
as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Knowledge Management (KM)
and Customer Relationships Management (CRM) need to be embraced
in a complementary and integrative manner. This
transformational process involves the challenging task of
reconciling both technological and organizational imperatives in
one unified strategy, and the changing of business architecture
to reflect the new roles, responsibilities and relationships
that would serve the new fabric of the transformed organization.
It is becoming more evident that the winners in the current and
future digitally-based competitive market will be those who
excel in such an integrated transformation. However, not many
organizations are finding it easy to achieve a mature and
comprehensive experience with their transformational efforts. At
the heart of this problem is the scarcity of studies that
address this critical issue from a broad and global perspective
through properly investigated research.
Conceptual and analytical models, strategic frameworks, surveys,
and case studies focusing on the tools/techniques of
eCommerce-induced reengineering are welcome. In particular,
papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics
are invited:
- Tools and techniques of e-change management.
- Evolutionary vs. revolutionary approaches to e-reengineering.
- Business integration at intra, inter and global business
process levels.
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) & e-commerce.
- E-Customer Relationship Management (eCRM).
- Critical success factors in e-business transformation.
- E-project management.
- E-knowledge management.
Paper Publication:
Selected papers will be considered for publication in the
Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ)
(http://www.mcb.co.uk/bpmj.htm).
Organized by:
IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing
Department of Information Technology, University of Zurich
mcm Institute, University of St.Gallen
GMD - German National Research Center for Information
Technology,
Berlin
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2001
Final Papers Due: June 15, 2001
Submission Guidelines:
Please visit the Conference web site
<http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference/>
Minitrack Chair:
Dr. Majed Al-Mashari,
Editor â Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ)
Department of Information Systems,
College of Computer & Information Sciences,
King Saud University,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
E-mail:
malmashari@yahoo.com