News and Events
Today, Mohamed El-Mekawy PhD student in IT Management group at DSV has nailed his PhD thesis in DSV library. The PhD thesis is entitled “From Theory to Practice of Business-IT Alignment: Barriers, an Evaluation Framework and Relationships with Organisational Culture”. A copy of his PhD thesis is available to be downloaded at the following link: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:920065/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Mohamed El-Mekawy’s PhD defence will take place on June 3, 2016 at 13.00 in L50 at DSV.
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.
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:
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
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.
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:
Deadlines:
We are targeting the special issue publication for December 2013. The time-line is:
For more information about this call for papers please have a look here: JIT Teaching Cases – Call for papers
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.
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
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:
SEClab Team, Örebro ESC2011