***** Deadline Extended to November 30, 2012 ****
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Proposal Submission: 15th October 2012
Extended Proposal Submission: 30th November 2012
Full Chapter Submission: 31th January 2013
Extended Full Chapter Submission: 28th February 2013
Government e-Strategic Planning and Management: Practices, patterns and
roadmaps
A Book Edited by Dr. Leonidas G. Anthopoulos1, and Dr. Christopher G.
Reddick2 ,
1TEI of Larissa Greece, Greece, 2University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
To be published by Springer Science and Business Media
1. Introduction
Various Government e-Strategies have been developed since the late 90s in an
attempt to describe the vision for administrative and for societal change,
the objectives and the priorities with regard to the development of the
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at national and at
supranational levels. Terms such as the European “Information Society”, the
U.S. “Information Highways” and the Korean and Chinese “Informatization” try
to describe social transformation that occurs due to the ICT, and to
determine means with which Governments will capitalize the ICT to deal with
national or regional challenges, to improve social life and to support
economic growth. Moreover, e-Strategies define guidelines that control
public investments on the ICT. In these strategic documents Governments
identify the strategic development supervisors, the objectives, the Critical
Success Factors (CSFs), the evaluation frameworks, and the estimated
outcomes. Different countries recognize different challenges, prioritize
different objectives and determine alternative paths to achieve in their e-
strategic targets.
Additionally, e-Strategic implementation progress has been used by various
organizations to measure e-Government maturity (i.e., the United Nationsʼ e-
Government Readiness index, and the Accentureʼs maturity model), and to
associate ICT spending with national economic growth (i.e., in terms of
marketʼs liberation and corruption). Accenture for instance, classifies
countries as innovative leaders (U.S.A., Singapore, Canada); visionary
followers (U.K., Netherlands, Australia etc.); steady achievers (France,
Germany etc.); and Platform Builders (Japan, Brazil etc.) with regard to
their e-Strategic progress.
E-Strategic planning has been a dynamic process since all e-Strategies have
closed even more than a single life-cycle. These strategic updates are
usually not justified efficiently by Governments. E-strategic planning,
management and review are complex processes that have to consider and
account on various determinants, which belong to either the external or the
internal environment of the application area. As a result, it is extremely
difficult to an external observer who has not participated in these
processes and who does not live in the particular geographic region to
understand these parameters and to recognize how they impact the strategic
life cycle and how the strategic objectives are being updated.
2. Objectives
This book focuses on the analysis of various e-strategies and of their
updates with means of strategic management. It aims to illustrate the
alternative e-strategic approaches that are followed around the world -with
the capitalization of recent trends in strategic management theory- and
addresses the gaps that appear between e-strategic updates. Invited authors
have to use strategic management theory and tools in order to analyze and
describe the e-strategic evolution in their cases. More often than not,
authors can evaluate e-strategic management approaches and present multi-
criteria decision making systems for e-strategic transformation.
Concluding, the aim of this book is to invite and depict experiences from
national and supranational cases, which come from different geographic areas
regarding e-strategic planning and management. More specifically:
- It aims to demonstrate e-strategic initiation and development across
different countries and continents, and the association between policies and
ICT;
- it seeks to perform a systematic analysis of various representative
cases, in order to capture the realized e-Strategic transformation;
- it focuses on the extraction of the critical success factors that
guide e-strategic progress and the criteria set by decision makers for e-
strategic reviews;
- it aims to illustrate the reasons that drive e-strategic updates;
- it aims to summarize on patters for e-strategic evolution, according
to the presented cases.
3. Intended audience and Potential uses
1. Government CIOs, Strategic Leaders, Decision Makers, IT/IS Managers,
Analysts and Designers seeking to draft e-strategic change plans.
2. Consultants and practitioners desirous of new solutions and
technologies to define visions and missions for their Government clients.
3. Business management, public policy and IS management educators
interested in imparting knowledge about the vital issue of e-strategic
management.
4. Academic and consulting researchers looking to uncover and
characterize new research problems and programs.
5. E‐Government professionals involved with technology strategic
planning, technology procurement, management of technology projects,
consulting and advising on technology issues and management.
5. Recommended Topics and Themes
In the context of e-strategic management the proposed book intends to
include, but is not limited to, chapters in the following broad topics and
themes:
1. Case studies and user experiences regarding e-strategic development
at national and supranational level.
2. Government 2.0 and e-strategic development in countries and
territories with different levels of e‐government capability and maturity.
3. The context of strategic management (theories, frameworks,
methodologies, tools, recent and future trends and other supporting aspects
of strategic management) with regard to the ICT, Strategic (systems)
thinking in the public sector.
4. Transparent, open government, connected government and recent trends
regarding e-strategic formulation.
5. Portfolio management, public sector governance, government
performance, investment management.
6. Economic value and impact of open and of connected government as a
result of recent e-strategic transformation.
7. Government interoperability, Government e-service innovation and
management, Enterprise Architecture for e-strategic management.
8. Government transformation and modernization, public sector reforms.
9. Open data initiative, linked data for e-strategic management (i.e.,
the dashboards).
10. Policies, regulations and mandates for driving government ICT
programs.
11. Public private partnerships for e-strategic planning, management and
development.
12. Segmentsʼ presentation and association with Government e-strategies
(i.e., public services, healthcare, defense, education, disaster management,
manufacturing, transportation and services etc.).
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November,
30, 2012, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will
be notified by December 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
February 28, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind
review basis.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by Springer Science and Business
Media, publisher of the Public Administration and Information Technology
(http://www.springer.com/series/10796) book series. This publication is
anticipated to be released in 2014.
Important dates and deadlines
November 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 15, 2012: Notification of Proposal Acceptance
January 31, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
February 28, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
April 15, 2013: Notification of Chapter Acceptance along with Review
Comments
May 15, 2013: Final Chapter Submission along with signed Copyright Agreement
June 15, 2013: Final Deadline
Editorial advisory board
The Chief Editor will be advised and supported by an Editorial Advisory
Board (EAB), consisting of leading specialized experts from the academia and
industry. The current members of the EAB include:
Dr. Pallab Saha, National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems
Science
Dr. Panos Fitsilis, Professor, Project Management Department, Technological
Education Institute (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
Dr. Pantelis Ipsilantis, Professor, Project Management Department,
Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
Dr. Athina Vakali, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Gouscos Dimitris, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication and
Media Studies, University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Michael Knight, Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of
Wisconsin - Green Bay
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or
by mail to:
Leonidas Anthopoulos
Project Management Department,
TEI of Larissa, Greece
Tel: +306932100198
e-mail:
lanthopo@teilar.gr
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