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Presentation for the Evaluation Team in Västerås 15 May 2006. The Research School MIT. Founding Group Uppsala (UU) Linköping (LiU) Karlstad (KU) Blekinge (BTH). Additions at Start Gotland (HG) Jönköping (JIBS) Mälardalen (MdH) Later Additions Lund (LU) Växjö (VU) Örebro (ÖU).
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Presentation for the Evaluation Team in Västerås 15 May 2006 The Research School MIT
Founding Group Uppsala (UU) Linköping (LiU) Karlstad (KU) Blekinge (BTH) Additions at Start Gotland (HG) Jönköping (JIBS) Mälardalen (MdH) Later Additions Lund (LU) Växjö (VU) Örebro (ÖU) An Expanding Network
Present State of the Project • Annual budget of MSEK 14 • Students • 46 % fully financed • 46 % women • 60 % Faculty of Technology and Science • Dissertations • 21 licentiate theses defended • Two doctoral dissertations defended • 11 doctoral dissertations expected during 2006 • Target: > 25 doctoral dissertations
Teaching Activities in 2005/2006 • Courses on Methods • Perspectives on Research and Science (Uppsala) • Seminar on Submitted Dissertations (Linköping) • Qualitative Research Methods (Stockholm) • Subject Courses • Information, Communication and Organisational Forms (Uppsala) • Research in information systems and informatics (Lund) • Strategy and IS (Lund) • Three Workshops
Examples of Dissertations • Organization and IT • Service Platforms in the Development of Mobile IT (Wrenne) • Knowledge Processes in Health and Medical Care (Wismén) • Theatre Production - A System Development Process (Abelli) • IT and Project Management (Maaninen-Olsson) • Production and Inventory Systems (Zhiping) • Business Relationships • IT and Resource Interaction (Baraldi) • Self-Service Recovery (Johansson) • Supplier-Customer Relationships (Ekman and Thilenius) • Call Centres (Stoltz) • Customer Loyalty Programmes (Sällberg)
Internationalisation Efforts • Efforts to recruite international faculty (Orlikowski, Kallinikos, Carlsson, etc.) • Collaboration with KATAJA • International Conference (ISD 2005) at KU • Conference participation by students and faculty • Visits abroad by students and faculty • Post doc appointments abroad
Conditions for the Future • The resources are permanently allocated to Uppsala University • The resources can be used for doctoral training and post doctoral positions • The Ministry supposes that the colla-boration between partners continues • National evaluation in 2007
Strategies • Examination of licentiates and doctors • Post-doc programme • Project Appointments for 12 months • MIT alumni • Continuing the doctoral programme • Further internationalisation • Further integration
Integration • Studying the frames of references • Titles • Keywords • References • View • Pulling the dissertations together • Joint research programme
The Research Programme • The IT industry (Supply) • Development of the field (IO) • Systems development (SD) • IT in use (Demand) • Enterprise information systems (EIS) • Customer Relations (CR) • Supply and demand in interaction
Responses to Last Report • Internationalization • Continuing conference participation and visits • Developing links to Case Western, LSE and Stanford • Postdocs going abroad • Extension • Related to internationalization • Integration • An activity with high priority • Multiple financing • Grant applications