Why Do IS Projects Fail? (Hint: You probably already know the answer!)
[caption id="attachment_710" align="alignleft" width="300"] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Viruses.jpg cc2.0[/caption] An article in MIT's Sloan Management Review (http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/embracing-digital-technology/) describes why IT projects so often fail to achieve their intended...
How good are you at multitasking? Try this game …
[caption id="attachment_614" align="alignleft" width="294"] http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenvance/4538434224/ (cc 2.0)[/caption] I recently came across an article showing that laptops in the university classroom lowers performance, both for the...
Can technology leaders really have charisma?
[caption id="attachment_564" align="alignleft" width="240"] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons (cc 2.0)[/caption] Despite a decent performance by Ashton Kutcher, Joshua Stern's biopic on the late Steve Jobs has been panned...
Communities of practice and individual learning outcomes
[caption id="attachment_634" align="alignleft" width="294"] http://www.flickr.com/photos/interplast/55755997/ (cc 2.0)[/caption] Research Question: What essential behaviours do members of a community of practice engage in, and how can they...
Top Management Support of Enterprise Systems
[caption id="attachment_480" align="alignleft" width="240"] By lumaxart (cc 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons[/caption]Research Question: What supportive actions do top managers engage in during IS implementations? How do...
Understanding Sustained Participation in OSS Projects
[caption id="attachment_570" align="alignleft" width="300"] www.flickr.com/photos/eole/7642804482/ (cc 2.0)[/caption] Research Question: What mechanisms sustain long-term voluntary developer participation in OSS communities? Abstract: Prior research into open source...
Stanford Prison Experiments
[caption id="attachment_497" align="alignleft" width="300"] flickr.com/photos/sonofgroucho/ (cc 2.0)[/caption] I came across the Stanford Prison Experiments while working on a paper exploring cybercrime. In 1971, a professor...