Department of Information Systems

Hallgeir Nilsen

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Agenda

• Norway• The University of Agder

• Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

• The Department of Information Systems• Study programs• Staff• Research groups and areas

• Brouchure for Department

• This presentation: http://home.uia.no/hallgeir/guc/

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Norway

• E: 80 mill, 1 mill square km• N:5 million people, 385.000 square km• 2000 km long• Capital Oslo• King and Queen• SocialDemocracy• Before oil, after• Golf-stream• Nature

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University of Agder

• Granted rigth as university in 2007• Campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, both modern

• Five faculties• Health and Sport Sciences

• Economics and Social Sciences

• Engineering and Science

• Humanities and Education

• Fine Arts

• 9 PhD programs

• Appr. 9.600 students

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Campus in Kristiansand

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School of Economics and Social Sciences

• Five (6) departments• Economics and Business Administration (stronghold in Int. Management)• Working Life and Innovation• Political Science (stronghold in EU-research)• Sociology and Social Work• Information Systems• Development Studies

• Appr. 2.500 students, 3 PhD programs

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Economics and Business Administration / Kristiansand School of Management

• Economics and Finance

• Business Administration • Governance• Managerial economics• Strategy, organisation and management

• Behavioural economics- emphasis on household finance

• Public finance

• Real estate economics

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Economics and Business Administration -programs

• Undergraduate / bachelor

• Graduate / Master programs in Business• International Management• Managerial Economics• Economics / Finance

• PhD in International Management

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Department of Information Systems

• Study programs• Undergraduate, 3 year bachelor program in IT and Information Systems

• 180 ECTS, of this 140 ECTS consists of IS/ICT courses• 2 semesters are offered in English• 50-70 students

• Graduate program in Information Systems• 30 students• 120 ECTS, 2 years incl. thesis• Fall semester is offered in English (+ part of Spring)

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PhD in Information Systems

• Program chair: Bjorn.E.Munkvold@uia.no• Coursework of 45 ECTS, of which 30 ECTS is compulsory

• Core courses• Method courses• Electives

• Example of specialisation areas:• e-Government (including e-Democracy and e-Participation)• Enterprise systems• Global information systems• ICT and development• Knowledge management• Business process modelling• IS evaluation and benefits management

• Started in February 2009, currently 10 students:

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Academic staff

• Faculty of 15 and 2 Prof II`s

• Full professors: Maung Sein, Bjørn Erik Munkvold

• Prof II`s: Peter Axel Nielsen and Detmar Straub

• Majority (11) holds a PhD

• Majority publishes regularly

• The department is «organised» in 3 research groups

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Research groups

• Center for e-Government• Benefit realization in e-Government, ICT4D, e-Participation, Procurement in

Public Sector

• Hosting eGov 2012

• 5 staff members + 4 PhD students

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Research groups

• Center for enterprise systems

• Focus areas: ERP in SME`s, Knowledge Management, e-collaboration and virtual work

• Personell: 4 staff member + 4 PhD students

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Research groups

• Systems Development• Focuses on how information systems and software solutions are developed in and for

organizations:• ISD and software development processes, • ISD paradigms, approaches and methods, • Enacting competence in deploying methods in practice, • Issues of organizational and enterprise system implementation, • Open source systems development,

• Personell: 6 staff members, 1 Prof II and 2 PhD students

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Research fields

• Benefit-realization• e-Health• Enterprise systems• System-development methodologies and practice• Motivation and learning

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Research outlets

• Journals (last couple of years)• Information and Management, CAIS, MISQ, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian

Journal of IS, International Journal of e-Business Research, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of IT etc.

• Conferences• ECIS, HICSS, eGov, ISD

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International cooperation, partners

• Aalborg University

• University of Nebraska, Omaha

• WWU Münster

• Mzumbe Univeristy, Tanzania

• University of Gadja Mada, Indonesia

• Others• CBS, Tampere, Turku, QUT, Manchester, Delft etc.

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More about Norway

• Main Income

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Trip with exchange students

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Thank you, and welcome to University of Agder