Steve Alter brings to his teaching a mix of practical business
experience and extensive research. Prior to joining USF, Steve
served as founding Vice President of Consilium, Inc. a
manufacturing software firm that went public and later was acquired
by Applied Materials. He is recognized as the developer of the work
system method for understanding and analyzing IT-reliant systems
from a business viewpoint. Steve teaches undergraduate, MBA, and
MBAE courses related to systems in organizations and
technology-enabled innovation. The most recent of his seven books
is
The Work System Method: Connecting People, Processes, and IT
for Business Results, which is based on his 30 years of
research, teaching and business experience. See
www.stevenalter.com for a
summary of the basic ideas and for access to a large number of his
journal publications.
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Research Award, Senior Faculty, 1999, 2002, 2005,
2007.
Outstanding Service Award, Senior Faculty, 2007
"Moving toward a Service Metaphor for Describing, Evaluating, and
Designing Systems," nominated for Best Paper at the Conference
European Conference on Information Systems, June, 2008.
"Making Work System Principles Visible and Usable in Systems
Analysis and Design, recognized as Best Paper in the technology
track, AMCIS 2004.
"A Work System View of DSS in its Fourth Decade," selected by an
independent review board as one of the top fifty papers published
in 2004 by Emerald Group Publishing, which publishes over 150
journals.
