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Personal Information

1975

M. S. in Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

1981

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

1998

Dr. Techn. in Software Engineering, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

Primary Positions

1971-1975

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

1975-1982

Lecturer and Researcher, Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

1982-1987

Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

1987-2002

Full Professor, Computer Science, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

2002-

GRA Eminent Scholar, Full Professor, Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, USA.

Other Positions

1973

Teaching Assistant, State University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

1990-1998

Visiting Professor, Institute Theseus, Sophia Antipolis, France.

1993-1997

Head of the Doctoral School, Faculty of Technology & Science, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

1997-2000

Research Director, Danish National Center for IT Research.

1997

Visiting Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

1998-2003

Visiting Professor, Viktoria Institute, Göteborg, Sweden.

2001-2007

Visiting Professor, IT-University, Göteborg, Sweden.

2001-2002

Visiting Professor, Warwick Business School, Warwick, UK.

2002-

Professor, Center for Process Innovation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

2007-

Visiting Professor, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark.

2008-

Academic Director, Executive Doctorate Program, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University.

Research Area

 Information Systems and Software Engineering

Professional Activity

Editorial Responsibilities

  • M. Lassen and L. Mathiassen (Eds.). Report on The Eighth Scandinavian Research Seminar on Systemeering, 1985.
  • L. Mathiassen (Ed.). Working Habits in Systems Development. SYDPOL Report No. 1, 1987. (In Scandinavian languages)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Co-founder, member of Editorial Collective 1989-1993, member of the editorial board.
  • Information, Technology & People. Member of the editorial board.
  • Information Systems Journal. Member of the editorial board.
  • Information & Organization. Member of the editorial board.
  • MIS Quarterly. Associate Editor 2001-2003.
  • MIS Quarterly Senior Editor 2003-2007.
  • L. Mathiassen and J. Pries-Heje (Eds.). Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion. Special Issue of European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006.

Program Committees

I have served as a program committee member at a number of international conferences including,

  • International Conference on Approaches to Prototyping, Namur, Belgium, 1983.
  • IRIS 85: Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Aarhus, Denmark, 1985.
  • International Conference on System Design for Human Development and Productivity, Berlin, Germany, 1985.
  • International Conference on Development and Use of Computer-based Tools-In the Context of Democratization of Work, Århus, 1985.
  • IRIS 89: Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Skagen, Denmark, 1989.
  • International Conference on Information System, Work and Organization Design, Berlin, Germany, 1989.
  • ICIS 90: International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990.
  • International Conference on The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies on Information Systems Development, Minneapolis, USA, 1992.
  • International Conference on Information Systems Development: Human, Social and Organizational Aspects, Noordwijkerhout, Netherland, 1993.
  • CAiSE 95: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Jyväskylä, Finland, 1995.
  • ECIS 95: European Conference on Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 1995.
  • International Conference on Computers in Context, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1995.
  • IFIP WG 8.6 Working Conference on Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology, Oslo, Norway, 1995.
  • International Conference on IT and Changes in Organizational Work, Cambridge, England, 1995.
  • International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 1995.
  • ECIS 96: European Conference on Information Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 1996.
  • IFIP WG 8.1/8.2 Working Conference on Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support, Atlanta, USA, 1996.
  • International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, London, England, 1996.
  • IFIP WG 8.6: Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, Ambleside, Lake Windermere, UK, 1997.
  • ICIS 97: International Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, USA, 1997.
  • IFIP WG 8.2: Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, 2000.
  • IFIP WG 8.2: Realigning Research and Practice in IS Development: The Social and Organisational Perspective, Boise, USA, 2001.
  • ICIS 01: International Conference on Information Systems, New Orleans, USA, 2001 (Senior Editor).
  • ECIS 01: European Conference on Information Systems, Bled, Slovenia, 2001 (Associate Chair).
  • ECIS 02: European Conference on Information Systems, Gdansk, Poland, 2002.
  • ECIS 03: European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy, 2003.
  • Agile Development Conference, Salt Lake City, USA, 2003.
  • IFIP WG 8.6: IT Innovation for Adaptiveness and Competitive Advantage, Leixlip, Ireland, 2004.
  • IFIP WG 8.2: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20 year Perspective on IS Research, Manchester, UK, 2004.
  • IFIP WG 8.6: Business Agility and IT Diffusion, Atlanta, US, 2005 (Program co-Chair).
  • IFIP WG 8.6: Transfer and Diffusion of IT for Organizational Resilience, Galway, Ireland, 2006.
  • International Conference on Business Process Management, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
  • International Conference on Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education, Galway, Ireland, 2007.
  • International Workshop on BPM Governance, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
  • IFIP WG 8.6: Organizational Dynamics of Technology-based Innovation - Diversifying the Research Agenda, Manchester, UK, 2007.
  • IFIP WG 8.6: Open IT-based Innovation - Moving Towards Cooperative IT-transfer and Knowledge Diffusion, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
  • Agile Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2008.
  • International Conference on Information Systems Development: Towards a Service-provision Society, Phaphos, Cypros, 2008.
  • Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, 2008.

 Research Policy

I have participated in a number of policy making activities within the Danish Ministry for Research

1996

Member of Committee on National Danish IT Research Strategy.

1997-2000

Research Director, Danish National Center for IT Research.

1999-2002

Member of Managerial Board for National, Interdisciplinary IT Research Program.

2000-2001

Member of Committee on National Danish Research Policy and Strategy.
2005- Chairman National Danish Committee for Strategic Research in Growth Technology.

