On February 19, 2016 our colleague Parisa Aasi has defended successfully her Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Organizational Culture and Structure Influence on Information Technology Governance”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Parisa for her achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”
Here is a call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management” (Editors: Shang Gao and Lazar Rusu) scheduled to be published by IGI Global in 2014. The book objective is to brings together the latest academic research and professional practice, covering aspects related to modern techniques for successful IT project management.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Virtual project management
- Agile project management
- Project success
- Risk management
- Outsourcing or distributed projects
- Project management methodologies
- Project quality metrics or standards
- IT project governance
- Project controlling practices
- Best practices in IT outsourced projects
- Relationships in IT outsourced projects
- Project lifecycle management
- Modeling approach for IT project management
- Managing IT outsourced projects
- Coordination of IT projects
- Theories used in IT project management
- Pedagogical issues on modern techniques for IT project management
Important Dates:
December 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
January 15, 2014: Notification of Acceptance
February 28, 2014: Full Chapter Submission
April 30, 2014: Review Results Returned
June 15, 2014: Final Chapter Submission
July 15, 2014: Final Deadline
For more information about this call for chapters please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1100
Open Seminar with Dr. Radu Mihalache on Strategic Sourcing
On April 4, 2013 at DSV, Dr. Radu Mihalache from VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada has given a seminar regarding Strategic Sourcing. The seminar was organized by the Center for Service Science and Innovation and IT Management group at DSV and is available on http://play.dsv.su.se.
Speaker:
Dr. Radu Mihalache is Assistant Professor at VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has received his doctoral degree from Erasmus University in 2012. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was concerning “Stimulating Innovation: The Roles of Offshoring and Leadership”. The finds of his research shows that firms’ innovation can be greatly increased through offshoring of services, but too much can cause harm. He also shows how leadership and sourcing of resources can hamper or enhance innovation competitiveness. Dr. Mihalache’s research work has been published in Strategic Management Journal and presented at international conferences such as Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business.
Call for papers to the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases: Special issue on Business, Strategy & IT Alignment
Here is a call for papers to the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jittc/index.html): Special issue on Business, Strategy & IT Alignment (Editors: Jerry Luftman, Lazar Rusu, & Martin Santana).
This special issue on IT business alignment cases will provide examples of successes and failures that demonstrate the importance of the IT business relationship. For this special issue, specific areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Best Practices in Business-IT Alignment
- Effective Communications
- Demonstrable Competency/Value Analytics
- Applicable Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Governance Processes
- Successful Partnerships
- Deployable Leading Edge IT Services; Scope & Architecture
- Successful Skills/HR Initiatives
- Exemplary IT Strategy Planning Activities
- Enablers and Inhibitors to Alignment
- Models for Managing Change
- Lessons in Organizational Design
- Strategic IT Initiatives (e.g., moves to digital business)
Deadlines:
We are targeting the special issue publication for December 2013. The time-line is:
- Abstracts of case – March 1st 2013
- Full case and teaching note submitted – June 1st 2013
- Reviews returned – July 1st 2013
- Second submission – August 30th 2013
- Final Acceptance – September 30th 2013
For more information about this call for papers please have a look here: JIT Teaching Cases – Call for papers
Papers accepted for publication in journals and in the proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2012
In this year a number of papers written by the members of IT management group and master students at KTH (that IT management group members has supervised on their master thesis work) were accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance and in the Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012).
The first paper is entitled “A Risk Based View of Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship for Large Multinational Companies “ and was written by Georg Hodosi, Lazar Rusu and Seungho Choo (former KTH-EMIS student). The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, IGI Global, 2012.
The second paper is entitled “The impact of different organizational cultures on IT outsourcing relationship management” and was written by Seyedeh Parisa Aasi (KTH-EMIS student), Ivan Nunes (KTH-EMIS student), Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, IGI Global, 2012.
The third paper is entitled “An Organizational Culture Perspective in Business-IT Alignment” and was written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Ehsan Kaboudvand (former KTH-EMIS student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, IGI Global, 2012.
The fourth paper is entitled “Important Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship, a Model Development and Verification in Major National Companies”, and was written by Georg Hodosi, Rickard Rickmo (former KTH-IT student), Jan-Kamil Rembisch (former KTH-IT student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 9-11, 2012.
