The International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ICIME) provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners to come together to develop their understanding of both theory and practice in all aspects of IT/IS management and evaluation. The wide scope of ICIME reflects the increased use of technology to manage information in and between organizations of all types and sizes across the globe. ICIME 2011 will provide opportunities for people working and researching in the field to come together both formally and informally to share their knowledge and expertise.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-

Evaluation topics:
§ The evaluation of e-commerce and e-business
§ Evaluating intranets and knowledge management
§ Evaluation of e-government initiatives
§ Research methods for IT/IS evaluation
§ The evaluation of IT projects
§ Architecture compliance evaluation
§ Validation
§ Information retrieval systems
§ Process orientated evaluation
§ Frameworks
§ Evaluation of ICT for development projects
§ Auditing IS/IT systems and implementations
§ Using ICT to evaluate academic performance
§ The psychology of evaluation.
§ Benefit management
§ The evaluation of open source systems
§ The evaluation of ERP systems
§ “Green” IT
§ General evaluation methodologies
§ The evaluation of IT investments
Management topics:
§ Decision making processes for new investments
§ e-Procurement
§ The management of IT benefits, costs and risks
§ Human and organisational aspects of IT/IS
§ The management of IS development and IT departments
§ Risk management strategies
§ IS security
§ Global aspects of IS/IT
§ Multi-site implementation
§ The impact of IS on work and organisations
§ IS/IT management practice
§ Records management
§ e-Commerce
§ Computer based training
§ Customer loyalty programmes and reward systems.
§ Business intelligence
§ The management of IT investments
§ The management of “green” IT
§ Enterprise architecture management
§ Change management
§ Work-integrated learning

ICT in SMEs topics:

§ SME management strategy and ICT use
§ ICT implementation in SMEs

§ SME business clusters and ICT
§ ICT management practices within SMEs

§ Benchmarking ICT best practices in SMEs
§ The effective use of new technologies in SMEs

§ ICT performance appraisal and evaluation in SMEs
§ The impact of EU, national and regional policies for ICT on SMEs

§ Software (ERP, CRM, etc) for SMEs
§ ICT help and support for SMEs

§ SME workforce skills for ICT
§ Use of ICT by SMEs within supply chain networks

§ Electronically mediated collaboration between SMEs
§ Use of e-business in SMEs

§ Website design for SMEs
§ Business process re-design in SMEs

§ ICT risk and security for SMEs
§ ICT use and consolidation in SMEs

§ ICT investment decisions in SMEs (including appraisals methods, the role of vendors, other sources of advice, etc)
§ Data warehousing and its application in SMEs