The Management Information Systems Program conducts research in the areas of Information Systems Analysis and Design (ISAD), business process modelling, and related areas of information and knowledge management. Data and process modelling are increasingly critical to organisations in current competitive markets, with business process management now perceived to be a high business priority.
The sheer volume of the available modelling techniques has made the selection of these techniques difficult for practitioners due to the lack of a generally accepted theoretical foundation that could serve as a benchmark. The lack of a benchmark has also impacted the evaluation, and thus improvement and development, of such techniques.
This program focuses on a representation theory foundation and the program demonstrates, through its research publications, the benefits of this theoretical foundation in applied areas of MIS such as systems analysis and design, business process modelling, data modelling, knowledge management, e-Learning, enterprise systems interoperability, e-Commerce, and electronic supply chain integration.
Researchers in the program are currently involved in a number of projects funded by grants from the Australian Research Council and other funding sources.
