Business-IT Partnering as Sociomaterial Sensemaking
When: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 from 11:30 P.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Who: All are invited to attend
What: Join us to hear Dr. Deborah Compeau, the Hubman Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Carson College of Business at Washington State University discuss the adaptation of Business-IT into an organization’s processes.
Abstract
Business-IT partnering has long been associated with successful IT enabled organizational transformation and its constituent elements: the development, project management and successful implementation of information systems. We develop and deploy a new lens on Business-IT partnering to examine how these groups navigate the changes in routines and technologies and the associated learning that must be mutually undertaken to achieve transformation.
We create a new theoretical lens – sociomaterial sensemaking – based on the study of a longitudinal (2.5 year) organizational transformation effort across 10 healthcare organizations participating in the development and deployment of 4 connected technologies. The sociomaterial sensemaking lens allows us to observe the ways that IT and business people de- construct and reconfigure the imbrications of routines and technologies that contribute to the transformation.
We draw conclusions and implications about how Business-IT partnering occurs, why and when it occurs in particular ways and how the tasks of altering imbrications and actualizing affordances are related. Our results suggest that Business-IT partnering during transformation should be understood and managed as collective activities that co-construct imbrications of new routines and technologies as instantiations of key elements of organizational transformation.
About Dr. Compeau
Deborah (Debbie) Compeau is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research and the Hubman Distinguished Professor of Information Systems. Prior to joining WSU, she held faculty positions in Canada at The University of Western Ontario (2000-2015), University of Calgary (1998-2000), and Carleton University (1991-1998). Her research focuses on the interaction between people and information technologies (IT) in organizations. Her specific interests include user training and learning and the adoption and implementation of IT.
Recent projects have focused on adoption of IT in healthcare settings. Her research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and the European Journal of Information Systems as well as other journals and has been recognized by Lowry et al. (2007) (“Assessing Leading Institutions, Faculty, and Articles in Premier Information Systems Research Journals”, Communications of the AIS, v. 20) as among those with the highest impact.
She served as Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (2000-2002) and as Associate and then Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly (1998-2005). She has taught information systems at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, with a particular focus on IT strategy. She is an active case writer and case teacher and has conducted workshops on teaching with cases in the U.S., Canada, France, and Germany.
Contact
Jim Cochran
Associate Dean for Research- rad@culverhouse.ua.edu
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