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Track Chair : Dr Alex Sim Tze Hiang Trends in Big Data analytics has spurred the innovations in using large scale heterogeneous data to facilitate business operations. This leads to the advancements of business intelligence and analytics (BIA), which integrate sophisticated technologies and techniques in analyzing business data to aid in business decision making. We welcome papers on various aspects of business intelligence and analytics, including case studies, critical analyses on BIA strategies, practices, techniques, and technologies that advance the understanding and practice of BIA. |
Track Chair : Associate Prof. Dr. Mohammad Nazir Ahmad A variety of methodologies, approaches and strategies with respect to the creation, capture, transfer and use of knowledge in organizations has been continuously developed and improved until nowadays. Therefore, this track is aimed to provide a significant platform to share and discuss the recent trends in knowledge management towards advance understanding in managing a diversity of knowledge in multiple perspectives. |
Track Chair : Dr Suraya Miskon Social media is distinctive compared to earlier forms of collaborative technologies as it allows self-curated user profiles, accessible digital content and an articulation of a user’s social network. Apart from enhancing connectivity among people, social media has behaviour-structuring effects that warrant a new evaluation of collective behaviour. Given the prevalence of social media underpinned by improved Internet infrastructures and affordable devices, social media has been applied widely in information sharing, expressing opinions, team collaboration, social commerce, grassroots mobilization, narrative shaping, entrepreneurial taking etc. |
Track Chair : Dr Ab Razak Che Hussin Digital business, governance, and service enabled by digital technology and applications has become an indispensable strategic component of almost all aspeces across multiple domains. Today, companies depend on computers networks, various digital devices and technologies (such as tablet, smartphone, desktop, RFID tag, sensor, social media, Internet of Things, and big data technologies) in order to plan, manage, market, monitor, control, enhance and innovate various business strategies, operations, products and services. The pervasiveness of mobile and electronic business has created tremendous opportunities for non-traditional players and start-ups to enter emerging markets, which has presented challenges for incumbents in traditional industries. Thus, this track encourages the submission of manuscripts that reflect the state of the art in digital technologies, with an emphasis on their impact on (1) individuals, teams, organizations, governments, and society; (2) relationships among participating parties; and (3) business and societal transformation. We call for theoretical and empirical research papers that use rigorous and innovative qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods to investigate the phenomenon of digital technology and business. |
Track Chair : Dr Nur Hidayati Zakaria Submissions to this track should related to application, lesson learnt or expanding the well-known and proved methods that have been traditionally applied in IS research. In line with the conference theme, we are particularly interested in receiving submissions that propose creative research designs, discussion on emerging theories in IS domain, new methodological approaches to IS research, evaluations and critiques of trends in IS research and innovative methods with roots from psychology, economics, sociology and computer science. As a discipline that spans technology and human behaviour, we are in a unique position to offer fresh thinking on foundational issues that become increasingly important with the ubiquity and power of digital innovation. Thus, we welcome innovative data analysis techniques from different philosophical positions – e.g., positivism, post-positivism, interpretivism, critical theory, critical realism – that contribute to our understanding of how information and communication technology contributes to the construction of a better society. |
Track Chair : Associate Professor Dr. Nor Zairah Ab Rahim Recent technological developments such as social media, the Internet of Things (IOT), cloud computing, blockchain and big data offer promising opportunities to transform industrial landscapes and organizational services. However, the true value of such developments can be only realized when there is successful implementation, adoption, and diffusion of these technologies. Information Systems (IS) adoption is one of the most researched themes in IS, with studies examining a wide range of technologies, adopters, and contexts using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Yet, continuous challenges abound with the constant flux of new IT applications such as big data, cloud computing, end-user computing, IOT and social media. New trends in societies, economies, and politics throughout the globe such as Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), customer innovations, IoT, globalization, and environmental sustainability also demand novel and agile behavioral and technical approaches to the implementation, adoption and diffusion of IS. This track welcomes papers that fresh theoretical and methodological perspectives on IS implementation, adoption, and diffusion. We look forward to submissions that advance empirical and theoretical understanding, while also contributing to the practical management of IS. |
Track Chair : Dr. Noor Dayana Abd Halim The explosion of digital technologies has resulted in innovative teaching and learning strategies being designed and implemented to accommodate the demands of new generation learners. This digital era brings new teaching and learning approaches and methods to the IS field and provide new learning experience for the learners. This track will present and discuss IS Education challenges and strategies for the future of IS education, as well as advanced technologies and tools used, such as the edge-cutting open learning, educational data mining and learning analytics. In particular, the focus of the track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy and practice. We welcome high quality research papers in any IS Education and e-Learning field, encompassing all research methods and approaches in addressing the key issues in IS Education and e-Learning. |
Track Chair : Dr Nurazean binti Maarop Wellness and Healthcare Systems around the world are struggling with the great challenges of providing quality of patient care as well as facilitating the monitoring and management of exponentially increasing chronic diseases and clinical risks. Thus, the Information Systems is expected to deliver a measurable impact on managing these challenges and to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in Wellness and Healthcare. |
Track Chair : Dr Syed Norris Syed Hikmi Security and privacy issues associated with information systems are leading to significant challenges for individuals, small and large firms, and policy makers. The growth of spurious activity on the Internet is demanding a corresponding growth in security and privacy protection activities. While there is an abundance of practices and techniques focusing on the technical aspects of security and privacy controls, there continues to be many challenges, especially with regard to understanding the underlying behavioral theories and economic interests that are augmenting rigorous managerial practice in information security and privacy. This has led to discussions focusing on a range of IS security and privacy issues. |
Track Chair : Dr Suraya Miskon Organisations making investments in costly and complex Information Systems are under increasing pressure to justify the value of such investments. Given the emergence of new technologies and platforms the value of IS/IT as part of a digital strategy is recognised as being derived from the redesign of the business processes and organisational structures rather than the implementation of new technology. Against this backdrop, enterprise systems, IS/IT project management, outsourcing, and business process management remain important topics for IS researchers. Furthermore, theories must now include the dynamic processes for determining user interactions and utilising advanced technologies in a non-passive environment. Our track welcomes quality submissions that inform novel conceptualisations and applications of technology integration, business process management, and the logical organisation of people, in addition to studies of emerging organizational and social issues associated with IS/IT project management, outsourcing, enterprise systems and business process management. |
Track Chair : Dr Halina Dahlan There is a discrepancy in terms of information systems (IS) development between the different parts of the world. Consequently, the IS issues faced by the more prosperous areas are different than the areas lagging behind in IS. The more successful areas are currently focusing issues such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and big data analytics. On the other hand, the areas with less developed IS are still grappling with issues such as accessibility and connectivity. |