AIS Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIGLead)

SIGLead Conference 2004

Athens, Georgia, USA —April 17th, 2004

Conference Chairs: Elena Karahanna and Richard T. Watson

MIS Department
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6273

Registration

Standard $100
PhD students $75

Registration form (word document)

Accommodation

A block of room has been reserved at the Athen's Holiday Inn. These will be held until March 29th, 2004. When you make a reservation, ask for group code "LSC" to get the special rate of $79 + tax per night for a two double bed room and $89 + tax for King bed. You can reserve by calling +1.800.HOLIDAY or +1.706.549.4433

The conference dinner will be held on Friday night at 8:30pm at Harry Bissetts, a New Orleans Style restaurant.

Getting to Athens

Program

8:30 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks Dr. George Benson, Dean
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
9:00-9:30 Keynote Address Allen Amason, University of Georgia
9:30-11:00 Academic Panel
IS Leadership: Past Research and Future Directions
Allan Alter, Exec. Editor, CIO Insight
Bill Kettinger, Univ. of South Carolina
Jane Mackay, Texas Christian Univ.
Eph McLean, Georgia State Univ.
V. Sambamurthy, Michigan State Univ.
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Paper: Integrated Model of IS Leadership, Strategy, and IS Unit Performance (presentation)
Discussant: Mimi Hurt
Mike Eom and Surinder Kahai
State University of New York Binghamton University
11:45-12:15 Paper: An Empirical Analysis of the Antecedents of CIO Effectiveness
Discussant: Scott Bernard
Detlev Smaltz, CKO Office of the Surgeon General
Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland
V. Sambamurthy, Michigan State University
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 CIO panel: Leading Information Systems: Issues and Concerns

Moderator: Rick Watson

Elaine Mitchell, CIO, United Way
Victor Nilson, VP for IT Application and Delivery, Cingular
Dr. Dennis Calbos
Interim CIO, University of Georgia
2:15-2:45 Paper: IS/ITStrategy: Concept, Frameworks, and Case Observations (presentation) Carl Adams, Weidong Xia, Nicholas Ball, University of Minnesota
Gwanhoo Lee, American University
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:30 Presentation: IT Leaders on IT Leadership: Results from "CIO Insight's" surveys on Leadership and the CIO Role Allan Alter, Executive Editor, CIO Insight
3:30-4:00 Paper: Distributed Leadership in the Development of a Knowledge Sharing System
Discussant: Kathryn Brohman
Jing Zang, Clark University
Sue Faerman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
4:00-4:30 Paper: Towards Alignment: The Role of Shared Mental Models between CIO and the Top Management Team

Paper: CIO Effectiveness and Firm Performance
David Preston, Univ. of Georgia


Daniel Chen, Univ. of Georgia

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