“Domestic and Global Sourcing of the IT Workforce”
Sponsored by the Society for Information Management and MIS Quarterly Executive
December 13th 2008, 8:30a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Dauphine University, Paris, France
AGENDA for the pre-ICIS 2008 SIM Academic Workshop
You are invited to attend the pre-ICIS 2008 SIM Academic Workshop to be held from 10am-6pm on Saturday, December 13th, 2008, at Dauphine University in Paris, France. This year’s workshop includes invited and competitive paper presentations that focus on the theme "Domestic and Global Sourcing of the IT Workforce."
The most recent annual survey of SIM members indicates that ‘attracting, developing and retaining IT professionals’ has again become the top concern of CIOs. In contrast to the late 1990s, the desired skill mixes for client firms are changing -- with technical skills vital for some jobs, but change management and business knowledge and capabilities, in various mixes, becoming increasingly important.
Projections for Western Europe and other developed economies also indicate future IT skills gaps, while the major offshore destination of India is experiencing high labour turnover, rising pay demands, and skills shortfalls leading to the offshoring of some of its own IT work to ‘nearshore’ or cheaper destinations. Other countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, and Ireland are seeking to deal with rising demands related to new sourcing strategies. There are also over 120 emerging IT industries around the world in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and non-BRIC countries, with considerable implications for the location and management of domestic and global IT workforces.
Themes to be addressed include but are not restricted to:
• Key IT skill requirements and building for the next decade – in client and vendor organizations
• Implications of future requirements on IT skills supply systems
• The implications of offshoring and outsourcing arrangements for skills portfolios
• IT skills gaps – old versus new skills, the roles of automation, redesigning work, individual career structures, organizational development strategies
• Applying core/non-core concepts to IT workforce strategies
• Applying 24-hour follow-the-sun concepts to different types of IT work
• Strategic human resource challenges and practices to address skill needs and career development in today’s global sourcing environment (e.g. recruitment, retention, training, remuneration)
• The implications and challenges of IT-enabled business process outsourcing (BPO)
• Country and regional studies – leveraging IT sourcing changes in developed countries as well as BRIC and non-BRIC developing countries
*****Special Issue of MIS Quarterly Executive for December 2009
We are pleased to announce that the December 2009 issue of MISQ Executive will be a special issue dedicated to academic research on Domestic and Global Sourcing of the IT Workforce. All papers submitted for this special issue will be submitted to a regular MISQE review process under the guidance of the special issue editors.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers intended for an IT executive readership that describe practice-oriented research findings and guidelines. Authors of accepted SIM Academic Workshop abstracts have the option of an early full paper submission (December 1st 2008) to receive preliminary editorial feedback with specific suggestions for developing their ideas prior to the special issue full paper deadline open to all researchers.
Important Dates:
Special Issue full paper submission deadline: April 20th 2009
First Editor Reports Returned: June 8th 2009
Resubmission Due for Selected Papers: August 3rd 2009
Final Submission for Conditionally Accepted Papers: September 14th 2009
MISQE Publications Editor Work: Completed by October 19th 2009
MISQE Publication: December 2009