Focus

For the fourth time, the minitrack “Social Information Systems” promotes the scientific exchange on social information systems, in particular regarding the economic, organizational and technological challenges. Possible themes are, but are not limited to:

· How can organizations leverage social information systems to create business value (e.g. in productivity or cost efficiencies) ?

· Which kind of actions could be used to foster interactions if a certain dimension of the business value should be strengthened?

· How current business processes and workflow have to be modified in order to leverage social information systems in the most effective way?

· Can social information systems improve business processes and workflows beyond business value increase and include value, meaning, and engagement for their users (or stakeholders)?

· Is any type of associated methodology that helps to improve productivity in the social information systems and align them with the strategic aims of the company?

· How can users of social systems be motivated to participate?

· How does the use of a specific social information system influence the organization?

· How is it possible to measure the value created by emergent interactions in a quantitative way?

· Which types of emerging interactions are used in which applications?

· Which kinds of new business models are enabled by social information systems and how is this accomplished?

· How are social information systems used to create platforms and exchanges?

· Are there other types of emergent interactions?