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There are two important aspects to the way we use the term transformation. The first aspect is that we want to be the type of place that transforms the people who spend time here. The second aspect is to understand and demonstrate how information systems technology and management can transform the world around us.
SIS strongly encourages and supports the personal and professional transformation of our students, as well as of our faculty and staff. This belief in the importance of personal and professional transformation guides us in our dealings with students, as well as in our human resource policies for our employees.
We are running more than degree programmes for our students. We are attempting to transform the students' state of mind and their abilities. They will gain confidence in their own potential and be aware of the professional possibilities.
Similarly, for our faculty, we are not just paying them to design and teach courses, to do projects, to conduct and publish research and to also publish educational texts and cases. Rather, through our peer community and culture, we want them to go beyond the ordinary conventions of thinking about and doing research and education (e.g. counting publications, courses delivered, and committee assignments). The great challenge is to create a culture and environment where we drive ourselves to think of and do innovative and potentially transformative work as we produce our research, deliver our education and fulfill our professional service.
As Dean, the aspiration and challenge is to create a SIS community where all of our community members (students, faculty and staff) have a passion for using IT to transform and improve the world we live and work in. The belief that IT can and should be used for enhancing and transforming our personal and professional lives is the reason for the existence of our School of Information Systems. We do our best to select SIS educators and researchers who have a demonstrated passion to use IT to catalyse improvements and transformations in thinking and doing at any level in the vast expanse of the world of organisations and business. Information systems technology and information systems management can be used to directly or indirectly influence or create change within any level of the “world-of-business". This world-of-business spans many levels, from the environment of an individual, to that of a work group, an organisation and an entire private or public sector enterprise. It can also span to an entire industry, across a cluster of industries which form a sector, or even across a whole domestic or regional economy. Hence, our community members have a very wide space of possibilities for experimenting with how the creation, use and management of IT can transform and improve the world we live and work in.
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