IADIS Information Systems 2009

A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing. In this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary business. This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic resource… is knowledge”.

In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary. Corporations, which so far had been economic entities, are being described as ‘information-based organizations’, ‘learning organizations’, ‘knowledge-creating companies’ or knowledge intensive organisations. Instead of product-market strategies, the fashionable business discourse invokes core competencies, intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual capital, knowledge management etc. Consequently, in this 21st century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital, knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become part of the corporate landscape.

However, none of this apparent revolution would be possible without the underlying technological support provided by IS. The IADIS Information Systems Conference (IS 2009) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice, research and teaching.

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Topics
A set of key issues has been identified (see below). However, these do not aim at being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be considered. Areas and Topics of the conference will focus on:
 * IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes
 * Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues
 * New Organisational Forms
 * Dilution of Organisational Boundaries
 * The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational Processes
 * IS Management
 * Information Management
 * Knowledge Management
 * IS and SMEs
 * Innovation and IS
 * Innovation and Knowledge Management
 * IS and Change Management
 * IS and Organisation Development
 * Enterprise Application Integration
 * Enterprise Resource Planning
 * Business Process Change


 * IS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies
 * Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks
 * Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
 * Agile Methodologies
 * IS Design and Development as a Component-Based Process
 * IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation Process
 * IS D Design and Development as a Global and Distributed Process
 * Outsourcing in IS
 * Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
 * IS Project Management
 * IS Quality Management and Assurance
 * IS Standards and Compliance Issues
 * Risk Management in IS
 * Risk Management in IS Design and Development


 * IS Professional Issues
 * Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society
 * The role of information in the information society
 * Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
 * Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links
 * Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic Research
 * Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
 * Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards
 * IS consultancy as a profession
 * Organisational IS Roles
 * Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing


 * IS Research
 * 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
 * Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial in IS
 * Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches
 * New and alternative approaches to IS research
 * Examples of experimental research designs in IS


 * IS Learning and Teaching
 * Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision
 * Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula
 * Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
 * E-Learning in IS
 * Instructional Design for IS
 * National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
 * Multiculturality ad Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching

This is exleclent! Very much in line with my thoughts. I look forward to part two!Question: Was your ?modern defiition? something you endorse, or was it part of the ?myths?? I wasn?t clear about that.One comment about Myth #1: I totally agree with your heading and your discussion?women are not inferior. Nothing could be further from the truth, and inferiority, value, or importance, has nothing to do with submission.I?m convinced that God loves men and women equally, that both are equally valued in the sight of God, If anything, perhaps women actually have the more important, even Christ-like, calling in nurturing and raising children.However, I?m just a bit disappointed that in your discussion of this your emphasis seemed to be on measuring inferiority based on who makes decisions and how they are made.Importance or inferiority has nothing to do with authority, who is in charge, or how decisions are made. Jesus repeatedly rebuked those who had authority and decision-making power, and instead invited us all to become like a little child?a symbol of a person who had no authority at all. Jesus himself had basically no worldly authority in any established institutions of His day.As an extreme example, the Pope is not any more righteous or valuable in the sight of God, for example, than Mother Theresa?and that example has nothing to do with the genders of the two, just contrasts in their level of power and authority and lifestyle.Perhaps that?s what you were getting at, but I thought we could underscore the value and importance of women in ways other than how many decisions they make.

Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2009 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat@is-conf.org Web site: http://www.is-conf.org/

Program Committee

 * Conference Chair
 * has general chair::Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK
 * Program Co-Chairs
 * has program chair::Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
 * has program chair::Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
 * Committee Members: for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.is-conf.org/committees.asp

A bit surprised it seems to silmpe and yet useful.