 Research Grants

I have participated in the design, establishment, and management of the following research programs

  • The DUE project (Democracy, Development, and Electronic Data Processing), University of Aarhus, 1977-1980, 4 mio. dkr.
  • The MARS project (Methodologies and Practices in Systems Development), University of Aarhus, 1982-1985, 3 mio. dkr.
  • The SYDPOL program (Systems Development Environments and Profession Oriented Languages), University of Aalborg, 1985-1990, 3 mio. dkr.
  • The SE program, (Productivity and Quality in Software Engineering), University of Aalborg, 1990-1994, 2 mio. dkr.
  • The Software Factory Program, University of Aalborg, 1995-1997, 1.5 mio. dkr.
  • The Software Process Improvement Project, University of Aalborg, 1997-1999, 20 mio. dkr.
  • Managing Knowledge in Software Organizations, University of Aalborg, 2001-2002, 100.000 dkr.
  • Wireless, Multimedia-Based Information Services to Improve Healthcare Performance, Georgia Research Alliance, 2003-2006, $225,000.
  • Researching Gartner's Research Process, Gartner, 2003-2004, $112,800.
  • Improving Requirements Management, Byers Engineering, 2004-2007, $94,000.
  • Sales Process Innovation Enabled by Mobile Technology, Cbeyond Communications, 2005-2005, $60,000.
  • IT-based Innovations, Intel, 2005-2007, $50,000.
  • Health-e-Station, NEGA, 2005, $54,000.
  • Business Process Innovation, Danish Ministry of Research, 2005-2008, $87,500.
  • IT-based Service Innovation, Copenhagen University, 2006-2008, $30,000.
  • IT-enabled Process Innovation in a Network of Minority Businesses, Open Systems, 2006-2008, $20,000.
  • Community Driven Telehealth Innovation, East Georgia Health Cooperative, 2007-2009, $94,000.

 Teaching and Supervision

I have taught a great variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Systems & Software Engineering. I have been supervisor for more than 100 computer science, software engineering, and informatics master thesis students. I have supervised the following PhD students

  • Andreas Munk-Madsen, Aarhus University, 1985.
  • Ivan Aaen, Aalborg University, 1990.
  • Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, 1991.
  • Carsten Sørensen, Aalborg University, 1993.
  • Lars Bækgaard, Aalborg University, 1993.
  • Helana Scheepers, Aalborg University, 2000.
  • Birgitte Krogh, Aalborg University, 2000.
  • Jakob Iversen, Aalborg University, 2000.
  • Pouya Pourkomeylian, Viktoria Institute, Göteborg, 2001.
  • Claus Rosenstand, Aalborg University, 2002.
  • Ingegerd Andersson, IT-University, Göteborg, 2003.
  • Kerstin Nilsson, IT-University, Göteborg, 2003.
  • Helle Damborg Fredriksen, Aalborg University, 2004.
  • Keld Pedersen, Aalborg University, 2005.
  • Anna Börjesson, IT University, Göteborg, 2006.
  • Agneta Nilsson, IT University, Göteborg, 2006.
  • Sunyoung Cho, Georgia State University, 2007.
  • Nannette Napier, Georgia State University, 2007.
  • Mark Lewis, Georgia State University, 2008 (with Arun Rai)
  • Rajendra Singh, Georgia State University, started 2005.
  • Brett Young, Georgia State University, started 2005.
  • Sune Dueholm Muller, Aarhus Business School, started 2005 (with Pernille Kræmmergaard).
  • John Persson, Aalborg University, started 2006 (with Ivan Aaen).
  • Darryl Romanov, Georgia State University, started 2008.

   I have served as a faculty member in the following doctoral consortia

  • ECIS, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1998.
  • ICIS, Helsinki, Finland, 1999.
  • ECIS, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999 (Chairman and Organizer).
  • ICIS, Las Vegas, USA, 2005.

Consultancy

  • I have advised a number of organizations on process innovation, software engineering & management, quality assurance, project management, and IT strategy. The companies include Gartner, Intel, Ericsson, Volvo, AstraZeneca, Danske Bank, Cbeyond Communications, Byers Engineering, and Systematic Software Engineering. I give courses and seminars to managers and IT professionals on a regular basis.

  • Together with Andreas Munk-Madsen I founded and managed Metodica, a Danish consultancy company offering services to IT departments and software houses. Metodica was established in 1986 and I was active within the company until 2002.

  • I have served as expert consultant for a number of European Research & Development Programs including Functional Analysis of Office Requirements and Euromethod.

Awards and Recognition

  • In 1991, I was awarded Teacher of the Year among 500 colleagues at the Science & Technology Faculty at University of Aalborg (Prize: 25.000 dkr.).

  • In 1994, Aalborg University had, for the first time, the opportunity to promote a small number of its approximately 60 full professors. Together with six colleagues I was awarded an annual bonus (45.000 dkr) for my contributions to research, research education, and education in general.

  • In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to International Conference on Systems Development, Kristianssand, Norway.

  • In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to Twenty-third Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Udevalla, Sweden.

  • In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to Conference on Business Information Technology Management, Manchester, UK.

  • In 2001, I was invited as keynote speaker to Conference on Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations, Banff, Canada.

  • In 2001, I was invited as keynote speaker to Recent Object Oriented Symposium, Bergen, Norway.

  • In 2006, the paper "Negotiating Repeat-Ability and Response-Ability in Requirements Engineering" was awarded best paper in track at International Conference on Information Systems.

  • In 2008, the paper "From Dichotomy to Ambidexterity: Transcending Traditions in Systems Development" was awarded best paper in track at Americas Conference on Information Systems.
  • In 2008, I was invited as keynote speaker to the annual Nordic PhD Seminar at Magleaas, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

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