The application submitted in this year to Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology (MIT) for Ph.D. funding for research in IT management at DSV/Stockholm University has been successfully. In the next five years DSV will receive 1.750.000 SEK from MIT for co-financing a Ph.D. position in IT management. For more information about Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology (MIT) please access the following link: http://www.mit.uu.se/
PhD position in IT Management at Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University
A PhD position in IT Management is now open at Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University. More information about this PhD position are available at this link: http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/vacancies-new-list
The deadline to submit the application for this PhD position is May 5, 2017!
Paper published in Procedia Computer Science, and papers accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, and in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49)
A paper written by Najla Al Qassimi and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “IT Governance in a Public Sector Organization in a Developing Country: A Case Study of a Governmental Organization”, has been published in Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 64, pp.450-456, 2015.
A paper written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Lazar Rusu, Erik Perjons, Karl-Johan Sedvall, and Murat Ekici and entitled: “Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden”, has been accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Article 3, 2015.
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu, and Shengnan Han and entitled: “The Influence of Organizational Culture on IT Governance Performance: Case of The IT Department in a Large Swedish Company“, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49), January 5-8, 2016, Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
Call for papers to IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track at 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016)
The 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016) is one the prestigious conference in information systems area and on next year this conference will be held from 12 to 15 of June, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey (http://www.ecis2016.eu/en/default.asp). As co-chair of IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track I would like to invite researchers who are interested in this track area to submit their papers till November 27, 2015. For more information about this track please access the following link: http://www.ecis2016.eu/files/downloads/Tracks/T19.pdf
Jens Ohlsson’s Licentiate Seminar
On March 9, 2015 our colleague Jens Ohlsson has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives by Prioritizing and Categorizing Business Processes”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Jens for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management
Shang Gao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China and Lazar Rusu from Stockholm University, Sweden are the editors of a recently published book by IGI Global that is entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”. The purpose of this book is to examine how modern techniques influence IT project management and their role in managing successfully IT projects. The book includes research studies that are examining important fields of IT project management like: agile project management, IT project alignment, strategic software project governance, risk in global IT projects, distributed IS development projects to mention only a few of them. The target audiences of this book are researchers and professionals working in the fields of project management, information systems, and IT project management. For more information about this book please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/book/modern-techniques-successful-project-management/118238?camid=3v11
Open Seminar with Dr. Dragos Vieru
On October 24, 2014 at DSV, Dr. Dragos Vieru from Distance Learning University of Quebec (Télé-Université du Québec), Canada has given an open seminar regarding “Working Under Grey Skies: Information Systems Development and Social Mechanisms in a Post-merger Context”. The seminar was organized by the IT Management group within IS unit at DSV. The slides of the presentation are available here Presentation-Dragos Vieru
A short description about our guest speaker and a picture from the seminar you could find below.
Speaker:
Dragos Vieru is an Assistant Professor at Distance Learning University of Quebec. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology at HEC Montréal and a MSc in MIS from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal. His research interests are in the areas of IT-enabled organizational change, knowledge sharing, and IT governance. Dragos Vieru has published papers in International Journal of Information Management (journal ranked ‘A’ in Information and Library Sciences category), the International Journal of Social & Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology and in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. He is chair of the minitrack (Organizational and Social Dynamics in Information Technology mini-track) at the AMCIS and co-chair of the same minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). He has over 15 years of professional experience in IT project management in the health care industry.
Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48)
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Ivan Nunes, Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi, entitled: “Does Organizational Culture Matter in IT Outsourcing Relationships?“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
A paper written by Mohamed El Mekawy, Lazar Rusu, Erik Perjons, Karl-Johan Sedvall and Murat Ekici entitled: “From Theory to Practice: Barriers to Business-IT Alignment in Organizations Acting in Sweden“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is a top ranked conference in Information Systems and is ranked “A” according to The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA) (http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806).
The publisher of the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is IEEE Computer Society: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/diglib.htm.