Richard Boland, Professor. I do qualitative studies of individuals as they design and use information. My interest is in how people make meaning as they interpret situations in an organization, or as they interpret data in a report. I have studied this hermeneutic process in a wide range of settings and professions, but primarily has focused on how managers and consultants turn an ambiguous situation into a problem statement and declare a particular course of action to be rational. I have approached this in a variety of ways, including symbolic interaction, metaphor, cause mapping, frame shifting, language games and exegesis. Most recently I am fascinated with narrative and design as modes of cognition which are systematically undervalued yet dominate our meaning making.
Fred Collopy, Professor
and Chair. My research has included the development of expert
systems to do business forecasting, objective setting in organizations
and time perception in computer users. I am currently working
on issues in interface and instrument design and on the idea
of managing as designing.
Kalle Lyytinen, Professor. I am currently involved in research projects that look at the IT induced innovation in software development, architecture and the construction industry. I am also developing a high level requirements model for large scale systems.
