Each year, the IS Advisory Board brings a distinguished speaker to campus to interact with faculty and doctoral students as well as the IS Community. The speaker provides a research seminar in the morning, meets with faculty and students with similar research interests, and provides a seminar in the afternoon of interest to our corporate community.

Varun Grover is the William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University. He has published extensively in the information systems field, with over 200 publications in major refereed journals. Nine recent articles have ranked him among the top four researchers based on number of publications in the top Information Systems journals, as well as citation impact (h-index). Dr. Grover is Senior Editor (Emeritus) for MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the AIS and Database. He is currently working in the areas of IT value, system politics and process transformation and recently released his third book (with M. Lynne Markus) on process change. He is recipient of numerous awards from USC, Clemson, AIS, DSI, Anbar, PriceWaterhouse, etc. for his research and teaching and is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.

This talk focuses on the emerging CIO role of business technology strategist and its relationship with the three traditional IT management roles-informational, decisional, and interpersonal. Preliminary data on how the CIOs emerging role is related to reporting level and technical background will be described, as the talk explores what it takes for a CIO to fulfill this role.
 

The University of Missouri - St. Louis College of Business Administration was named one of the 300 outstanding institutions featured in the 2011 edition of Princeton's annual Best Business Schools guidebook. Princeton collected the opinions of more than 19,000 students at the best AACSB-accredited MBA programs in the world and gathered statistical information on many more MBA programs in order to give readers the widest possible base of information for selecting the right business school for them. The IS Department was one of five that received high national rankings recently from Academic Analytics, a company that ranks doctoral programs based on faculty scholarly productivity. The index measures the scholarly productivity of faculty based on their publications, citations, grants and honorary awards. The study included 168,068 faculty members associated with 8,849 PhD programs at 387 universities in the United States. UMSL's IS faculty ranked in the top ten in its subject area along with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and University of Arizona in Tucson.