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Proceedings of the First European Doctoral Seminar on Strategic Information Management

Mikko Ruohonen, Juha Pärnistö (Eds.), Proceedings of the First European Doctoral Seminar on Strategic Information Management, TUCS General Publication, Turku Centre for Computer Science, 1996.

Abstract:

Editorial

<p>Organizations are heading towards transformations that are either activated or supported by the use of information technology. New and emerging fields of information management studies are many. Organizations transform in line with their information systems. In many cases organizational and individual learning is needed to ensure successful use of IT. Information systems are also crossing organizational boundaries and even national borders. Outcomes from these phenomena are inter-organizational systems, group systems and electronic commerce applications. Management of information resources is facing many challenges and problems, such as IS evaluation, quality and service. The objective of the first European Doctoral Seminar on Strategic Information Management (EDSIM) was to:

<ol>
<li>evaluate the recent research topics in the field of information management,
<li>give guidance to doctoral students in their thesis work, and
<li>discuss the European perspective in information management.
</ol>

<p>All three objectives were achieved successfully during the seminar in Turku, Christian Institute. EDSIM was an initiative by SISNET network which concentrates on providing teaching and research on the field of strategic information systems and information management. Our seminar was well-focused and achieved the niche audience of European scholars and doctoral students who are interested especially in managerial perspective of IS research. Our seminar gathered a representative audience from UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and even from non-european countries such as China and Nigeria.

<p>We want to pick up some of the key themes and findings from the flow of discussions. Associate Professor Jaak Jurison made a keynote on Global Issues of IS Management in which he provided several options to start global IS research. The most important is to focus and find the most appropriate approach while global IS research is laborous and costs more than traditional IS research. Use of IT, such as email and web, in this effort is also recommended. Professor Tapio Reponen pinpointed the meaning of learning in IS strategy formulation and research. Shared understanding amongst different stakeholders is needed to communicate the vision for information systems development. However, explication of knowledge is the key problem. We need approaches where tacit business visions can be transformed explicit IT applications. Codification might be a too challenging objective, but if we can create, as researchers, a creative planning and design environment through action research and other customer oriented methods, we are gaining more relevance for our research. Professor Bob Galliers provided many avenues for improving relevance of information management research. European IS research seem to be more focused on relevance than rigor issues which has direct implications to selection of research approaches and methods. One of the key things is also dissemination and academic marketing of your research. With constant dialectics with business managers you can validate your research and provide relevant results.

<p>Doctoral presenations were all from key research areas, such as IS evaluation, management of time-critical reporting, global IS on different contexts, SIS plan implementation factors, organizational transformation through IT and quality planning for SISP. All these topics with keynote viewpoints are published in this proceedings.

<p>EDSIM organization is grateful for the sponsors of the seminar; EU Socrates funding, Doctoral Program of Information Systems Science in Finland, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration; Institute of Information Systems Science (IIS) and Turku Center for Computer Science (TUCS). Special thanks belong to the soul of the seminar, professor Tapio Reponen who was one of the initiators of this project, professor Pieter Ribbers, chairman of SISNET, all the organizers and participants, especially to Birgit Haanmäki, Secretary to IIS, who has been the backbone of the seminar.

<p>We are looking forward to the next EDSIM meeting.

<p>September, 1996

<p><i>Mikko Ruohonen, Acting professor, program chair<br>
Juha Pärnistö, Acting assistant professor</i>

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BibTeX entry:

@PROCEEDINGS{pParnisto96a,
  title = {Proceedings of the First European Doctoral Seminar on Strategic Information Management},
  number = {2},
  series = {TUCS General Publication},
  editor = {Ruohonen, Mikko and Pärnistö, Juha},
  publisher = {Turku Centre for Computer Science},
  year = {1996},
  ISBN = {951-650-901-0},
}

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