“The
Evolving Strategic Role of Information Systems Departments in Business Schools".
The 1980s saw the emergence
of MIS departments in business schools followed by a phase of rapid growth and
strengthening during the technology boom of the 1990s. These trends were
premised on the acceptance that information technology was the new central
nervous system of modern business and that dedicated IS professors were required
to understand this phenomenon from a research perspective and to communicate it
to students at all levels. The first decade of this century has seen a decline
in IS enrolments, maturity in the sophistication of IS research, and the growth
of colleges of informatics outside the traditional business school. Given these
changes, it is now imperative that M(IS) departments reassess their strategic
role within the modern business school. This includes rethinking how we relate
to our colleagues in the other areas of business, proactively reshaping the
strategic frames by which they view us, and even questioning our historical
roles. This includes pondering the following critical question: “Are we the IS
department of the business school or that of the whole university?” This panel
will take a historical perspective to our development as a discipline and
project into the future to make predictions about the changing strategic role of
IS departments in the coming years.
Speakers:
Prof. Joerg Becker
Prof. Dimitris Kariagannis
Dimitris Kariagannis Presentation
Prof. David Paradice
Prof. Blaize Reich
Prof. Stanlislaw Wrycza
Moderator: Prof.