Useful Lessons from My Career as an Academic in Information Systems

This “last lecture” is to my fellow academics in information systems. My lecture has two parts: Part I presents personal career advice for my colleagues. I have had many successes and some failures, and I have observed the careers of many faculty members and doctoral students. I will summarize my observations as actionable advice about being a successful academic while being a happy, contributing human being. The second part is how I see the future of our field. I have seen huge changes and there are more to come. I am optimistic, and I will share my views and the reasons for them with you

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A SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF PUBLICATIONS FOR PROMOTION OF MIS ACADEMICS

This article examines the role of publications as evidence for university promotion and postulates reasons why the academic publish or perish rule applies. A systematic approach to evaluation of an academic\u27s publication portfolio is described. The approach uses a four-step process for evaluating each publication: 1. Ranking of journal where article appeared or classification of book 2. Ranking of quality/impact 3. Evaluating effect of coauthors 4. Evaluating effect of multiple publication of same basic material Following the individual item evaluation, there is an overall evaluation of the publication portfolio for mix of articles and for rate of output. A method is suggested for applying this procedure in evaluating one\u27s own portfolio and developing a personal publication strategy for promotion

Information systems as an academic discipline : Looking back, looking forward, and ensuring the future

In an organization of any size, there is an organization function responsible for the technology, activities and personnel to support its technology-enabled work systems and the information and communication needs of the organization. There is an academic discipline that teaches those who build, acquire, operate and maintain the systems and those who use the systems. Both the organization function and the academic discipline have developed over a period of 55 years (but primarily in the last 40 years). There have been two fundamental forces driving the formation of a new organization function and the new technology-enabled systems in organizations. One is the availability of powerful computer and communications technology; the other is the desire of organizations to use the capabilities in organization work. The result has been revolutionary as new capabilities and new affordances have been applied to the activities of organizations. A new academic discipline has emerged. This period of rapid innovation in organizations has resulted in successes, challenges, failures, and surprises. I have been a participant and an observer of this period of change. The paper will survey key developments (from my perspective) that have brought us to the present conditions in use of information and communications technology in organizations and the current status of the academic discipline. I will note the role of IFIP TC8 (Information Systems). It has been important in several key developments, but not in all of them. I will identify some of my observations about the value added by TC8.The past and the future of information systems: 1976-2006 and beyondRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Structured COBOL

COBOL is a vital programming language for information processing. About 80 percent of all existing data processing applications in large corporation have been programmed in COBOL. Although many new application are being eritten with fourth generation languages, COBOL is still the dominant language for new applications, and all the old application must be maintened with repairs and enhancement in COBOL. Two courses in the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) model curriculum include COBOL as the language to be taught. Some understanding of COBOL is expected of virtually everyone who works in information systems

AIS President\u27s Report - 1998

This report presents the results to the end of 1998. It gives substance to the emergence of AIS as the international academic society for information systems

Useful Lessons from My Career as an Academic in Information Systems

This “last lecture” is to my fellow academics in information systems. My career spans the entire period of the adoption of information technology in organizations (from punched cards to the internet), the rise of the organization function of information systems, and the emergence of an academic field of IS (also called Management information Systems or MS). have had great opportunities to work with colleagues to: found an MS department, head an MS research center, create new S degrees and curricula, and write original books and manuals. I have been very involved with the Minnesota MS doctoral program as advisor to many doctoral students and on many dissertation committees. have been involved internationally and have been part of the leadership for our major S organizations. In my “last lecture” will address two topics. The first is how I see the future of our field. The second is some personal career advice for my younger colleagues. I have had many successes and some failures, and have observed the careers of many faculty members and doctoral students. I will summarize my observations as actionable advice about being a successful academic while being a happy, contributing human being

Lessons from a Preliminary Implementation of Curriculum \u2795 Course IS2: Personal Productivity with IS Technology

The Joint Curriculum Task Force of ACM/AIS/DPMA produced Curriculum \u2795 for undergraduate programs in Information Systems. One of the innovations in the curriculum was a second course: Personal Productivity with IS Technology. Although the curriculum describes the course, it is new and thereforeis not well-defined in terms of instructional materials, assignments, etc. A workshop to discuss the new course is both timely and important to AIS members. The recommended course focuses on improving productivity of individual knowledge workers by assisting them to achieve effective and efficient management of their individual information management systems. The relationship between individual systems and corporate systems is that of systems in the small versus systems in the large. Therefore, the course provides information useful to non-majors in managing their systems and to majors in learning to support users. The course offers an insightful overview of the entire system development process. The course is designed to achieve a balance between concepts and application of the concepts in practice. Technology concepts and characteristics are in order to focus students on long-term knowledge rather than transitory features. In this workshop we describe our implementation and experience with a similarcourse at the University of Minnesota. The course has now been presented to over 100 first-year MBA students. It is currently included in the MBA curriculum as an elective course for all MBA students and as a requirement for Management Information Systemsmajors. These experiences can be translated into pedagogy appropriate at the undergraduate level