CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission: 15th October 2012
Full Chapter Submission: 31th January 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
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.
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.
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.
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 the e-strategy
(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 October,
15, 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 October 31, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by January
15, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis.
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
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