Poltak S. Lumbanbulus

MIS Undergraduate Enrollment

2005-10-12T10:29:00.000+07:00

http://www.cba.siu.edu/faculty/mykytyn/mis_undergraduate_enrollment.htm

For the most part, the results tend to continue what we have all been
experiencing the past few years.

Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research Methods

2005-05-23T21:26:00.000+07:00

http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecrm2005/2-proceedings-ecrm2005.htm

The 4th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management was held at the Universite Paris-Dauphine last month. The conference this year was well received by participants, many of whom commented on how the quality of work and presentations continues to develop each year. The Proceedings are now available and details of how to obtain copies can be found at the URL above.

Knowledge Management Surveys

2005-05-21T13:04:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/10.html
(Compiled by Ilia Bider, April 2005)

We are looking for a tool to analyze the "state of affairs" in Knowledge Management field at various companies and organizations. We would appreciate very much any tip on where to find sample questionnaires that can help to handle the matter. A questionnaire we are looking for should not be directed to KM officers (as they do not exist in each organization), but rather to an average member of staff/manager who does not know what KM is. Best of all the questions should not explicitly refer to Knowledge Management as such.

MIT students pull prank on conference

2005-04-20T17:21:00.000+07:00

Jeremy Stribling said Thursday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with "context-free grammar," charts and diagrams.

See also http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf

Learning Objects and Learning Designs

2005-04-20T17:09:00.000+07:00

http://sigrlo.org/LOLD1_1_April_05.pdf

The first issue of the official publication of AIS-SIGRLO.

Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts

2005-04-06T10:57:00.000+07:00

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4041.txt

It has often been the case that morality has not been given proper consideration in the design and specification of protocols produced within the Routing Area. This has led to a decline in the moral values within the Internet and attempts to retrofit a suitable moral code to implemented and deployed protocols has been shown to be sub-optimal.

This document specifies a requirement for all new Routing Area Internet-Drafts to include a "Morality Considerations" section, and gives guidance on what that section should contain.

Prof. Robert Zmud's interview

2005-04-05T10:25:00.000+07:00

http://www.sigsemis.org/columns/interviews/zmoud_interview

Robert Zmud is interviewed for the Sigsemis Bulletin.

Robert W. Zmud is the Michael F. Price Chair in MIS and Director of the
MIS Division in the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University
of Oklahoma. He has been elected a fellow of both the Association of
Information Systems and the Decision Science Institute.

While his research portfolio might seem at first glance to be rather
eclectic, the vast majority of Bob’s refereed articles have addressed
phenomena associated with the following question, “What must an enterprise
do right in order to introduce appropriate information technology so as to
fully leverage the functionality of this technology in creating business
value?” His research examining this question has been published in over
75 refereed articles in such journals as (among others) MIS Quarterly,
Information Systems Research, Management Science, Organization Science,
Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal.

Bob has been active in promoting and developing information systems
scholarship through the leadership roles he has served with scholarly
journals in the information systems field. He served as the
Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly from 1995 to 1998, as a founding Senior
Editor of Organization Science, and is currently a Senior Editor with
Information Systems Research, the Journal of the AIS, and MISQ Executive.
In addition, he currently serves or has previously served on the editorial
boards of the following journals (alphabetical order): Academy of
Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences,
Information & Organization, Journal of Engineering and Technology
Management, Management Science, MISQ Executive, and Systems, Objectives,
Solutions.

Bob has also played leadership roles in professional societies and
conferences associated with the information system discipline. He has
served in officer roles with the OCIS Division of the Academy of
Management, the TIMS College on Information Systems, and the Society of
Information Management, International. In addition, through his work with
SIM, International as Research Director of the Advanced Practices Council
and as Chair of the SIM Paper Competition, Bob has played an instrumental
role in furthering practice-based research in information systems.
Finally, Bob has also served in leadership roles in numerous information
systems conferences, including serving as General Chair for ICIS 1993 and
Program Chair for ICIS 1986.

