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Positioning IT in the eyes of a CEO

I have been invited by DISS d.o.o. to do a guest talk at their partner meeting next week. DISS, with $55mio sales in 2006, is one of the leading IT Distributors in the Slovenian market, owing their success to a clear strategy of strategic alliances with well known IT retailers, solution providers and niche players. My talk to the DISS’ partners will discuss state-of-the-art research findings and best practice experience on how to position the information technology in the eyes of a CEO. The aim is to look at their products through their customers’ eyes and understand what makes their customers tick. This will help them in analyzing their key customers and developing innovative and value-added relationships, the latter resulting in solid and increased sales.

Get a free copy of my book through Microsoft Slovenija’s promotional campaign

The book Using Microsoft Office 2007 System in Business Practice I have recently coauthored with Peter Vre?ar has been used in Microsoft Slovenija’s promotional / consulting campaign aimed at small and medium sized slovenian enterprises. Part of the campaign is a set of five questions you answer in order to describe your company — along with a free advice on what technological infrastructure is best for your company, you get a free copy of the book. Nice move from Microsoft, as business users learn from the book how the Office 2007 System will actually help them in their everyday work.

Mini-track chairing @ 14th AMCIS 2008…

Lately I’ve been busy polishing the call for papers for the Knowledge management and knowledge management systems mini-track that I will be co-chairing at the forthcoming 14th AMCIS-Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Namely, the proposal I submitted with my three colleagues: David T Croasdell (University of Nevada, Reno), Ronald D Freeze (Arizona State University), and Samuel Otim (Clemson University), has been accepted in the KM track. For such a competitive area, this is a great achievement. Well, now the real work begins - August 2008 will be here in a blink and we’ll be in Ontario, Canada. Before that, December 1st 2007 we publish our final call for papers for our mini track, review the submissions, and create a story around the whole lot of it. Invitation stands from the day one, though - if your KM and KMS research is taking existing organizational/management/sociological/IT theories into the KM context and looks into the future, this mini-track is for you. Looking forward to receiving your submissions, and, seeing you in Ontario. 

The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals sponsored by the AIS-Association for Information Systems. AMCIS is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious conferences for IS/IT in the Western Hemisphere, and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed information systems research papers, over  700 of which are submitted each year.

Added January 9, 2008: Call for papers for the track has just been officialized. Download it from here.