Sub-themes of the IT Conference 2005

Management of the Information Technology Function

Authors are invited to propose presentations that address one of the following subtopics:  

1. Risks and responsibilities

   • Assessment and risk management
   • Retooling of an IT organization and technical skills retention
   • Other

2. Human resources

   • Performance and applications quality measurement
   • Information management or knowledge management: the new informatics challenges within the knowledge economy
   • Strategies for the use of IT resources
   • Sharing of information and knowledge between IT partners
   • Learning plans
   • Human capital management as an informatics performance base
   • Appraisal of intangible informatics resources and impact on the business
   • Informatics projects managers’ roles and role conflict
   • Progressive model and computerization development management in business
   • Employees’ morale and relationship with informatics senior management
   • Other

3. IT governance

   • Information management governance models
   • View of different informatics function organization models and impact on productivity
   • Technology monitoring and information asset planning
   • Informatics function management best practices (ITIL…)
   • Other

4. Other management aspects

   • Optimizing organizational technology
   • Establishing priorities
   • Aligning IT resources with business priorities
   • Other

Technical Goods and Infrastructures

Authors are invited to propose presentations that address one of the following subtopics:

1. Assets and infrastructures

   • Deployment of IT assets
   • Management of software licenses
   • Management of patch programs
   • Management of clients devices
   • Provision of servers
   • Shared infrastructures (e.g. Secure Channel)
   • Security expenses: How much is enough?
   • Complete protection against spam without false positives
   • IT communications and support in regional offices
   • Other

2. Performance measures

   • Function point analysis
   • Balance scorecards
   • Post-mortem evaluation of IT projects
   • Informatics function maturity level assessment models (CMMI, P-CMM)
   • Evaluation of the value of an IT group and its contribution to an organization
   • Methods to measure efficiency of an IT group
   • Evaluating the leadership of an IT group within an organization
   • Evaluating the relationship between an IT group and other groups of an organization
   • Other

3. Quality

   • ITIL, Six Sigma
   • Service level agreements
   • Other

Applications Development and Maintenance

Authors are invited to propose presentations that address one of the following subtopics:

1. Risks and responsibilities

   • Legacy systems
   • Efficient ways of providing maintenance and support services to IT applications
   • Other

2. Application development and maintenance

   • Use of generalized solutions
   • Open Source software
   • Use of development frameworks
   • Shared systems (e.g. Canadian Government Financial Systems)
   • Use of standards and best practices
   • Rational Unified Process (RUP)
   • Web services
   • XML standards
   • Other

3. Enterprise architecture

   • How enterprise architecture contributes to your IT investment