Exploring the grand challenges for next generation e-business

While Information Systems continue to transform organizations, organizational IT infrastructures and business models are themselves beginning to change. There is an increased focus on service orientation and performance levels of IT infrastructures and systems. Outsourcing and offshoring strategies are evolving to include utility based approaches to computing. These developments are showing promises of a renewed period of innovative thinking in e-business technologies. This workshop will engage IT researchers to explore and respond to the grand challenges of next generation e-business systems.