Open Seminar with Professor Wim Van Grembergen
At the invitation of IT management group Professor Wim Van Grembergen from University of Antwerp, Belgium has given on February 23, 2012 in Sal C, at DSV an open seminar. The topics of the seminar were regarding Enterprise Governance of IT and COBIT 5. A short description about our distinguish guest speaker and his presentation is below included.
Speaker:
Wim Van Grembergen (PhD) is a professor and Chair of the Information Systems Management Department at the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA) and at the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS). He teaches information systems at bachelor, master, and executive levels and researches in IT governance, IT strategy, IT performance management, and IT balanced scorecard. Within his IT Alignment and Governance (ITAG) Research Institute (www.uams.be/itag) he also conducts applied research in these domains. Dr. Van Grembergen is a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings and conferences and serves in a consulting capacity to a number of firms. He has several publications in leading journals and published books on IT governance and IT balanced scorecard. In 2009, he co-authored with Steven De Haes the book Enterprise Governance of IT: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value (Springer).
The pdf files of his presentation you could find here Wim Van Grembergen EGIT and Wim Van Grembergen COBIT 5
Papers accepted for presentation at the 2011 European Security Conference in Örebro
Seven papers have been presented at the 2011 European Security Conference in Örebro, Sweden, that took place on June 13th and 14th, 2011. The Conference is a European extension of the Annual Security Conference that has been held in Las Vegas (USA) for over a decade. The conference attracts a nice mix of participants from academia, government and industry. The theme of the 2011 event was identity and privacy management. The presented papers:
- Viola Kanule, Geoffrey Karokola, Jeffy Mwakalinga and Stewart Kowalski – Secure e-Government Adoption:A Case Study for Tanzania
- Margaretha Eriksson, Helena Granlund, Louise Yngström and Jonas Hallberg – On the Information Security Posture in an Government Agency – a Longitudinal Study 2008-2011
- Wätterstam Tove, Stewart Kowalski and Robert Hoffmann – A Case Study in Security Mental Models at Swedish Government Agency
- Bilal Al Sabbagh and Stewart Kowalski – A Comparison Study of information security cultures of IT workers and Social Network users in Saudi Arabia
- Ulrika Norman and Stewart Kowalski – Back to School: Integrate Information Security and IT ethics educations in to the Swedish School Systems: A Survey Study
- Rostyslav Barabanov, Stewart Kowalski and Louise Yngström – Information Security Metrics: Research Directions
- Chigozie Nwogu Nwogu and Stewart Kowalski – A case study of reusing an electronic voting system Protection Profile from Europe to an African country
Guest lecture: Forensic Science and Information Systems
SEClab invites students, researchers, practitioners and staff to a Guest lecture by Dr Colin Armstrong, from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia on the theme “Forensic Science and Information Systems”.
Time: June 16 at 16.00
Place: Lecture hall C, Forum, Isafjordsgatan 39
Background: Dr Colin Armstrong’s research in forensic science at the University of Western Australia encompass the design and evaluation of a meta model for organizing and managing forensic evidence processes. From the statement “Evidence is the basis for our decision making” meaning that evidences have to be seen in relation to the law, the forensic science is in main focus; forensic scientists use scientific processes ultimately to produce data eventually to become evidence. However, the understanding of law enforcers and the judiciary of what constitutes evidence is not necessarily the same as that of forensic scientists. Within information science the understanding is that raw data organized with some purpose in mind brings information – and parts of that information may in turn be used for decision making. So, in order to form processes adequate for organizing scientific data into information and further into sound basis for decision making within a court specific, detailed and voluminous data must be collected and undergo various systematic procedures. The vision is to have an information system for collecting, processing, storing, maintaining and presenting the decision making material. This would call for at least some common references, vocabularies and definitions to use; however, even though we live in a globalised world, laws and legal systems differ and the area suffers from few and scattered policies, standards and taxonomies to be applied for the management of forensic evidence. Therefore, this piece of research potentially breaks new ground s and contributes with widening – yet structuring – the field of knowledge of forensic science.
The main research question answered is What necessary components are needed for such a tactical management model. The sub questions answered during the cause of the research concern What are the underlying criteria or attributes, How can these be organized into a tactical model, and How do the components of the model interrelate to contribute to the whole model.
About the lecturer: Dr Colin Armstrong is presently a lecturer at the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, where he lectures and advises master students in information security and forensics. Prior to his university career he was the communication specialist with the Flying Doctors in Australia. He holds a BSc in Communication and IT from Edith Cowan University, a Master by Research in Information Systems from Curtin University and a PhD from the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Western Australia.
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