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"MIS" is an acronym for "Management Information
Systems," "Managing Information System," "Management
of Information Systems," and probably more. We use it
here as a short-hand name for the entire subject of using technology and
information to accomplish the goals of individuals and organizations.
Dr. Leon A. Kappelman is a research scientist, teacher, author,
speaker, and consultant dedicated to helping organizations better manage
their information, systems, and technology assets. Professor
Kappelman brings a uniquely comprehensive big-picture perspective to
high-technology issues because as an educator his students include
software developers, information and communication technology (IT)
managers, and IT users from clerks to executives, and as a consultant his
clients and confidants include software manufacturers, IT managers, and
business owners, as well as executives and policy makers from the public
and private sectors. "When it comes to
technology issues, I try to think in terms of what is best for all the
stakeholders -- users and managers, technology professionals and vendors,
as well as stockholders and society as a whole."
Dr. Kappelman’s professional expertise
includes the strategic management of technology including enterprise
architecture, e-commerce, and e-government; project management; management
of change and technology transfer; continuity of operations and emergency
management; performance measurement including metrics development and
information systems assessment and evaluation; the management of
information assets; information systems development and maintenance; and
high-tech and public policy matters like privacy, security, and software
quality.
Professor Kappelman has
conducted seminars and workshops and presented in North America, Europe,
and Asia; his work has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, New
York Times, Business Week, Newsweek, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post,
Vanity Fair, L.A. Times, and scores of other newspapers and
magazines; he has appeared on CNN, CNBC, PBS, ABC World News Tonight, as
well as innumerable local television and radio stations, and he has
brought nearly $2.5 million in research contracts to the university.
Dr. Kappelman has worked
with organizations involved in banking, insurance, aerospace, defense,
education, telecommunications, retail, all levels of government,
not-for-profits, sales, marketing, distribution, electric utility,
petrochemical, as well as other economic sectors. Some of the enterprises
he has worked with include Alcatel; Ameritech; Candle Corporation; Church
of Latter-Day Saints; CIA; CIGNA; City of Denton, Texas; City of Los
Angeles; Coca-Cola Company; Computer Associates; Department of Veteran
Affairs; EDS; Executive Office of the President of the United States;
Experian; GTE; Honor Technologies; International Y2K Cooperation Center;
JCPenney; Kraft Foods; LL Bean; McDermott; Milliken & Company; Pacific
Bell; Pacific Medical Clinics; President’s Council on the Year 2000
Conversion; Prudential; State of Texas; Texaco; Treasury Department of
Canada; United Nations; Wells Fargo; World Bank; and others. Professor
Kappelman’s pro bono work includes testifying on high-tech issues
several times before the U.S. Congress, speaking at a United Nations IT
conference, participating in a White House industry round table, serving
on the American Heart Association’s IT Expert Panel, editing four books
on solving the Y2K problem, founding and co-chairing the Society for
Information Management's Year 2000 Working Group, and founding and serving
as a member of the three-person steering committee of the UN and World
Bank sponsored YES (Y2K Expert Service) Volunteer Corps.
Since
leaving industry to become an academician in 1988 and receiving his Ph.D.
in Management Information Systems in 1990, Dr. Kappelman has
published several books and more than 80 articles that have appeared in
professional journals such as:
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