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On March 22, 2011 the IT Management group has discussed their research work with Professor Jerry Luftman. In the meeting we had a fruitful discussion about how should we develop our research and also about possibilities to cooperate in the research area of Business-IT Alignment. Professor Jerry Luftman has shown to have an interest in our research work and has given us many good ideas to explore. A picture from this meeting with Professor Jerry Luftman you could find below.
Professor Berner Lindström and Niklas Karlsson, PhD student visited K2-lab on Friday, March 18th. Prof. Lindström presented an overview of research activities at The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS) , Gothenburg university. We have many research interests in common in areas such as mobile learning, virtual learning environments, digital literacy, etc.
The WIDE project at K2Lab has started collaborating with Lindström and Karlsson, in a study concerning the use of social bookmarking and tag clouds in education. We are looking forward to analyzing some very interesting data together!
A paper titled “Analyzing the Integration between Requirements and Models in Model Driven Development” has been accepted for the EMMSAD 2011 Conference (http://www.emmsad.org/), which is held in conjunction with CAiSE 2011 in London, UK.
Authors: Iyad Zikra, Janis Stirna, Jelena Zdravkovic
Abstract: In Model Driven Development (MDD), models replace software code as the development artifact. At the same time, requirements represent the information that is elaborated in models. However, despite the tight relationship between models and requirements, only a few MDD approaches provide the necessary methodological guidelines and tool support to explicitly facilitate this relationship. In this paper, we analyze existing approaches for integrating requirements with models within MDD. Based on the analysis, we elicit a set of general properties that need to be fulfilled when considering the integration of requirements and models, and we assess the contribution of the considered approaches accordingly.
At the invitation of IT Management group within SYSLAB Professor Jerry Luftman has given on March 21, 2011 in Forum – Aulan an open seminar. A short description of the seminar topic and information about our distinguish guest speaker including his presentation you could find below.
Topic: IT-Business Strategic Alignment Maturity
The beginning of the 21st Century is marked by the continued penetration of Information Technology (IT) into all facets of the organization. Businesses, regardless of their size, cannot function without IT enabling/driving every activity, from traditional systems such as e-mail, accounting, payroll, and inventory management, to strategic applications that interact with customers and partners. In spite of recognizing the above, for over 30 years, aligning IT and business organizations have remained a pervasive and persistent problem. Professor Luftman has created an assessment of the maturity of this important relationship; in fact he has conducted assessments from over one-third of the global 1,000 companies. The purpose of this seminar will be to introduce attendees to the model and present some of the important benchmarking insights that have resulted from Professor Luftman’s research.
Speaker:
Professor Jerry Luftman is a Distinguished Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology New-York, USA, Wesley J. Howe School of Management. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Howe School’s Graduate Information Systems Programs. Professor Jerry Luftman’s career includes strategic positions in management (Information Technology and consulting), management consulting, Information Systems, and education. Dr. Luftman’s experience combines the strengths of practitioner, consultant, and academic. His proficiency in business-IT alignment, books, published research, consulting and teaching/speaking engagements further exemplify Dr. Luftman’s expertise and leadership in his field. After a notable twenty-two year career with IBM, he is currently a Distinguished Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology School of Management.
The pdf file of Professor Jerry Luftman’s presentation you could find here Luftman SAM MATURITY Stockholm
Sumithra Velupillai, fil.lic, obtained funding from Stockholm University for cooperation with the research group of associate professor Wendy Chapman at University of California, San Diego, (UCSD), USA.
The funding will be used for exchange of researchers between IT for Health, DSV and the UCSD School of Medicine’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, San Diego, USA. The research area is Health Informatics and specifically clinical text mining.
The research cooperation will start in May 2011 and carry on until December 2013.
Congratulations Sumithra!
Three papers written by the members of IT Management group were accepted for publication in the proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM2011), Seoul, South Korea (http://conf-irm2011.org) and in the proceedings of the 4th World Summit on Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011), Mykonos, Greece (http://www.wsks.org/).
The first paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Conf-IRM2011(published in AIS e-library) is having as authors: Johnny Flores Delgadillo, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson and is named “A Maturity Model of IT Service Delivery”. The paper is proposing a maturity model that is oriented to formalize and assess the maturity levels of IT service delivery. The maturity model is supported by IT service delivery elements that are considered significant for managing IT service delivery in the Nicaraguan Internet Service Providers sector, by IT service concepts and maturity model properties complemented by the IT Service Capability Maturity Model.
The second paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Conf-IRM2011 (published in AIS e-library) is having as authors Anayanci Lopez Poveda, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson and is named “Improving a Method for Analysing Information Technology Service Strategy in Governmental Organisations in Nicaragua: Ex-post Analysis”. The paper is presented the improvement of a method for analyzing IT service strategy from the perspective of the implementer and designer after the use of the method in the context of Governmental Organisations in Nicaragua.
The third paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of WSKS 2011 (published in Springer series in Communications in Computer and Information Science) is having as authors Hari Nugroho, Gamaludin Al Afghani, Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu and is named “Key Factors in Managing IT Outsourcing Relationships”. The paper is presented an analysis of the key factors in managing IT outsourcing relationships that were elicited from the IT outsourcing relationships research and which were applied in the case of three organizations in Sweden.
On 23 February, I gave a presentation on Unified Service Theory and perspectives on services as part of a study circle on service systems. Unified Service Theory views services as a special kind of production process where the customer contributes with her resources. This approach contrasts to earlier attempts to distinguish service through special properties like intangibility and perishability. The seminar also discussed additional perspectives on services based on the idea that the notion of service is best explained by identifying and associating a number of related concepts, including service processes, service resources and service agreements.
On 18 February, Göran Goldkuhl gave a presentation on practice research. Göran discussed practice research from an ontological as well as epistemological perspective. The discussion was lively ranging from Activity Theory over KPIs to Habermas, with a memorable remark from Göran, “some critique of Habermas acknowledges that life is more than an academic seminar”. Gustaf Juell-Skielse and Erik Perjons also contributed with their experiences of practice research.