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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'>PhD scholarship available at QUT’s Information Systems School<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Applications are invited from suitable qualified graduates for a PhD scholarship at the Information Systems School at Queensland University of Technology as part of the “<b>Woolworths Chair of Retail Innovation</b>” initiative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>The term of the scholarship is three years. The scholarship provides financial support towards study and living costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Project Background<o:p></o:p></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal>The PhD student will work in the Woolworths Chair for Retail Innovation initiative at the Information Systems School at Queensland University of Technology. The initiative’s objective is to conduct applied research on innovations in business, processes and technology-based systems, and the management of innovation processes in organisations. The domain of the initiative is the retail sector, especially Supermarket operations. Topics will address business, management, process, service and IT-components, and thus require holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches to research.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The project is driven by a demand to deliver innovative transformations to retail operations, processes and technology, with a focus being on customer-centric value provision. At the core of this demand are the two foci of (a) exploring and exploiting technology-enabled innovation potential in the retail sector, and (b) creating a culture of innovation within retail organisations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong>The Research Environment<o:p></o:p></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>QUT’s Information Systems School is currently the highest ranked IS research department in Australia based on research quality and the only IS research group that was ranked with a perfect '5-out-of-5' score in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. The school is also among the highest ranked IS departments in terms of publications in the top IS journals worldwide.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>QUT’s Information Systems School has a global reputation for its work on Business Process Management, Process Innovation and workflow technology. The School has an unconditional focus on rigorous research with demonstrated practical relevance. Research from the school has appeared in premier journals such as the <i>MIS Quarterly</i>, the <i>Journal of the AIS</i>, the <i>European Journal of IS</i>, <i>Decision Support Systems</i>, <i>Information Systems</i>, <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, and others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To find out more, please visit <a href="http://www.qut.edu.au/science-engineering/about/about-the-faculty/school-of-information-systems">http://www.qut.edu.au/science-engineering/about/about-the-faculty/school-of-information-systems</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Application Criteria<o:p></o:p></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN>The successful applicant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>          </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN>has a Master's degree in information systems, business administration, management, or a comparable field. He or she completed the Master’s degree with a GPA of 6 or higher (or equivalent).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>          </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>has the ambition and capabilities to complete a high-quality PhD project within 3 years.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 leve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