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Personal Information

Primary Positions

Other Positions

Research Area

Information Systems, Software Engineering & Health Informatics

Professional Activity

Editorial Responsibilities

• M. Lassen and L. Mathiassen (Eds.). Report on The Eighth Scandinavian Research Seminar on Systemeering, 1985.
• L. Mathiassen (Ed.). Working Habits in Systems Development. SYDPOL Report No. 1, 1987. (In Scandinavian languages)
• Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Co-founder, member of Editorial Collective 1989-1993, member of the editorial board.
• Information, Technology & People. Member of the editorial board.
• Information Systems Journal. Member of the editorial board.
• Information & Organization. Member of the editorial board.
• MIS Quarterly. Associate Editor 2001-2003.
• MIS Quarterly. Senior Editor 2003-2007.
• L. Mathiassen and J. Pries-Heje (Eds.). Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion. Special Issue of European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006.
• Journal of Information Technology. Senior Editor 2010-
  

Program Committees

I have served as a program committee member at a number of international conferences including

• International Conference on Approaches to Prototyping, Namur, Belgium, 1983.
• IRIS 85: Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Aarhus, Denmark, 1985.
• International Conference on System Design for Human Development and Productivity, Berlin, Germany, 1985.
• International Conference on Development and Use of Computer-based Tools-In the Context of Democratization of Work, Århus, 1985.
• IRIS 89: Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Skagen, Denmark, 1989.
• International Conference on Information System, Work and Organization Design, Berlin, Germany, 1989.
• ICIS 90: International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990.
• International Conference on The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies on Information Systems Development, Minneapolis, USA, 1992.
• International Conference on Information Systems Development: Human, Social and Organizational Aspects, Noordwijkerhout, Netherland, 1993.
• CAiSE 95: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Jyväskylä, Finland, 1995.
• ECIS 95: European Conference on Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 1995.
• International Conference on Computers in Context, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1995.
• IFIP WG 8.6 Working Conference on Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology, Oslo, Norway, 1995.
• International Conference on IT and Changes in Organizational Work, Cambridge, England, 1995.
• International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 1995.
• ECIS 96: European Conference on Information Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 1996.
• IFIP WG 8.1/8.2 Working Conference on Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support, Atlanta, USA, 1996.
• International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, London, England, 1996.
• IFIP WG 8.6: Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, Ambleside, Lake Windermere, UK, 1997.
• ICIS 97: International Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, USA, 1997.
• IFIP WG 8.2: Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, 2000.
• IFIP WG 8.2: Realigning Research and Practice in IS Development: The Social and Organisational Perspective, Boise, USA, 2001.
• ICIS 01: International Conference on Information Systems, New Orleans, USA, 2001 (Senior Editor).
• ECIS 01: European Conference on Information Systems, Bled, Slovenia, 2001 (Associate Chair).
• ECIS 02: European Conference on Information Systems, Gdansk, Poland, 2002.
• ECIS 03: European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy, 2003.
• Agile Development Conference, Salt Lake City, USA, 2003.
• IFIP WG 8.6: IT Innovation for Adaptiveness and Competitive Advantage, Leixlip, Ireland, 2004.
• IFIP WG 8.2: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20 year Perspective on IS Research, Manchester, UK, 2004.
• IFIP WG 8.6: Business Agility and IT Diffusion, Atlanta, US, 2005 (Program co-Chair).
• IFIP WG 8.6: Transfer and Diffusion of IT for Organizational Resilience, Galway, Ireland, 2006.
• International Conference on Business Process Management, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
• International Conference on Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education, Galway, Ireland, 2007.
• International Workshop on BPM Governance, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
• IFIP WG 8.6: Organizational Dynamics of Technology-based Innovation - Diversifying the Research Agenda, Manchester, UK, 2007.
• IFIP WG 8.6: Open IT-based Innovation - Moving Towards Cooperative IT-transfer and Knowledge Diffusion, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
• Agile Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2008.
• International Conference on Information Systems Development: Towards a Service-provision Society, Phaphos, Cypros, 2008.
• Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, 2008.
• Agile Conference, Chicago, US, 2009.
• ECIS 09: European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, Italy, 2009 (Panel Chair).
• International Conference on Information Systems Development: Practice and Theory in Web-based IS, Nanchang, China, 2009.
• IFIP WG 8.2-8.6: Human Benefit through the Diffusion of IS Design Science Research, Perth, Australia, 2010.
• Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems: Engaged Scandinavian IS Research, Northern Jutland, Denmark, 2010.
  
