[AISWorld] What top IS journals do

[mmora at securenym.net]

Colleague Vladimir,
Thanks for suggestion. I recognize and value totally the
engineering-behavioral research on GDSS (designing, building and
evaluating artifacts) from Prof. Nunamaker (who was trained with a Systems
Engineering PhD). However, my critique is in general and in particular the
JMIS still omits in its keyword list the core and millionary construct of
DATA CENTERS. Yet the old EDP concept is also omitted. This is my claim.
Research on DATA CENTERS and IT Services can glue at present all IS
research. Thanks,
Colleague Manuel

On Sat, March 5, 2016 8:23 am, Vladimir Zwass wrote:
> You may benefit from reading the articles in the recent (32,3) issue of
> JMIS included in the
>
>
> Special Issue: On the Contributions of Applied Science/Engineering
> Research to Information Systems
> Guest Editors: Briggs, Robert O, Nunamaker, Jay F, and Giboney, Justin S.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Vladimir Zwass
> Editor-in-Chief, JMIS
>
>
>
> From: Geoffrey Hubona
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 3:04 PM
> To: mmora at securenym.net
> Cc: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Why top IS journals ignore research in one of the
> most valuable assets: Data Centers?
>
> Manuel - Regretfully, this has always been the practical context of the
> IS/IT 'behavioral' and 'technical' research articles published in our top
> journals (MISQ, MISQ Executive, ISR, JMIS) to 'real world' IS and IT
> executives and other business-oriented and profit-oriented organizational
>  practitioners. The truth is that this research is rarely immediately
> valuable to finding useable, actionable, practical insights in dealing
> with the thorny issues of making information systems more effective and/or
> useful to increasing profit or strategic effectiveness.â
>
> CIOs and senior IT managers do not read these articles and have long
> complained that they have little relevance to their jobs. These articles
> are read almost exclusively by grad students and other university faculty
>  in these fields because it is a prime criterion by which they are
> assessed on the job.
>
> There is a "reality gap," always has been, between the direction and
> guidance afforded by this research and what is actually used in real
> businesses to cope with their problems. I know this to be true because I
> have spent a significant amount of my professional life in both camps.
>
> Real CIOs and senior IT managers in corporations and government
> organizations who have to wrestle with practical, day-to-day problems of
> how to extract value, utility, and effectiveness from either the human
> side, or the technical side of implementing and using information systems
>  do not read these research articles in our 'top' IS/IT journals because
> these research articles offer little or nothing of immediate value to
> them.
>
> Best, Geoffrey Hubona, Ph.D.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:40 PM, <mmora at securenym.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear AIS colleagues:
>>
>>
>> Well, it is well known that IS/IT area is a mix of managerial and
>> engineering disciplines. However, it is sad that most top IS journals
>> (MISQ, MISQ Executive, ISR, JMIS) ignore totally one of the main
>> constructs of our discipline:  data centers.  A search for research
>> papers on this construct and real entity (where all ICT operations run
>> daily in the largest worldwide organizations) in these top journals
>> reports a scarcity of them.
>>
>> Are we really researchers in IT (technology side)?  I believe AIS must
>> re-design it and make a real self-valuation on it. IT needs technical
>> and engineering oriented people and top journals and their followers
>> only value managerial soft issues.
>>
>> I have not renewed my subscription to AIS for it, but most important is
>> an inquiry: are we really preparing IT technical people correctly?
>>
>>
>> I am afraid that AIS is not helping too much. Our behavioral colleagues
>>  are welcome but AIS should be controlled by Engineering ICT people !
>>
>> Well, this is a discussion list, so my 5 cents contribution !
>> Manuel Mora
>>
>>
>> PS Interested in engineering topics on Data Centers please consider:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.issip.org/cfp-engineering-and-management-of-data-centers-an-
>> it-service-management-approach/
>>
>>
>>
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