Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprise Transformation Research

Abstract

This article summarizes the activity of the First International Workshop on Enterprise Transformation, hosted by the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology in March 2013. The workshop brought together researchers (faculty and students) from a wide range of disciplines (e.g., engineering, management, computing, and social science) and institutions to (1) discuss and define the scholarly challenges and opportunities for enterprise transformation research and (2) facilitate the development of an emerging interdisciplinary academic community. The results of the workshop highlight the particular complexities of conducting enterprise transformation research in an academic context and identify both near- and long-term opportunities for impactful future research.

Keywords:

• enterprise transformation
• challenges
• research opportunities
• theories
• industry/academia collaboration
• workshop

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to acknowledge the participants of the 2013 ENTR Workshop (in addition to the authors of this article): Serina Al-Haddad, Radu Babiceanu, Paul Baker, Canan Bilen-Green, Doug Bodner, William Bunting, Juan Carlos Mendez, Bill Cutts, Ashok Goel, Patrick Hester, Marija Jankovic, Ron Johnson, William Lawless, Abhay Mishra, Thomas Meyers, Rajiv Nag, Ben Reidy, George Sousa, Jeanne Vasterling, Luis Vergara, and Elaine Ward. We also would like to thank Ron Johnson, Kristi Kirkland, Marcia Chandler, Matt Sanders, Renata LeDantec, Bobby Strickland, Joseph Dreher, and the entire Tennenbaum Institute/Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) team at Georgia Tech for their contribution and help with organizing the workshop. Finally, we appreciate detailed suggestions for improving the contents of the article provided by William Bunting, Doug Bodner, and Joseph Barjis.