• ICIS 10: International Conference on Information Systems, Saint Louis, USA, 2010 (Track Chair).
• International Conference on Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010.
• First International Conference on Software Business, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2010.
  
• IFIP WG 8.2: Researching the Future, Turku, Finland, 2011.

Research Policy

I have participated in a number of policy making activities within the Danish Ministry for Research

• 1996          Member of Committee on National Danish IT Research Strategy.
• 1997-2000 Research Director, Danish National Center for IT Research.
• 1999-2002 Member of Managerial Board for National, Interdisciplinary IT Research Program.
• 2000-2001 Member of Committee on National Danish Research Policy and Strategy.
  
• 2005-         Chairman National Danish Committee for Strategic Research in Growth Technology.
  

Research Grants

I have participated in the design, establishment, and management of the following research programs

• The DUE project (Democracy, Development, and Electronic Data Processing), University of Aarhus, 1977-1980, 4 mio. dkr.
• The MARS project (Methodologies and Practices in Systems Development), University of Aarhus, 1982-1985, 3 mio. dkr.
• The SYDPOL program (Systems Development Environments and Profession Oriented Languages), University of Aalborg, 1985-1990, 3 mio. dkr.
• The SE program, (Productivity and Quality in Software Engineering), University of Aalborg, 1990-1994, 2 mio. dkr.
• The Software Factory Program, University of Aalborg, 1995-1997, 1.5 mio. dkr.
• The Software Process Improvement Project, University of Aalborg, 1997-1999, 20 mio. dkr.
• Managing Knowledge in Software Organizations, University of Aalborg, 2001-2002, 100.000 dkr.
• Wireless, Multimedia-Based Information Services to Improve Healthcare Performance, Georgia Research Alliance, 2003-2006, $225,000.
• Researching Gartner's Research Process, Gartner, 2003-2004, $112,800.
• Improving Requirements Management, Byers Engineering, 2004-2007, $94,000.
• Sales Process Innovation Enabled by Mobile Technology, Cbeyond Communications, 2005-2005, $60,000.
• IT-based Innovations, Intel, 2005-2007, $50,000.
• Health-e-Station, NEGA, 2005, $54,000.
• Business Process Innovation, Danish Ministry of Research, 2005-2008, $87,500.
• IT-based Service Innovation, Copenhagen University, 2006-2008, $30,000.
• IT-enabled Process Innovation in a Network of Minority Businesses, Open Systems, 2006-2008, $20,000.
• Community Driven Telehealth Innovation, East Georgia Health Cooperative, 2007-2009, $94,000.
• Innovation within the Health Industry, Georgia Health Policy Center, 2007-2009, $60,000.
• Research into IT-enabled Process Innovation, Umeå University, 2009-2012, $350,000.
  

Teaching and Supervision

I have taught a great variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Systems & Software Engineering. I have been supervisor for more than 100 computer science, software engineering, and informatics master thesis students. I have supervised the following doctoral students

