Steven Alter

Professor of Information Systems

Tel:415-422-6383
Fax:415-422-2502
TDD:415-422-6439
alter@usfca.edu

2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045 U.S.A.

• Ph.D., Management Science, Sloan School of Management, MIT
• B.S., Mathematics, MIT

• MBA616: Systems in Organizations
• MBAE704-708: Information Systems Stream

• At the School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco since 1987
• Member, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco Peer Review Committee (2006)
• Member, Academic Affairs Committee of the USF Board of Trustees (2002-2004)

• How business professionals can analyze information systems for themselves
• Foundational concepts of Information Systems
• Development of "Sysperanto"

• “Could the Work System Method Embrace Systems Concepts More Fully?” Information Resource Management Journal, 20(2), April-June 2007, pp 33- 43.  (in press)
• “Pitfalls in Analyzing Systems in Organizations.” Journal of Information System Education, 17(3), Fall 2006, pp. 295-302.
• The Work System Method: Connecting People, Processes, and IT for Business Results, Work System Press, 2006.
• “Work Systems and IT Artifacts: Does the Definition Matter?” Communications of the AIS , 17 (14), Feb. 2006, pp. 299-313
• “Goals and Tactics on the Dark Side of Knowledge Management.” HICSS-39, the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Poipu, HI, Jan. 4-7, 2006. Published in the Proceedings.
• "A Broad View of Systems Analysis and Design.” Communications of the AIS, 16 (50), Dec. 2005, pp. 981-99.
• “Architecture of Sysperanto - A Model-Based Ontology of the IS Field.” Communications of the AIS, 15(1), Jan. 2005, pp. 1-40.
• For a complete list of papers and downloads of recent papers please see Professor Alter's web site.

• Senior Editor and member of Editorial Board of CAIS, the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (2002 - present)
• Editorial Board, MIS Quarterly - Executive (2004 - present)
• Editorial Board, JAIS, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2006 - present)
• Editorial Board, Systems, Signs, and Action (2004 - present)
• Vice President, Consilium, Inc., Mountain View, CA (1979-1987)
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (1975-1979)

• Faculty Research Award, Senior Faculty, 1999, 2002, and 2005.
• Best paper in the technology track, AMCIS 2004.
• “A Work System View of DSS in its Fourth Decade” was 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.

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