Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach

Dr. Keri E. Pearlson is president of KP Partners, a CIO advisory services firm specializing in executive education and management coaching in the area of strategic use of information systems and organizational design. A former faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Pearlson is the co-author of Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value—Every Time, All the Time (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Dr. Pearlson holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) in Management Information Systems from the Harvard Business School and both a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics from Stanford University.

Dr. Carol S. Saunders is Professor of MIS at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. She served as General Conference Chair of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 1999 and Telecommuting'96. She was the chair of the ICIS Executive Committee in 2000 and editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly from 2005-2007. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Dr. Saunders holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Management from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to her academic positions, Dr. Saunders has worked for IBM and EXXON Company, U.S.A.