Agenda for the CMISS Fall 2005 Retreat

To be held at the University of Oklahoma Campus, Norman, Oklahoma on October 13-14, 2005

October 13, Thursday

Associates Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union

1:00 pm – Welcome (Dan Wren, Interim Dean, Price College of Business)

1:15 pm – Introductory Remarks (Bob Dauffenbach, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs,

    Price College of Business)

1:30 pm – Roundtable Discussion: Current IT Challenges Facing Member Firms

                 (Facilitated by Bob Zmud, Price Chair in MIS)

3:30 pm – Break

4:00 pm – Faculty Presentation: “Turn On, Log In, Drop Out: Preventing Productivity Loss in

                 Technology-Supported Teams” (Laku Chidambaram, Executive Director of CMISS)

4:30 pm – Student Presentation: “Experiences from an OU IT Project” (Graduate Student Team)

4:45 pm – Student Presentation: “Fellowship Experiences” (Cassie Cole & Lin Hicks, Undergraduate MIS Majors)

5:00 pm – Adjourn

Commons Area, Price Hall

5:30 pm – Cocktails

6:00 pm – Dinner

Room 2020, Price Hall

7:00 pm – Keynote Speech: “Avoiding Common IT Pitfalls (A Survivor's Guide)” (Tom

    Halbouty, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Pioneer Natural Resources)

October 14, Friday

Room 3040, Price Hall

 8:30 am – Continental Breakfast
 8:45 am – Update on CMISS (Laku Chidambaram, Executive Director, CMISS)
 9:00 am –  Roundtable Discussion (Facilitated by Bob Zmud, Price Chair in MIS)

     1. Have your organizations done any reassessment of disaster recovery since the

     Katrina/Rita hurricanes?

     2. Are you developing a service-oriented architecture, e.g., web services? If so, how?

10:30 am – Break

10:45 am – Faculty Presentation: “Getting a Bigger Bang For Your IT Investment: The Role of

      Complementarity” (Bob Zmud, Price Chair in MIS, Shaila Miranda, Associate

      Professor of MIS, Yong-Mi Kim, MIS Doctoral Student)
11:15 am – White-paper Presentation: “Effectively Leading Self-Managed Virtual Teams” (Traci Carte, Associate Professor of MIS)

11:30 am – Student Presentation: "A Field Project at Chesapeake Energy" (Undergraduate Team)
11:45 am – Research and Membership Updates (Shaila Miranda, Associate Director of Research

      & Leon Price, Associate Director of Membership)
12:00 noon – Adjourn

Faculty Club, Oklahoma Memorial Union

12:15 pm – Lunch