Professor Emerita Cynthia M. Beath  

cbeath@mail.utexas.edu

Department of IROM, CBA 5.202
1 University Station, B6500             
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-0212

Office Hours: By appointment
Phone 471-2362 (office)

Education:
  • PHD, UCLA, 1986
  • MBA, UCLA, 1975
  • BA, Duke University, 1966

Academic Posts:
  • University of Texas at Austin, 1999 - present
  • Southern Methodist University
  • UCLA
  • University of Minnesota

Research Areas:
  • Information Systems Management
  • Outsourcing

Professional Service:
  • Senior Editor, MISQ Executive, 2001-present
  • Senior Editor Emeritus MIS Quarterly, 2001- 2006
  • Senior Editor, Emeritus, Information Systems Research, 2002 - 2006
  • Associate Editor, Management Science, 2001 - present
  • Editorial Board Member, Organization Science, 1996 - 2004

Current Research Projects:
  • "The Impact of IT Infrastructures on Business Agility"
  • "The IT Sourcing Process: A Framework for Research"
  • "The Demand for IT Skills and Capabilities"

Recent and Representative Publications:
  • “Grooming the 2010 CIO,” (with Ritu Agarwal) A report for the Society of Information Management Advanced Practices Council, January 2007.  Summarized in, “The Coming CIO Shortage,” CIO Insight, 2007.
  • “The Information Technology Workforce: Trends and Implications, 2005-2008” (with Phil Zweig and others), MIS Quarterly Executive, 2006.
  • “Sustainable IT Outsourcing Success: Let Enterprise Architecture Be Your Guide,” (with Jeanne Ross), MIS Quarterly Executive, 2006.
  • “Managing Client Dialogs During Information Systems Design to Facilitate Client Learning,” (with Ann Majchrzak, Ricardo Lim and Wynne Chin), MIS Quarterly 29:4, 2005.
  • “Beyond the Business Case: New Approaches to IT Investment” (with Jeanne W. Ross,), Sloan Management Review,  Winter 2002.
  • “The Untapped Potential of IT Chargeback,” (with Jeanne Ross and Michael Vitale), MIS Quarterly, 1999.
  • “Develop Long-term Competitiveness through Information Technology Assets,” (with Jeanne W. Ross and Dale L. Goodhue), Sloan Management Review, 1996.
  • “The Enactments and Consequences of Token, Shared and Compliant Participation in Information Systems Development,” (with Laurie J. Kirsch), Accounting, Management and Info. Technologies, 1996.  
  • Maintaining Information Systems in Organizations (with E. Burton Swanson) , John Wiley & Sons , 1989.

 

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