In addition to serving on the faculties of Clarkson University, Auburn
University, Georgia State University, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Florida State University, and University of Oklahoma, Bob has
served as a Shaw Professor at Nanyang Technological University (1997), a
Visiting Scholar at City University of Hong Kong (2001), and a Shaw
Professor at the National University of Singapore (2002). He received his
Bachelors of Aerospace Engineering Degree from the University of Virginia
(1968), his MS degree in Management from MIT (1970), and his PhD in
Business Administration degree from the University of Arizona (1974).

You will find many interesting insights from a Great Mind, that his work
on Organizational Implications of Information Technology and Information
systems is legendary. I liked a lot his perceptions on the business value
of IT, the need to diffuse IS research impact in other contexts, and his
strategy on PhD studies and IS curriculums, etc. I am looking forward for
your comments (Miltiadis D. Lytras).

Index of Information Systems Journals

2005-03-31T08:46:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/9.html

The Index is now an electronic book with an ISBN, published by Deakin University. At present the Index contains information on 455 journals, of which 415 are still active.

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/

Major Issues Facing Information Systems Researchers

2005-03-29T12:35:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/8.html

Over 1200 issues from Round-1 have been synthesized into a summary set of ISSUES FACING INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCHERS. We thank Round-1 respondents, and now invite you ALL to participate in *** ROUND-2 *** by expressing your views on the summary issues listed at...
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/ais-issues
(this will require less than 15 minutes of your time). We seek with Round-2 to reach as many I.S. researchers as possible, regardless of affiliation (you need not be a member of AIS).

Sing Sing Sibatu Manikkam

2005-03-26T20:50:00.000+07:00

Sing Sing Sibatu Manikkam
Nipar Joged
Sormani Gottam
Dina Mangingani
Sibang-bangkara Jula-Jula
Silo Bambang Yusuf Kala
Silo Bambang Yodhoyono

Habang Birit-birit
Habang Birit-birit
Sattabani Diloloa anon
Dipatakkas Dipatilik-tilik
Bohi Nahuraponi

Ndang Tutusihupi
Ndang Tutusihupi

Somarsuga Ndang Tutunauli
Sagandang Tutunauli Anggosodengganmaroa

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC BUSINESS

2005-03-15T19:39:00.000+07:00

http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=38

The Full text of the following articles is freely available:

A validation of the customer information satisfaction instrument for digital market context.
E-measurement: an integrated methodology for measuring the performance of e-services.
Electronic marketplaces: an empirical study in the UK healthcare sector.
E-health: applying business process reengineering principles to healthcare in Canada.
Is cybermediation really the future or risk?
Transaction automation on the internet: open electronic markets, private electronic markets and supply network solutions

MIS Faculty Offer Survey

2005-03-15T16:57:00.000+07:00

http://www.pitt.edu/~galletta/salsurv.html

The main focus is on U.S. Assistant Professors, given the numbers, the currency complications, and the situation with many schools outside the U.S. where many professors must supplement their earnings with consulting.

Need Applied Case(s) for Intro to IS course

2005-03-05T14:23:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/6.html

Compiled by Andrea Carugati, IÉSEG School of Management, March 2005.

I usually give to my students in Introduction to IS (it is the first undergrad course in IS for them) a simple case to solve. I want them to have an idea of the difference between data and applications and to understand TPS, MIS and DSS in practice. So, for example, in the past I gave them to do an hotel reservation system in Excel. I gave them a basic system to improve. They had to create a searchable DB of clients, register bookings, deplete stock, create invoices (TPS), they had to make overview graphs (MIS), and have the system suggest a discount rate (DSS).

Crisis of Identity

2005-03-04T14:05:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/5.html
(Ilia Bider)

I recently came across a number of papers on "crisis of identity". My general impression was that while trying to solve the issue, too many efforts had been spent to connect the solution to the historical roots and to the name "Information Systems". Has anybody tried to solve the problem of IS-field definition based on synchronous "state of affairs" only (e.g., based on the current bulk of papers produced in the field in the last 10 years)?