• Andreas Munk-Madsen, Aarhus University, 1985.
• Ivan Aaen, Aalborg University, 1990.
• Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, 1991.
• Carsten Sørensen, Aalborg University, 1993.
• Lars Bækgaard, Aalborg University, 1993.
• Helana Scheepers, Aalborg University, 2000.
• Birgitte Krogh, Aalborg University, 2000.
• Jakob Iversen, Aalborg University, 2000.
• Pouya Pourkomeylian, Viktoria Institute, Göteborg, 2001.
• Claus Rosenstand, Aalborg University, 2002.
• Ingegerd Andersson, IT-University, Göteborg, 2003.
• Kerstin Nilsson, IT-University, Göteborg, 2003.
• Helle Damborg Fredriksen, Aalborg University, 2004.
• Keld Pedersen, Aalborg University, 2005.
• Anna Börjesson, IT University, Göteborg, 2006.
• Agneta Nilsson, IT University, Göteborg, 2006.
• Sunyoung Cho, Georgia State University, 2007.
• Nannette Napier, Georgia State University, 2007.
• Mark Lewis, Georgia State University, 2008 (with Arun Rai).
• Sune Dueholm Muller, Aarhus Business School, 2009 (with Pernille Kræmmergaard).
• Gitte Tjørnehøj, Aalborg University, 2009 (with Peter Axel Nielsen).
• John Persson, Aalborg University, 2010 (with Ivan Aaen).
• Rajendra Singh, Georgia State University, started 2005.
• Brett Young, Georgia State University, started 2005.
• Tim Olsen, Georgia State University, started 2007 (with Richard Welke).
• Darryl Romanov, Georgia State University, started 2008.
• Heidi Tscherning, Copenhagen Business School, started 2008 (with Jan Damsgaard).
• Henrik Wimelius, Umeå University, started 2008 (with Jonny Holmström).
• Cathy Neher, Georgia State University, started 2009.
• Louis Grabowski, Georgia State University, started 2009.
• Timothy Crim, Georgia State University, started 2009.
  

I have served as a faculty member in the following doctoral consortia

• ECIS, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1998.
• ICIS, Helsinki, Finland, 1999.
• ECIS, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999 (Chairman and Organizer).
• ICIS, Las Vegas, USA, 2005.
  

Consultancy

• I have advised a number of organizations on process innovation, software engineering & management, quality assurance, project management, and IT strategy. The companies include Gartner, Intel, Ericsson, Volvo, AstraZeneca, Danske Bank, Cbeyond Communications, Byers Engineering, and Systematic Software Engineering. I give courses and seminars to managers and IT professionals on a regular basis.
• Together with Andreas Munk-Madsen I founded and managed Metodica, a Danish consultancy company offering services to IT departments and software houses. Metodica was established in 1986 and I was active within the company until 2002.
• I have served as expert consultant for a number of European Research & Development Programs including Functional Analysis of Office Requirements and Euromethod.

Awards and Recognition

• In 1991, I was awarded Teacher of the Year among 500 colleagues at the Science & Technology Faculty at University of Aalborg (Prize: 25.000 dkr.).
• In 1994, Aalborg University had, for the first time, the opportunity to promote a small number of its approximately 60 full professors. Together with six colleagues I was awarded an annual bonus (45.000 dkr) for my contributions to research, research education, and education in general.
• In 1999, I became a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.
• In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to International Conference on Systems Development, Kristianssand, Norway.
• In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to Twenty-third Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Udevalla, Sweden.
• In 2000, I was invited as keynote speaker to Conference on Business Information Technology Management, Manchester, UK.
• In 2001, I was invited as keynote speaker to Conference on Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations, Banff, Canada.
• In 2001, I was invited as keynote speaker to Recent Object Oriented Symposium, Bergen, Norway.
• In 2002, the paper "Collaborative Practice Research" was awarded Most Outstanding Paper by Information, Technology & People.
• In 2004, the paper “Making SPI Happen: The Roads to Process Implementation” was awarded best paper at European Conference on Information Systems.
• In 2006, the paper "Negotiating Repeat-Ability and Response-Ability in Requirements Engineering" was awarded best paper in track at International Conference on Information Systems.
• In 2008, the paper "From Dichotomy to Ambidexterity: Transcending Traditions in Systems Development" was awarded best paper in track at Americas Conference on Information Systems.
• In 2008, I was invited as keynote speaker to the annual Nordic PhD Seminar at Magleaas, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• In 2009, I was nominated Senior Member of The Association for Computing Machinery.
  
• In 2010, the paper "The Role of Social Networks in Early Adoption of Mobile Devices" was awarded best paper at IFIP WG 8.2-8.6 Conference.