The 1st International Workshop on

Management Aspects of ERP system Implementation
MEI - 2006
 

May 23-24, 2006 – Paphos, Cyprus

 Call for Papers 

In conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2006 (http://www.iceis.org/)  

Chairs:

Jos Trienekens
University of Technology Eindhoven/KEMA Quality
The Netherlands
j.j.m.trienekens@tm.tue.nl

Paolo Faverio
Carlo Cattaneo University Milan
Italy
pfaverio@liuc.it

Rob J. Kusters
University of Technology Eindhoven/Open University Heerlen
The Netherlands
r.j.kusters@tm.tue.nl
 

Workshop Background and Goals
ERP implementation projects ask for major financial investments of organisations. They impact many processes and employees of an organisation and require significant organisational change. ERP implementations are not only a pervasive phenomenon from a financial point of view, but they also embed a high level of complexity from an engineering, a technical, and an organisational perspective. As a consequence heterogeneous managerial competences are required. This workshop addresses in particular approaches, methods and techniques to investigate and analyse these management aspects of ERP implementation projects.

Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution, and relation to previous research. Position and survey papers are also welcome

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
• project management
• human and organizational factors
• critical success factors (CSF) and critical failure factors (CFF)
• change management
• implementation characteristics in SMEs
• implementation scenarios
• risk management
• risk analysis
• cost estimation
• IT service specification
• ITIL applications
• service level agreements
• power and politics in ERP implementations
• metrics and measurement
• implementation improvement
• maturity levels of ERP implementation
• ERP maintenance
• case studies on successful & failed implementations
• role of the IS function during implementation
• methodological aspects of ERP research
• business process management

Format of the Workshop
The workshop will comprise invited talks and oral presentations of previously submitted papers that went through a double peer review process.

Workshop Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book with an ISBN#, which will be printed by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop.

Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals for oral presentation in any of the areas listed above. Submissions can be: regular papers, work in progress by Ph.D. students, and experience reports from practitioners. Please indicate clearly which of the three categories of papers your submission belongs to. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format) are available at the ICEIS web site. Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be submitted thru ICEIS web-based paper submission procedure. In addition, an email must be sent to all workshop chairs including: title, authors' affiliation, and an abstract of the paper submitted.

Important Dates
Full Paper Submission: 6th February, 2006 (new deadline)
Authors Notification: 6th March, 2006
Final Paper Submission and Registration: 20th March, 2006

Workshop Program Committee (preliminar)
Jos Trienekens, Eindhoven University of Technology/KEMA Quality, The Netherlands
Paolo Faverio, Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC University, Italy
Donatella Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano and Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC University, Italy
Rob Kusters, Eindhoven University of Technology/Open University, The Netherlands
Fred Heemstra, Open University, The Netherlands
Michiel van Genuchten, Philips, The Netherlands
Katalin Balla, Budapest Technical University, Hungary
Hans Moonen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Gerico de Vries, KEMA Quality, The Netherlands
Wouter Kuijpers, ACA Retail BV, The Netherlands
Ruud Hendriks, OCE, Germany
Aurelio Ravarini, Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC, Italy
Federico Pigni, Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC, Italy

Workshop Location
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2006) in Paphos, Cyprus.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2006, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. For registering: http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat
ICEIS 2006 Secretariat - The 1st International Workshop on Management Aspects of ERP system Implementation (MEI-2006)
E-mail: workshops@iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org