Mary Lacity
Mary
Cecelia Lacity
Professor of Information Systems
Office:
233 Computer Center ~ Voice: 314-516-6127
E-Mail: mary.lacity@umsl.edu
Homepage: http://www.umsl.edu/~lacitym
Degrees Held:
Ph.D.,
University of Houston, Business Administration, 1992
Major:
Management Information Systems
Minor:
Quantitative Management Science
B.S.B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1985
Major:
Quantitative Business Analysis
Minor:
Economics
Interests:
Teaching:
- Courses:
- IS 5800 - Management Information Systems
- IS 6846 - Management of Global Sourcing & Special Topics (Professional MBA)
- IS 5800 - Management Information Systems (Professional MBA)
- IS 6846 - Management of Global Sourcing
- IS 7021 - The Philosophy of Science & Qualitative Research Methods
- IS 424B - Theoretical Foundations of IS Research
- IS 7892 - Special Topics in Information Systems: Economic, Strategic, and Social Theories Used in I.S. Sourcing Research
Research:
- Areas: best practices in information systems management, sourcing, benchmarking, client/server management
- Selected
Significant Publications:
- Lacity, M. and Rottman, J., Offshore Outsourcing of IT Work, Palgrave , United Kingdom , 2008.
- Willcocks, L., and Lacity, M., Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services, Palgrave, United Kingdom, 2006.
- Rottman, J., and Lacity, M., "Proven Practices for Effectively Offshoring IT Work," Sloan Management Review, Vol. 47, 3, Spring, 2006, pp. 56-63.
- Zwieg, P., Kaiser, K. M., Beath, C., Bullen, C., Gallagher, K., Goles, T., Howland, J., Simon, J. Abbott, P., Abraham, T., Carmel , E., Evaristo, R., Hawk, S., Lacity, M., Gallivan, M., Kelly, S., Mooney, J., Ranganathan, C., Rottman, J., Ryan, T., Wion, R., “ The Information Technology Workforce Trends and Implications 2005-2008,” MIS Quarterly Executive Vol. 5, 2, 2006, pp 47-54.
- Jeyaraj, A., Rottman, J., and Lacity, M., “A Review of the Predictors, Linkages, and Biases in IT Innovation Adoption Research,” Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 21, 1, 2006, pp. 1-23.
- Feeny, D., Lacity, M., and Willcocks, L., "Taking the Measure of Outsourcing Providers," Sloan Management Review, Vol. 46, 3, Spring 2005, pp. 41-48.
- Lacity, M., Feeny, D., & Willcocks, L., "Commercializing the Back Office at Lloyd's of London: Outsourcing and Strategic Partnerships Revisited," forthcoming in the European Management Journal, Vol. 22, April 2004.
- Rottman, J., and Lacity, M., "Twenty Practices for Offshore Sourcing," MIS Quarterly Executive, Vol. 3, 3, 2004, pp. 117-130.
- Lacity, M., Feeny, D., & Willcocks, L., "Transforming a back-office function: Lessons from BAE Systems' Experience With an Enterprise Partnership," MIS Quarterly Executive, 2003.
- Lacity, M., & Willcocks, L., "Information Technology Sourcing Reflections," Wirtschaftsinformatik, Special Issue on Outsourcing, Vol. 45(2), 2003, 115-125.
- Willcocks, L., Hindle, J., Feeny, D., & Lacity, M., "Knowledge in outsourcing - the missed business opportunity," Knowledge Management, Vol. 7(2), Nov./Dec. 2003.
- Hindle, J., Willcocks, L., Feeny, D., & Lacity, M., "Value-Added Outsourcing at Lloyd's and BAE Systems," Knowledge Management, Vol. 6(4), Sept./Oct. 2003, 28-31.
- Kern, T., Lacity, M. & Willcocks, L., Netsourcing: Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network, Prentice Hall, New York, 2002.
- Lacity, M., "Global Information Technology Sourcing: More Than A Decade of Learning," IEEE Computer, Vol. 35(8), 2002, 26-33.
- Editorial Board at MIS Quarterly Executive and Journal of Strategic Outsourcing
- Research affiliate, Oxford University, England
- US Editor, Journal of Information Technology
- Previously worked as a systems analyst and consultant
- Expert witness to U.S. congress