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CeDER Faculty Publish Blueprint for Education and Research about Information Technologies in Business
Professors Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan published their article Information Technologies in Business: A Blueprint for Education and Research in the June 2007 issue of Information Systems Research, the premier academic journal for IS research. Recognizing that IT is increasingly central in today's business world but that business schools continue to be challenged by how to educate tomorrow's leaders for the emerging digital economy, they lay out a roadmap for education and research about information technologies in business. The findings and analysis in the research paper are the culmination of interviews with 45 business school deans and numerous panel discussions at international conferences over the last three years.
Dhar and Sundararajan's business-centric framework outlines three central reasons why IT matters in business:
- Information technologies continually transform industry and society
- Executive decisions about IT investments, governance and strategy are critical to the success of modern organizations
- Deriving value from increasingly available data trails defines effective decision making in the digital economy
A complementary technology-centric framework provides the first articulation of a set of concepts and stable principles about information technologies that have emerged over the last few decades. These frameworks lead to a set of eight central questions that define the most important knowledge executives need to make forward-looking decisions about information technologies. The paper analyzes what is known about the answers to these questions, shows how the technology-centric framework can be applied to making intelligent predictions about future transformation and investment trends, and proposes a program of research that aims to extend this body of knowledge.
To download an electronic copy of the blueprint, click here. If you would like a copy mailed to you, please contact Julia Mills.
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