There are millions of users of Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in and other social media. Because of that access to large number of users, marketing has made extensive use of social media to get closer to the customer. Unfortunately, the supply chain has made only limited use of social media. However,...

This paper surveys and extends the use of social media technologies as part of project development and management. In particular, this paper investigates how social media technologies, such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogs and tagging, have been and can be used to facilitate project development and...

This paper investigates the use of data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities to integrate with customers in the supply chain and improve insights into customer sales. By making that same data warehouse sales information available to customers, this paper explores how the data...

This paper investigates the use of crowdsourcing for innovation in the Big 4 consulting firms. Information about each of the five firms’ is captured in a case study developed for comparison purposes. Those cases are used to examine emerging intra-enterprise characteristics, to analyze some of...

This paper analyzes how information about managers and technology, can be used to provide those managers with a system that is congruent with their needs. In particular, using McGregor’s Theory X and Y philosophies, managerial needs are elicited and then contemporary knowledge management...

This paper uses Gartner Group’s Hype Cycle as a basis to analyze research issues and opportunities in information systems. The findings include, “where” we find a technology is in the hype cycle can influence the kinds of research questions we can ask, the information available about that...

This paper provides some basic definitions associated with digital transformation in organizations and applies those definitions to accounting, electronic commerce and supply chains. We also drilldown on the dimensions associated with digital transformation, including digital everywhere,...

This paper investigates the current number of ISI citations, and change in the number of those citations over the last two years, for four leading accounting information systems (AIS) journals. The results are surprising. A priori, I would have expected that the "Journal of Information Systems"...

How does technology maturity and adoption affect samples, research issues and use of methodologies in information systems? What is a source of some research issues in strategic and emerging technologies? This paper addresses these questions and others using some frameworks generated by a...

This paper provides an alternative, theory-based approach for generating an enterprise ontology, using activity theory. Activity theory, based on psychology, provides a template-based approach to capturing the context of individual activity in an organization. In particular, activity theory uses...