Personally, I have a feeling (without much research on the topic) that a solution can be simple. If we agree that a field can be defined by its subject and by its method, one suggestion could be as follows. Subject - real life organizations including private companies, public sector, non-profit organizations, etc. (with or without any IT systems). Method - system approach (quite vague but still). This can lead us to "IS research" investigates "the behaviour of real life organizations as systems". If we accept this hypothesis, is there anything that does not belong to IS but satisfies the definition, or does belong to IS but does not satisfy the definition?

Social Science Readings for MIS Courses

2005-03-02T10:00:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/4.html

I would like to know if there should be a separate senior/master
class that discusses Social Science issues like "Philosophy,
Paradigms, Epistemology, and Ontology". Or, should those issues
be inserted in a "Research Methodology" class?

Is it safe to argue that "Burrell and Morgan's Sociological
Paradigms and Organizational Analysis" (Heineman 1979 Ch. 1-3)"
is more than enough for what an MIS fellow needs to know?

Last, I am interest to collect a list of articles in Research
Methodology and Philosophy. Please send me 5-20 titles of what
are believed to be "must read" and "classical".

Implementation Of Business Rules

2005-03-01T10:36:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/3.html
(ISWorldNet Summary of Ilia Bider)

We are currently investigating ways of implementing business
rules in a computer system. We would appreciate very much any
information on the publications that deal with the issue. At this
stage, we are looking mostly for the works that describe actual
implementation of business rules methodology in experimental or
industrial systems. Most interesting for us are the works that
describe a language for expressing business rules along with an
algorithm/program that can interpret/use the rules in an
operational business environment.

TEXT BOOK for MIS: A Combined Computer Architecture/Operating System

2005-02-16T18:32:00.000+07:00

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/2.html

There are many excellent heavy weight Computer Science text books
about Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. I am wondering
if there exists a combined a text book about: "All You Need To
Know About Operating Systems/Computer Architecture for MIS
students" for a one semester class (50% Architecture/ 50%
Operating Systems").

Pemberantasan Korupsi

2005-02-11T15:34:00.000+07:00

Oleh Kwik Kian Gie
(http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/PemberantasanKorupsi.html)


ISI BUKU
KATA PENGANTAR                                    ii
SEBERAPA PENTING KKN DIBERANTAS?                   1
KONSEP PEMBERANTASAN KKN                           1
Carrot and Stick atau Kecukupan dan Hukuman        1
Reformasi Birokrasi                                2
Optimasi setiap Kementrian dan LPND                2
Sistem Penggajian (Salary System)                  4
Alternatif lain                                    4
Kritik                                             5
Hukuman                                            6
Dari mana pemberantasan KKN dimulai?               7
Kendala pemberantasan KKN yang harus kita 
   kenali dengan baik                              7
Pembiayaan pemberantasan KKN                       9
DAYA RUSAK KKN                                    10
Kehilangan Kemandirian                            13
Ketidak warasan yang tercermin dari angka-angka   14
Elit bangsa sudah menjadi embisil                 21
KESIMPULAN                                        24
GERAKAN NASIONAL KEMERDEKAAN KEDUA                28
TABEL BANK REKAP                                  29

How to write a(n interesting MIS) presentation?

2005-02-02T10:42:00.000+07:00

http://www.geocities.com/lumbanbulus/isworld-presentation.html

There are several courses that requires the student to prepare a
10-15 minutes presentation. For example, to present an article from
an MIS Journal.

Unfortunately, the audience (also students) often neither pay
attention nor having a difficult time to understand the
presentation.

Therefore, I would like to get opinions about how to write an
interesting MIS presentation. Any clue is welcomed: Web URLs, tips,
tricks, etc. I will also accept Power-Point files of presentation
examples.

I am going to write a summary of the responses to this list.
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