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May 30, 2006

Billy the Kid – and his Slide Show…

Sometimes I feel like Billy the Kid in the wild, wild EA-west. Yesterday, I gave a talk to a group of Capgemini consultants here in Denmark and I was (again) the youngest person in the room. It sometimes feels like a lot of buzz, but the audience liked my pitch and I will keep shooting at the conventional IT wisdom among academics and practitioners. My slides can be found here.

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May 16, 2006

Crafting “Outside the Box” Articles

Preparing for an article jam session with my ITU colleagues later this week, I have been thinking and reading about what constitutes an interesting/innovative article. The short answer is that it must “think outside the box”. But what does that really mean?

From my perspective you must first understand the nature of the box that you are studying before you can think outside it: Thinking “outside the box” is about pointing out incomplete knowledge/literature about a specific phenomenon and extending (or replacing) this knowledge/literature with new insights. Some people will argue that you need to discard existing knowledge as wrong, misguided, or incorrect if you what to innovate. But, I don’t think so...

“Thinking outside the box” comes from understanding where the box is, problematizing it, and extended it. Lets see if I can do that this week :)

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May 02, 2006

Final Call for Papers

I am co-editing a special issue on E-government Integration and Architecture in the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce. The deadline for paper submission is May 31.

Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to:
- The development, implementation, control and maintenance of government integration projects.
- Different process, information systems and technology integration approaches
- Service-oriented architectures, web services, web service orchestration for public administration
- Semantic web applications
- Evaluation of case studies
- Technology alignments
- Barriers to integration
- Innovative applications and best practices
- Overview studies. Development within countries, policies, infrastructure facilities and so on
- Comparative studies (comparing countries)
- Enterprise architectures

Please consider submitting your work – the full call for papers can be found here.

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