Centre Universitaire d'Informatique

Supply Chain Intelligence or Supply Network Wisdom? IS tools for top-down and bottom-up approaches to inter-organizational business processes change

With Prof. Marco De Marco, Università Cattolica in Milan, Italy

Abstract:

In today's competitive environments, organizations are connected in complex networks of different and ever evolving interdependencies: such interdependencies are at the base of many emerging challenges for Information Systems . Supply chain management tackles inter-firm relationships throughout the value chain focusing on the traditional flows of materials or documents, but, even more importantly, on flows of decisions, information and knowledge, moving up and down the value chain. The most promising strategies in this field are related to process integration, business intelligence and inter-firm cooperation management.

Short Bio:

Marco De Marco is full professor of Organization and Information Systems at the Università Cattolica in Milan. He also teaches the Business Organization course at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Before embarking upon his academic career he worked as a research engineer and product planning manager in the aerospace (Boeing) and computer (IBM, GE, and Honeywell) industries. He is the author of four books and numerous essays and articles; mainly on the development of information systems and the impacts of technology on organizations. Marco De Marco has worked as a consultant for a wide range of important public institutions, such as the Venice City Council, the Rome City Council, the Lombardy Regional Government, the Hospital Administration Authority, and the Ministry of Justice as well as the Italian parliament. He has also been a consultant to the major trades unions of Italian bank employees. He is a member of the editorial board of several academic journals, including the Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Digital Accounting Research, Banking and Information Technology, Information Systems and e-Business Management. Marco De Marco was a founder in 2003 and former President of the Italian Association for Information Systems (ITAIS), the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems. In 2008 and 2009, he was a Board committee member of the Association for Information Systems, representing Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He is the editor-in-chief of the Informatica e Organizzazioni book series published by Franco Angeli. He has worked on several projects of European breadth and has served as ECIS conference officer, acting as conference chair at ECIS2009 in Verona. In the past, his main research interests have included information system development and performance measurement methodologies, while bank information systems and their specificities were a particular study and focus. More recently, he has investigated the impact on organizations of information systems and Information Technology generally, leading him to focus on the themes of ERP systems due to their strong influence on the organization of companies and Business Process Management, perceived as a fundamental aspect in optimizing the delivery of services. Marco has been a driving force in getting the Italian scientific community to integrate with the international community, a success attested to by the fact that both ECIS 2003 and ECIS 2009 were staged in Italy, where also ICIS 2013 will be held.

Date: Monday April 18th, 2011, 18.15

Location: Battelle bât A, auditorium ground floor

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