Leon A. Kappelman is a Professor of Information Systems and Director Emeritus of the Information Systems Research Center in the College of Business at the University of North Texas.  He is also a Fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, a member of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies faculty and the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Program, and Chair of the Society for Information Management's Enterprise Architecture Working Group.

Mission Statement

Dedicated to helping organizations and individuals better manage their knowledge, technology, human, & financial assets.

  What's New?  

• Recent articles & presentations by DrK: 

  • Download slides from DrK's 11-May-09 Enterprise Architecture 201 Webinar

  • Download slides from DrK's 16-Mar-09 Enterprise Architecture 101 Webinar

  • Download slides from DrK's 5-Mar-09 Early Warning Signs of IT Project Failure Webinar

   

  • Dr K's NEW BOOK DUE OUT IN FALL 2009 -- SIM News Announcement

    The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture: Creating the Information Age Enterprise

   

  • Early warning signs of IT project failure (Information Systems Management, Fall 2006) 

  • "Enterprise Architecture and the Next Generation Enterprise," ISRC Seminar, 18-April-07.

  • "Bridging the Chasm," Architecture & Governance Magazine, 3(2), 2007.

  • "Enterprise Architecture: Not Just Another Management Fad," Align Journal, April-May 2007.

• SIM forms new Enterprise Architecture Working Group (Oct. 2006). 

• To see all of Kappelman's Congressional Testimony, click here.  

  •  Kappelman asked to testify at Congressional Hearing (22June06) about VA's cyber security breach.  

  •  Kappelman provides written testimony to Congress (25May06) about VA's cyber security breach..  

• To see MIS links page, click here. 

• To see Teaching page, click here (Spring Semester 2007 updates).

• Some articles (& for more Kappelman articles on the web click here): 

  • Early warning signs of IT project failure (Information Systems Management, Fall 2006) 

    • Abridged version of early warning signs study published online November 2006 by The Institute for Management Excellence along with additional project management materials.

  • We've Only Just Begun To Use IT Wisely  (InformationWeek, May 6, 2002) 

  • Recency Bias Is Short-Sighted  (InformationWeek, March 26, 2001)  

  • The Multibillion-Dollar Answer  (InformationWeek, February 19, 2001)  

  • Crime Is Crime, Online Or Off (InformationWeek, January 15, 2001)  

  • Not All Junk Mail Is Created Equal (InformationWeek, November 13, 2000)  

  • The Future Is Up To Us (InformationWeek, October 16, 2000)  

  • (Almost) Everything Old Is New (InformationWeek, September 18, 2000)

  • Killer Apps & Dead Bodies (InformationWeek, June 26 2000)

  • Some Strategic Y2K Blessings (IEEE Software, March/April, 2000)

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