Carol Brown

Carol V. Brown, Ph.D., has fostered academic-practitioner linkages over the past two decades as a research scholar, developer of new curricula, and educator. In July 2007 she joined the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, as a Distinguished Professor following a 17-year tenure at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She co-authors a leading textbook for graduate students (Managing Information Technology, 6th edition, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2009) and is the current Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly Executive. Carol’s field research focuses on IS strategy and management topics of interest to senior IS leaders and has been sponsored by Fortune 500 companies, including members of the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her co-authored research on mergers & acquisitions includes case studies of IT integration projects for mergers-of-equals as well as smaller acquisitions.

Wendy Currie

Wendy Currie is professor and director of the International Policy and Technology Research Unit at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. She has over twenty years’ experience of research, teaching and consultancy in the area of business technology policy, strategy, audit, evaluation and implementation. She is on the editorial board of 10 scholarly journals and has published 10 books and over 150 research papers. Her current research focuses on eHealth policy, technology and implementation and governance and regulation in financial services. In 2005, she set up the MSc Information Systems and Management course at Warwick University which recruits over 70 students each year. She is Hon Treasurer of an educational charity, the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, which publishes the Postgraduate Medical Journal, and also a Trustee of the Cardiovascular Research Trust. She works closely with Warwick Medical School on projects to diffuse enabling technology to medical professionals.

Jan Damsgaard

Professor Jan Damsgaard is the director of Center for Applied Information and Communication Technology (CAICT) at Copenhagen Business School. CAICT actively builds partnerships with companies through numerous research projects. Professor Damsgaard´s research focuses on the diffusion and implementation of networked IT such as intranets, inter-organizational information systems, software packages and mobile and wireless technologies.

Wim van Grembergen

Wim Van Grembergen is a full professor at the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA) and executive professor at the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS). He teaches information systems at bachelor, master and executive level, and researches in IT governance, IT strategy, IT performance management and the IT balanced scorecard. Within his IT Alignment and Governance (ITAG) Research Institute (www.uams.be/itag) he conducts research for ISACA/ITGI on IT governance and supports the continuous development of COBIT and VAL IT. Currently he is evolved in the development of COBIT5. Dr. Van Grembergen is a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings and conferences and has served in a consulting capacity to a number of firms. He has several publications in leading academic journals and published books on IT governance and the IT balanced scorecard. His most recent book “Enterprise Governance of IT. Achieving strategic alignment and value” is published in 2009 (Springer, New York). His e-mail address is: wim.vangrembergen@ua.ac.be

Leon A. Kappelman

Professor Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D. is a research scientist, teacher, author, speaker, and consultant dedicated to helping organizations better manage their information and technology. His research, publications, and presentations in software project management and enterprise architecture are known around the world. Some of the enterprises he has worked with include ACS/Xerox; CIA; CIGNA; City of LA; Coca-Cola; CA; Department of Veteran Affairs; EDS/HP; Executive Office of the President of the USA; Experian; GTE/Verizon; HoneyBaked Ham Company; Honor Technologies; IBM; JCPenney; Kraft Foods; LDS Church, McDermott; Milliken; Prudential; SAIC; State of Oklahoma; State of Texas; Texaco; Treasury Department of Canada; United Nations; Wells Fargo; and World Bank. His pro bono work includes testifying on high-tech issues several times before the US Congress, participating in White House industry round tables, serving on the American Heart Association’s IT Expert Panel, editing a book on enterprise architecture and four books on solving Y2K, and founding and chairing the Society for Information Management’s Enterprise Architecture and Year 2000 Working Groups.

Sirkka L. Järvenpää

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa is the James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin where she is the director of the center for Business, Technology, and Law. During 2008-2012, she holds Finnish Distinguished Professorship at Aalto University School of Science and Technology. She has held visiting professorships in leading business schools in the U.S. and Asia. She is  the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Association for Information Systems and as the senior editor of  Organization Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. She is a recipient of two honorary doctoral degrees.  She is a frequent contributor in academic and  industry forums on new industry architectures for digitizing industries (information, entertainment, financial etc), inter-organizational innovation, and globally dispersed virtual collaboration.

M. Lynne Markus

M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley University. She is also a Research Affiliate of MITSloan’s Center for Information Systems Research. Professor Markus’s teaching, research, and consulting interests include enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, IT governance, and IT-enabled organization change. She is the author/editor of five books and over one hundred articles; her research has been supported by numerous government and industry grants. She was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004 and received the AIS LEO Award for Exceptional Lifetime Achievement in Information Systems in 2008. www.bentley.edu/faculty/mlynnemarkus

Ephraim R. Mclean

Dr. Ephraim R. McLean is the Chair of the Computer Information Systems Department, a Regents’ Professor, and the G. E. Smith Eminent Scholar’s Chair in Information Systems, all in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Prior to joining GSU in 1987, he was on the faculty at UCLA for 18 years; and before that he worked in industry for Procter & Gamble, first as a manufacturing manager and later, starting in 1962, as a computer systems analyst. This is his 48th year in the computer field. He has published over 130 articles in such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of MIS, and others. He is the co-author or co-editor of seven books, including Strategic Planning for MIS, Management of Information Systems, and Information Technology for Management. He was a founding Associate Editor for Research of the MIS Quarterly and for seven years was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of DATABASE. In 1980, Dr. McLean co-chaired the organizing committee for the International Conference on Information Systems and was three times ICIS Conference Chair or Co-chair. He is also one of the founders of the Association for Information Systems and served as the AIS Executive Director for nine years. In 1999, he was named an AIS Fellow and in 2007 was recognized with the LEO Lifetime Achievement Award. He earned his B.M.E. and M.E. degrees at Cornell University and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

