Dr. Pisanty has held, among others, the following positions at UNAM: Head of the Postgraduate Studies of the Chemistry School; Coordinator of the Distance Education Program, and Coordinator of the Open University and Distance Education at UNAM. As a Technical Secretary of the Computing Advisory Board, he has been part of UNAM's efforts to increase its computer equipment from 2,500 to nearly 58,0000 computers, extending computer networks with constant renovation politics for an integral planning of computer systems, telecommunication networks, informatics security, and spam combat. He is…
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This article takes agility out of its normal domain of product development into the world of research, where its use is not at all obvious. They outline the cultural blockers, note the obvious mismatches to ordinary agility, and describe how they adapted both the ceremonies of traditional agility and their own culture to form an effective final mixture.
June 25, 2019 | Authored By: Lisa May, Tamara Runyon
In this Executive Update, we describe the application of Scrum in the restaurant business. This environment is similar to that of Lean hardware Scrum, in that shifts are repeatedly creating and delivering products in short cycles with high quality. Process efficiency and cycle time become the key metrics for production.
September 19, 2019 | Authored By: Riccardo Mariti, Jeff Sutherland
Magesh Kasthuri is a Distinguished Senior Member Technical Staff and Principal Consultant of the Cloud Practice at Wipro Limited. He is a Blockchain Council Certified Blockchain Expert v2, an Azure-Certified Architect, an AWS-Certified Associate Architect, and an IBM-Certified Big Data Architect. Dr. Kasthuri has published papers in blockchain, cloud technology, DevOps, and digital transformation architecture in international journals and conferences and has been granted patents in the areas of cloud, DevOps, machine learning, and blockchain. Dr. Kasthuri earned a PhD in deep learning and…
Aurelio Ravarini is Director of CETIC, Research Center on Information Systems, at the Università Cattaneo (LIUC, Italy), where he is also Senior Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering and Director of the advanced course on service-oriented management engineering at the master level. His research expertise is in strategic information systems, knowledge management systems, and information systems development, the latter of which is focused on small and medium-sized companies. Dr. Ravarini is Visiting Professor at IESEG (France) and the University of Aarhus (…
Benjamin L. Schooley is a Research Faculty member at the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Schooley's research and professional work has addressed several substantive areas, including electronic healthcare systems, emergency management and disaster preparedness, e-commerce development and strategy, regional technology planning, and e-government deployment. His recent work on performance management information systems for emergency medical response has received national funding from the NSF and the US Department of Transportation and includes…
Nick de Voil is the founder and Managing Director of De Voil Consulting, an information systems and customer experience consultancy based in the UK. The firm helps organizations design business processes that deliver excellent customer experience. Mr. de Voil has delivered projects for such organizations as the British Library, BT, Cambridge University, Channel 4, Sky Television, and UBS. He has spoken on these and general management topics at numerous conferences in the UK and Italy. Mr. de Voil holds a BA (first class with distinction) from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in…
Phil Zwieg is currently a principal with Z-Sharp, LLC, a personal consulting business that focuses on offshoring, IT strategy, IT measurement, and IT organization. He recently retired as a VP in the Information Systems department at Northwestern Mutual, where he was responsible for all infrastructure and IT operations activities. Prior to joining Northwestern, he was head of the Information Systems organization at We Energies. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his MBA from Marquette University. He has completed work…
Gianni Maria Strada is a Professor of Organization and Change Management for the School of Engineering at the Università Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC, Italy), where he is also a member of the CETIC Scientific Committee. Mr. Strada is also Managing Partner at PeoplePoint, a small HR consulting boutique that helps clients undertake major organizational changes. He has formally been HR Director for various US corporations on both a national and global level. He can be reached at giannimaria.strada@gmail.com.
Lanse E. LaVoy is the Director of Information Protection and Security at DTE Energy, a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide, where he leads an organization that provides information security, risk, and compliance services to the enterprise. He has worked in a variety of IT roles, including security, developer, systems analyst, project manager, and solution engineering manager across many industries. Mr. LaVoy is passionate about both software engineering and security and sees multiple…
Tom Butler is a Professor in the Department of Business Information Systems at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He has over 200 publications in leading IS journals and conferences and a range of other outlets. Dr. Butler has been awarded more than US $9.5 million in research funding and has several technology innovations to his name. He is a global thought leader in regtech and a member of the expert group on fintech innovation for the European Union’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Dr. Butler earned a PhD and a master’s of…
George V. Taskasaplidis is a member of the technical staff at the Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia, where his main research interests concern Web 2.0 technologies. Mr. Taskasaplidis is currently an MSc candidate in computing science at Paisley University (Scotland). He can be reached at taskasaplidis@kastoria.teikoz.gr or taskasaplidis@gmail.com.
David Biros is Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems and Fleming Chair of Information Technology Management at Oklahoma State University. A retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US Air Force, Dr. Biros’s last assignment was as Chief Information Assurance Officer for the AF-CIO. His research interests include deception detection, insider threat, information system trust, and ethics in information technology. Dr. Biros has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Group Decision…
Markus Warg is Professor of Leadership, Service Design, and Risk Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Wedel (Germany). He created the Service Dominant Architecture (SDA) and is the board chairman of SDA SE. Dr. Warg heads the Institute for Service Design, which brings together world-leading service scientists to generate valuable impulses for practice from theory. He is a former board member of various insurance companies, including Mannheimer AG Holding, Deutscher Ring, and Signal Iduna. He can be reached at markus.warg@ifsd.hamburg.
Luca Mari is Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurement at the Università Cattaneo (LIUC, Italy), where he teaches measurement science and statistical data analysis, system theory, and computer network programming. At LIUC, Dr. Mari heads the Department of Quantitative Methods and the Laboratory on RFID Systems; he is also the coordinator of the PhD school. He is the Chairman of Technical Committee 7 (Measurement Science) of the International Measurement Confederation as well as an IEC expert in the WG2 (VIM) of the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology of the Bureau…
Kate M. Kaiser has been involved in information technology as a practitioner, researcher, faculty member, and consultant for 35 years. She is researching the future IT skill needs and the impact of offshore outsourcing from Ireland, Russia, and India through research grants from the Sloan and 3M Foundations. Dr. Kaiser has served on the faculty of McGill University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University College Dublin, and Marquette University and has worked for Giga Information Group on its Y2K team.
She has been published in MIS Quarterly Executive, MIS…
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Brian Donnellan is Professor of IS Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), and Co-Director of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI). The IVI researches and develops unifying frameworks and roadmaps for IT and business executives to create more value from IT and better deliver IT-enabled innovation whilst validating that these frameworks/tools have a broad applicability across differing industries and contexts. To address the need for an overarching IT business value framework, IVI, under the core themes of IT value and IT innovation, advances methodologies, tools…
Thomas A. Horan is Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Horan has over 20 years' experience in studying organizational and community impacts of information technology, including leading several research studies on emergency response. He currently directs two interdisciplinary technology institutes: Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI) and Kay Center for E-Health Research. In this capacity, Dr. Horan leads a portfolio of research studies funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF),…
Mary J. Culnan is the Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Her current research interests include privacy, promoting security on home computers, and online communities. She is the author of more than 90 articles including publications in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, The Information Society, Management Science, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Professor Culnan has testified before the US Congress, the Massachusetts House and…