Information Technology is critical to the world of business, organisations, industries and markets. At the same time innovative business applications are constantly leading to spectacular technological advancements in IT.

This provides the backdrop for the SIS research mission, which is to address deep technology challenges and management issues in information systems that have
the potential to transform the way the world of business, organisations and industries operate.




EDUCATION & PRACTICE PROJECTS AND OUTPUTS

  INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE & LINKAGES



SIS is exceptionally well linked to the international community of high quality academic research:


  SIS RESEARCH & FACULTY MODEL


The disciplinary building blocks of our technology oriented research come from the parts of computer science and information systems technology that emphasise methods development in the context of applications and systems-oriented prototyping and experimentation.

Our Information Systems & Management related work draws on economic, social sciences and management methods. We use and often combine empirical, analytic and simulation work. We seek to take advantage of new IT enabled ways to collect and examine larger and more informative sets of data in less obtrusive and time consuming ways. In other words, we are interested in developing innovative ways of using IT solutions to collect, analyse or synthesise the data required to understand the managerial and policy issues related to Information Systems.

Similarly, we are interested in new IT enabled modelling and simulation approaches for exploring evolutionary and dynamic phenomena at firm and industry levels involving interactions across information management, IT systems and value creation.

We pursue interesting and important issues within each of our five main areas, and also provide as much encouragement and leeway as possible to our faculty to pursue interests at the intersection of these areas.

We frequently interact with experts and executives from across the The World of Business& Management in order to better understand their current challenges and future needs.

These aspects of the SIS research model are shown in the figure above.

Real-world industry sectors provide SIS with a testbed and laboratory for experimentation, as well as a fertile breeding ground for new ideas. We encourage and motivate our faculty and post-graduate students to apply their research results to solving real problems in the context of private and public sector settings. We also encourage our professionally oriented Bachelors and Masters students to create and implement innovative and relevant information technology applications, systems and supporting management methods.

  SIS FACULTY

We selectively seek out top notch research faculty who are deeply grounded in the fundamentals of their respective areas, and who want to collaborate with our SIS faculty in related areas. We also seek out faculty who are driven to explore how their research results can be applied to innovative systems and solutions that have the potential to transform the way The World of Business & Management operates. Our faculty are encouraged to pursue first rate and innovative academic research while at the same time being problem driven and doing applied work in new areas.

The SIS environment provides excellent career advantages that attract and retain top-notch researchers. We pay particular attention to developing the research potential of faculty members in the early stages of their career. For all of our faculty members, we provide generous support for participating in high quality conferences and workshops, and we actively foster collaboration with internationally renowned universities and research labs.

 



 
 

Last updated on 12 December, 2011 by School of Information Systems.