Submission deadline: April 1, 2016
Publication: November/December 2016
Firms must increasingly turn their attention to innovatively embrace the promise of the technological developments such as e-commerce, cloud computing, mobile, big data, internet-of-things, social technologies and cognitive solutions that shape their business strategy and competitive position. They must also address the changing preferences and demands of the customers and the society they serve. The emerging complex and dynamic business environment offers several new opportunities, but it also comes with significant risks.
This special issue of IT Professional seeks to examine digital innovation and strategic transformation that is driving the industries, government and the society. It will showcase innovative smart services, digital products and platforms, discuss current issues, challenges and practices and look into future prospects.
We seek high-quality articles focusing on these areas from industry, business, academia and government. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Digital business models
Digital innovation as-a-service
Cognitive business
Culture change and human factors
The Internet of Me, Things and Everything
Platform revolution & economics
Design for analytics
Data velocity
Harnessing hyperscale: hardware is back (and never really went away)
Emerging social technologies and platforms
The next wave of mobility technology
Leveraging big data & analytics in the innovation process
Open innovation with IT
The role of IT in facilitating value co-creation and co-innovation
Customer engagement
T-shaped innovators for digital transformation
Submissions
Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words with no more than 20 references (with tables and figures counting as 300 words). Illustrations are welcome. For author guidelines, including sample articles, please see:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7389292
Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-cs.
Questions?
For more information, please contact the Guest Editors:
Haluk Demirkan, University of Washington-Tacoma, haluk@uw.edu (PRIMARY CONTACT)
James C. Spohrer, IBM Almaden Research Center, spohrer@us.ibm.com
Jeffrey J Welser, IBM Research – Almaden, welser@us.ibm.com