This mini track provides a forum for research cases that explore strategic and value-added management of information technology. We especially encourage papers that potentially contribute to theory, based on real-world organizational experiences. The main goal of our mini-track is to address the ever-widening gap between IS theory and practice. The explosion of new technology to enhance business value, e-commerce, and globalization via the World Wide Web are just a few of the events occurring in practice with relatively little theory developed to predict or even describe these phenomena. The best papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications (JITCA). The goal of JITCA is to publish quality research articles that provide ideas and information that practitioners can actually use.

Possible Topics may include the following:

• Enterprise-wide management of information resources
• Integration of IT planning with strategic and/or BPR planning
• Frameworks/models depicting alignment of IT resources and people with business goals
• The role of IT management, empowerment, and creativity in managing change
• The role of e-commerce and other IT trends in organizational transformation

David Paper
Utah State University
dpaper@b202.usu.edu

Jeffrey Johnson
Utah State University
jjohnson@b202.usu.edu

Shailendra Palvia
Long Island University
spalvia@liu.edu