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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.
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
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.
Jelena and Constantinos have spent this week at University of Namur in Belgium.
Togheter with prof. Michael Petit we have been working on modeling Business Strategy in the scope of Requirements Engineering. The outcome will be the submission of several research papers.
Constantinos, Michael Petit and Jelena at University of Namur
For those interested in the presentation named “The effect of Critical Success Factors on IT governance performance in public sector organizations in a developing country” that took place on February 2, 2011 in the Open IS-seminar please access the following file: CSFs effect on IT Governance Performance – 2011-02-02
On January 31, 2011 our colleague Johnny Flores has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis named: “IT Service Delivery in Nicaraguan Internet Service Providers: Analysis and Assessment”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Johnny for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
(Participants from DSV were Helen Allvin, Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson, Maria Skeppstedt and Sumithra Velupillai.)
Trondheim
Hercules opening the meeting
Annotation
HEXAnord PhD course
St. Olavs hospital
Norwegian coffee
Usability lab
Usability lab
Two of the brave
Skiers
Nordic skiing collaboration
All participants, except Hercules, who is behind the camera