Special Section: Exploring the Outlands of the MIS Discipline

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert O. BriggsRobert O. Briggs is Research Coordinator at the Center for the Management ofInformation at the University of Arizona and Director of Product Management at Ventana Corporation. As a researcher, he has published more than fifty scholarly works on the theoretical foundations for using collaborative technology to enhance group productivity, group creativity, and group satisfaction. His work on organizational transition to collaborative technology led to new insights about how to conceive of and deploy group support systems in order to create self-sustaining and growing communities of users. He is ranked by Decision Line as one of the most productive information systems researchers worldwide. As Director of Product Management at Ventana Corporation, Dr. Briggs applies research findings from the laboratory and the field to the development of new collaborative technologies, processes, and working environments, and oversees the future evolution of collaborative software products.Jay F. NunamakerJay F. Nunamaker, Jr. is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson. In 1996, Dr. Nunamaker received the DPMAEDSIG Distinguished IS Educator Award. The GroupSystems software resulting rom his research received the Editor’s Choice Award from PC Magazine in 1994. At the GroupWare 1993 conference, he received the GroupWare Achievement Award along with recognition of GroupSystems as best of show in the GDSS category. In 1992 he received the Arthur Anderson Consulting Professor of the Year Award. Dr. Nunamaker received his Ph.D. in systems engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an M.S. and B.S. in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University.Ralph SpragueRalph H. Sprague, Jr. is Professor of Decision Science in the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii. He has over thirty years of exerience in teaching, research, and consulting in the use of computers and information technologies in organizations. His specialties are decision support systems, strategic systems planning, management of information systems, and electronic document management. He has served as chairman and co-chair of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences for the past twenty years.

• 저널Journal of Management Information Systems · 16(3) · 5–9
• 토픽Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services · Information Systems
• DOI10.1080/07421222.1999.11518253
• 저자Robert O. Briggs, Jay F. Nunamaker, Ralph H. Sprague, Vladimir Zwass