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Management Information Systems (MIS)
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Members
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Main topics
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Software Architectures
This group has focused on identifying principles, patterns and other methodological elements for building software architectures for enterprise systems.
The principles define the rules according to which software architectures have to be built so that there are no combinatorial explosions in the impacts of pre-defined basic changes to the system. Systems that comply with the principles are called normalized systems. The patterns form a constructive proof that normalized systems, containing common basic functionality of enterprise systems, can be actually be built in practice. It is noteworthy that these principles are independent of specific programming or modeling languages, software packages or any kind of hype in the ICT sector.
Normalized systems are a specific way of viewing service-oriented architectures (SOA), which are currently prevalent in academic literature. Indeed, the essence of SOA can be described as a new way of building high-level designs. Unfortunately, there are at this moment very few guidelines or laws on how this should be done, which is a major shortcoming. The principles described above can be seen as a contribution to solving this problem, demonstrating the technical-scientific relevance of this research.
The objective of this line of research is to achieve ''straight through processing''. This term is used to refer to the tight coupling between a change at the organizational level, which is propagated straight to the architectural and implementation level.
This line of research integrates previous research by Herwig Mannaert on software architectures and their implementation with Jan Verelst''s research on evolvability of conceptual models and design models of information systems.
Several PhD students are active in this line of research. A new, related research topic is the influence of SOA on outsourcing, which is the subject of PhD-level research.
Governance and Alignment
In the present dynamic knowledge based economy, ICT is playing an increasingly important role in the management of transactions, information and knowledge. In many companies ICT is an integral part of the business and fundamental to the support, durability and development of economic and social activity.
Starting from this observation, the managerial research group wants to execute and report on consumable research that is based on scientific models and relevant for practice. The focus areas for the research are models and best practices in the fields of "business governance of ICT" and "business/ICT alignment".
The ''managerial'' research area focuses on ICT Governance and its structures,
processes and relational mechanisms. Specific attention is paid to the Balanced Scorecard as a performance measurement and management system for ICT.
Currently, there are three major research directions: ICT governance practices, the relationship between business and ICT goals, the business value of ICT related business projects, and the further development of an ICT control standard (COBIT).
Other topics
These topics, all PhD-level research, were determined previously to the development of the vision mentioned above, and were not specifically aligned with it.
- Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software
- E-sourcing adoption
- Ubiquitous computing
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Website
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http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*MIS&n=20963
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Projects
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Show the projects of this research team - Designing enterprises for evolvability: an integrated approach based on fundamental engineering concepts. 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014
| Abstract | Contemporary organizations are operating in a hypercompetitive environment, in which they are faced with challenges such as increasing complexity and increasing change in many or all of their aspects. Current methodologies for the development of information systems supporting these organizations are clearly unable to deal with these levels of changing complexity. Normalized Systems (NS) theory proposes a theoretical framework that explains why current modular structures in information systems are intrinsically limited in terms of evolvability, as well as how modular structures can be built without these limitations, thus exhibiting evolvable modularity. The strategic goal of this project is to develop a contribution to how evolvable modularity as a theoretical framework can support business processes and enterprise architectures and its supporting ICT systems. | | Duration | 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The use of IT value management practices in achieving financial firm performance for IT enabled investments. 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014
| Abstract | Strategic investments in information technology (IT) are pervasive in contemporary organisations. However, there is a huge gap of knowledge and practical support in the efficient and effective implementation and delivery of such investments. Moreover, the assumed value in many cases is not achieved or insufficiently realised. Consequently, this PhD focuses on IT value management, where the entire process from idea till the realisation of business value is examined. In a first phase, management practices will be identified by both literature and case study research, which is validated through a Delphi study. Then, an international survey will investigate the impact that such practices have on business value creation from strategic IT enabled business investment. Finally, in-depth case study research should facilitate more understanding and insight into the contextual factors affecting the success of such investments. | | Duration | 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- A comparison of the explanatory power of three theoretical perspectives in the organizational adoption of knowledge-intensive information technology innovations 01/01/2010 - 31/03/2011
| Abstract | In this research project, we investigate the organizational adoption of knowledge-intensive information technology innovations by Flemish organizations. These innovations are difficult to adopt due to the presence of knowledge barriers. To obtain a better understanding of the innovative behavior of organizations with respect to the adoption of this type of innovations, the adoption is studied from three theoretical perspectives. | | Duration | 01/01/2010 - 31/03/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Maintaining privacy in hostile and complicated ubiquitous computing environments. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008
| Abstract | In the PACE (privacy awareness for complicated environments) project we develop a system that provides feedback related to privacy-intrusive events (such as RFID scans). The system consists of sensing devices, a privacy ontology, a reasoning server and a feedback component. The increased need for feedback on, and logging of, privacy-related events is a direct consequence of the pervasive and hidden nature of many of today''s tracking technologies. This nature has put the consumer at a serious disadvantage with respect to control over personal information. | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
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Expertise
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Show the team expertise- Mannaert Herwig
- Technical aspects of information systems.
| Technique: | - Case study research methods and consultancy
- Controlled experiments | | Users: | - ICT-companies
- ICT-departments | | Keywords: | IT CONTROL STANDARDS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ANALYSIS |
- Van Grembergen Wim
- Managerial aspects of information systems.
| Technique: | - Case study research methods and consultancy
- Controlled experiments | | Users: | - ICT-companies
- ICT-departments | | Keywords: | IT AUDIT, IT BALANCED SCORECARD, IT GOVERNANCE, COBIT |
- Verelst Jan
- Systems development.
| Technique: | - Case study research methods and consultancy
- Controlled experiments | | Users: | - ICT-companies
- ICT-departments | | Keywords: | DESIGN DATABASES, CONCEPTUAL MODELING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ANALYSIS |
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