Information Technology and the Future Enterprise : New Models for Managers

(Pearson Education) A textbook compiled of analysis and consideration of the role Information Technology will play in the future of business and in the lives of managers. A collection from a group of authors discussing topics relevant to the future of IT, aimed at students of Information Technology. DLC: Information technology--Management.

GARY DICKSON is a professor in the College of Management at North Carolina State University. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1965 where he worked with two colleagues on creating the world's first academic program dealing with the organizational application of information technology. Gary has served as advisor to 24 Ph.D. graduates and has authored three books and more than 100 articles and proceedings papers. He was the Founding Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly and served as the first general chairman of the International Conference on Information Systems. He has been very active in consulting with numerous large and small organizations, and he has served as a visiting professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Washington.

GERARDINE DESANCTIS is professor of management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She teaches in Duke's executive M.B.A. programs and is most active in the school's global education initiatives. Her interests are in information technology and organization design and she currently has several ongoing research projects related to the broad theme of virtual organizations. She currently is on the advisory board for Information Systems Research.