Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: IT and Project Management

Given this increasing emphasis on projects across a variety of areas, the topical themes suggested for this minitrack will attract researchers and practitioners of technology-based project management, and will provide a forum for discussing advanced concepts, tools and techniques for managing project in today's dynamic and challenging business environment. The emphasis will be on best-in-class practices and state-of-the-art concepts. This minitrack will explore the latest techniques for tracking and controlling projects, compressing the time-to-market cycles, managing innovation under cost and time pressures, managing diverse project teams in decentralized organizations, capturing and transferring learning across projects, and dealing with interruptions, risks, conflict and commitment.

Papers are invited for the Minitrack on Project Management, providing a forum for exchanging new findings, and to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge, on a wide range of management issues involved in the application of contemporary IT to project management

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Managing in multidisciplinary technical team environments
* Using IT-based project management tools and techniques effectively
* Emerging tools and techniques for managing information system projects
* Leadership and team management issues in technology-based project organizations
* Leading and managing internal and external project stakeholders in IT projects
* Management tools and techniques (including information systems) for capturing and sharing knowledge across projects
* Internet-based project management
* Developing state-of-the-art project organizations
* Knowledge management, mobilization, and skill building for project managers

Co-chairs:
Sue Newell (Primary Contact)
Bentley College
175 Forest Street, Morrison Building
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452-4705, USA
Phone: +1-781-891-2447
Email: snewell@bentley.edu

Joseph Weiss
Bentley College
175 Forest Street, Adamian Graduate Center
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452-4705, USA
Phone: +1-781-891-24215
Email: jweiss@bentley.edu

Jacky Swan
Warwick Business School
Warwick University
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Phone: +44-2476-524271
Email: jacky.swan@wbs.ac.uk