Name It! Store It! Protect It!: A Systems Approach to Managing Data in Research Core Facilities

A Systems Approach to Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Design for Utility Management Automation Systems

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Identity: How to name it, How to find it

The main objective of this work is to exploit the relationship between the information findability problem and a subject-based organization of information. Identification of a subject is involved when one wants to say something about that subject or when he or she tries to comprehend what was said by others about it. An example of this type of duality can be seen in the information world where ...

Research Commentary: Desperately Seeking the "IT" in IT Research - A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact

The field of information systems is premised on the centrality of information technology in everyday socio-economic life. Yet, drawing on a review of the full set of articles published in Information Systems Research (ISR) over the past ten years, we argue that the field has not deeply engaged its core subject matter—the information technology (IT) artifact. Instead, we find that IS researchers...

Research impact: defining it, measuring it, maximising it, questioning it

Both in the UK and more widely, the higher education sector is under pressure from the government to demonstrate that it makes a difference. That aside, few of us want to be the kind of academic that sits in an ivory tower thinking clever thoughts while Rome burns below. As Karl Marx said, many academics only interpret the world, but the true purpose of scholarship is to change it. The ‘impact ...

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts