Smart BIS / LITEM Seminar

• 9:45-10:45 - Strategic modeling and IT governance using conceptual models

Research talk presented by guest speaker Prof. Yves Wautelet

Guest speaker's bio:Yves Wautelet is Professor in Information Systems at KU Leuven (campus Brussel) and invited professor at Université de Namur. He is also scientific collaborator at Université catholique de Louvain. He formerly has been an IT project manager and a postdoc fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He completed a PhD thesis focusing on project and risk management issues in large enterprise software design. Dr. Wautelet also holds a bachelor and master in management sciences as well as a master in Information Systems. His research interests include aspects of software engineering such as requirements engineering, software project management and development life cycles, agile development, CASE-tools as well as IT Governance and information systems strategy.

Abstract: Large organizations often describe IT needs in terms of services. IT governance mechanisms ensure investments lead to systems aligned with the long-term objectives. This business and IT alignment is often evaluated at the early stages when a service development decision needs to be taken. Evaluating such an alignment nevertheless requires knowledge and details on the tasks, activities, and requirements that the service is supposed to support. This is incompatible with agile development principles that prescribe to focus on an ad-hoc design built during a sprint. The latter indeed uses an operational approach where value delivered to stakeholders is the driver. In this talk, we advocate that investment decisions based on (coarse-grained) services is reconcilable with their agile development. It proposes Agile-MoDrIGo, a model-driven IT governance framework using services as scope elements and relying on agile to determine run-time behavior. To this end, the framework uses parallel top-down and bottom-up approaches based on conceptual models where integration is ensured by a middle layer.

Guest speaker's bio: Yves Wautelet is Professor in Information Systems at KU Leuven (campus Brussel) and invited professor at Université de Namur. He is also scientific collaborator at Université catholique de Louvain. He formerly has been an IT project manager and a postdoc fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He completed a PhD thesis focusing on project and risk management issues in large enterprise software design. Dr. Wautelet also holds a bachelor and master in management sciences as well as a master in Information Systems. His research interests include aspects of software engineering such as requirements engineering, software project management and development life cycles, agile development, CASE-tools as well as IT Governance and information systems strategy.

• 11:00-12:00 - Meet the Editors

Prof. Dr. Yogesh K. Dwivedi, the current Editor in Chief of one of the prestigious peer reviewed journal in information systems domain, International Journal of Information Management

Editor's bio : Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation, Founding Director of the Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) and Co-Director of Research at the School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK. Professor Dwivedi is also currently leading the International Journal of Information Management as its Editor-in-Chief. His research interests are at the interface of Information Systems (IS) and Marketing, focusing on issues related to consumer adoption and diffusion of emerging digital innovations, digital government, and digital and social media marketing particularly in the context of emerging markets. Professor Dwivedi has published more than 300 articles in a range of leading academic journals and conferences that are widely cited (more than 25 thousand times as per Google Scholar). Professor Dwivedi is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Government Information Quarterly and International Journal of Electronic Government Research, and Senior Editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.

More information about Professor Dwivedi can be found at: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/.

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