The iPhone pricing debacle
Last night, our local ABC 7 news featured my startling insights into the recent iPhone pricing uproar. When Apple dropped the price of an iPhone from $599 to $399 after only two months, even Apple’s…
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The ‘rebirth’ of IFIP working group 9.1
Working Group 9.1 is the division within IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) responsible for research on computers and work. After a few years of inactivity, a team of new officers is working to…
The Ultimate Systems Reading List
So many books, so few weeks in a semester…. Check out the books we’ll be reading this fall in Systems class. A random selection is above. The entire list, with brief commentary, can be found…
The Dark Matter of the Business Universe
According to NASA, over 95% of the universe is made up mysterious substances known as dark matter and dark energy. We only really understand less than 5% of the cosmos. Modern biology suggests that 98%…
A workshop? On Facebook? I need student brains.
Question: Does writing half a paper, and having 40 online friends, make me an expert on social networking? Maybe! I’ll be running a social networking workshop for faculty and staff at USF on October 24th….
IT and Social Research at the AMCIS Conference
I’m pleased to present the paper lineup for the Social Theory in Information systems Research (STIR) track at the AMCIS (AMericas Conference on Information Systems) 2007 conference. For the past five years, my fellow track…
New presentation on the ‘IT Innovation Gap’
Research shows that IT investments pay off nicely in general, and that IT is a big contributor to labor productivity. So why are so many companies frustrated with their IT department, and complain about disappointing…
Could RateMyProfessors.com be right?
During FastTrack advising last week, some of the new students asked “can you recommend particular teachers?” Not knowing the different first-year writing, math, and econ profs, I told them to check out RateMyProfessors.com — the…
New presentation on lightweight knowledge sharing over the web
A big part of the web’s future impact on business will be through its ability to share knowledge almost effortlessly over large social networks. I call this ‘lightweight knowledge sharing’ (LKS – licks? lucks?), and…
Systems class final projects
It’s the end of another semester, and that means it’s final project time for our undergraduate Systems in Organizations class. Our Systems class is a cool combo of process design, operations, and technology. By the…