Michael zur Muehlen

Michael zur Muehlen directs the Center for Business Process Innovation at Stevens Institute of Technology and is responsible for the graduate curriculum in Business Process Management and Service Innovation. Michael supports both the Information Systems and Service Management & Engineering programs in the School of Technology Management and teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Michael has over fifteen years of experience in the field of process innovation and workflow management, and has conducted numerous reengineering projects in the public and private sector, both in the United States and Europe. He serves as an advisor to the Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Business Mission Area. Michael actively participates in standardization efforts and in 2004 was named a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition, where he chairs the working group “Management and Audit”. He has worked with the Object Management Group on standardizing the Business Process Modeling Notation and the CORBA Workflow Facility. His research focuses on techniques that help organizations analyze their operational performance and design better Information Systems. This includes the tailoring of Enterprise Architecture standards to match organizational requirements, the practical use of process modeling standards, techniques to manage operational risks in business processes, and the integration of business processes and business rules. He has also published widely on BPM standards and standard making in general. SAP Research, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Australian Research Council, and private sponsors have funded his research. Michael is the author of a book on workflow-based process controlling and numerous articles on process management and workflow automation. He has presented his research in more than 20 countries and is a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at academic and industry conferences. His presentations have been viewed online more than 30,000 times. Michael is a founding director of the Association of Information Systems special interest group on process automation and management and serves on the board of directors of Stevens Institute of Technology’s WebCampus online learning operation. Michael holds a PhD and an MS in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany.

Chris Sauer

Chris Sauer is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology and has held a number of posts within the international community of Information Systems academics. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Information Systems Journal. He has been an Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly, Regional Editor of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, IT Editor of the Australian Journal of Management and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He was Founding Secretary and subsequently Deputy-Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.6 on Information Technology Transfer and Diffusion (1994-2001). Prior to coming to Oxford, Chris acted as Deputy-Director of the Fujitsu Centre for Managing IT in Organisations at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney. In his early career, he worked as an IT professional designing, building and implementing large IT systems.

Ajay Vinze

Ajay Vinze is the Davis Distinguished Professor of Business at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU). He is also the Founder of the Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology (CABIT) – an industry facing research center that builds public, private and academic alliances through collaborative projects. In addition to his academic responsibilities at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Professor Vinze maintains an active international agenda. He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2008-2013) with an initial assignment with the Ekonomski fakultet u Sarajevu – University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to joining ASU, Professor Vinze served on the faculty at Mays Graduate School of Business, Texas A&M University (1988-98). He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1988. Professor Vinze’s research focuses on technology enablement for emergency preparedness and response, health information technology and health information exchange, security/privacy issues for e-health and collaborative computing. Dr. Vinze’s research typically drives from an active collaboration with public and private sector organizations. Most recently Dr. Vinze led a team to develop an information system to handle H1N1 vaccine distribution for Maricopa County. His publications have appeared in many of the leading scholarly journals including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Health Affairs and various IEEE Transactions. Professor Vinze’s has taught extensively in the US and internationally. Dr. Vinze regularly interfaces with organizations in the US – Arizona Government IT Agency, Arizona Department of Health Services, Avnet, CHW, Cisco, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems, and internationally in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia and Trinidad and Tobago. Before joining the academic environment, he was an IT consultant based out of Manila, Philippines. He can be contacted at Ajay.Vinze@asu.edu or (480) 965-6685.

Rolf T. Wigand

Rolf T. Wigand is the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research addresses information management, electronic commerce and markets, IS standards and the strategic deployment of information and communication technology. He is the author of five books and has published in such journals as Sloan Management Review, Electronic Markets, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of MIS, The Information Society and Telecommunications Policy. His research has been supported for many years by the National Science Foundation, the German National Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and others.He holds a Ph. D. in Communication from Michigan State University. http://www.ualr.edu/rtwigand

Leslie Wilcocks

Leslie Wilcocks has an international reputation for his work on e-business, information management, IT evaluation and information systems outsourcing. He is Professor in Technology Work and Globalization, Director of the Outsourcing Unit at the Department of Management at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Associate Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor In Information Systems at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and at University of Melbourne. He holds a doctorate in information systems from the University of Cambridge, and has been for the last 20 years Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology. He is also Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Institute of Personnel Development. He is co-author of 33 books including most recently The Outsourcing Enterprise (Palgrave, 2010) Outsourcing Global Services (Palgrave, 2008), Major Currents in Information Systems (Sage, 2008, six volumes), Information Systems and Outsourcing: Studies in Theory and Practice (Palgrave 2009), The Practice of Outsourcing: From IT to BPO and Offshoring (Palgrave, 2009), The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring (Palgrave, September 2009); China’s Emerging Outsourcing Capabilities (Palgrave, 2010). He has published over 180 refereed papers in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, MISQ Executive, Journal of Management Studies, Public Administration, Communications Of The ACM, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. In February 2001 he won the PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Michael Corbett Associates World Outsourcing Achievement Award for his contribution to this field. He is a regular keynote speaker at international practitioner and academic conferences, has extensive consulting experience, and has been retained as adviser and expert witness by major corporations and several government institutions in the UK, USA and Australia.