Tom Ferratt

Tom Ferratt has had a rewarding career, primarily as a university professor. He has been an author, teacher, researcher, and consultant. Most of his work has focused on management information systems (MIS). The Advanced Practices Council (APC) of the Society for Information Management (SIM), a professional network for information technology (IT) leadership, sponsored his early work with Ritu Agarwal on developing and retaining a world-class IT staff. That work led to their book, Coping with Labor Scarcity in Information Technology: Strategies and Practices for Effective Recruitment and Retention. Other work with Chief Information Officers (CIOs) includes developing a Community Health Information Network with hospitals in the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association to share patient information across emergency rooms.

Tom’s research has been published and featured in leading publications, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Academy of Management Journal, Communications of the ACM, and Computerworld. He has been on the editorial boards of internationally recognized IT journals. He has served in leadership roles with the Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SIGCPR), and subsequent to its merger, the Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems (SIGMIS) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton, where he served as the Sherman-Standard Register Endowed Chair in MIS and as an Associate Dean in the School of Business Administration. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Notre Dame. His MBA and Ph.D. in business administration are from The Ohio State University. He was a member of the faculty and a department chair at Drake University and a visiting professor at Indiana University. He and Jerry Power met while Tom was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California in 2015. Their work together eventually led to collaborating on The Real-Time Revolution: Transforming Your Organization to Value Customer Time.

Among his other interests is playing the clarinet. His parents began supporting his clarinet lessons when he was going into the fifth grade. If you follow the Centerville Community Band on its Facebook page and can attend one of its concerts, he would be delighted to have you introduce yourself.