Contact Details
| Organization: | Information Systems |
| Position: | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR |
| Email: | |
| Homepage: | http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/peter/home.htm |
| Work: | 8344 1576 |
| Mobile: | 0407 984 453 |
| Fax: | 9349 4596 |
| Room: | 3.49 |
| Level: | 03 |
| Building: | 111-117 Barry St. |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Peter B. Seddon is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His teaching and research focus on helping people and organizations gain greater benefits from their use of information technology. His major publications have been in the areas of evaluating information systems success, packaged enterprise application software, IT outsourcing, IT management, and accounting information systems.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Enterprise Systems, ERP systems, IT Outsourcing, IS Effectiveness, Accounting, Information Systems, Managing the IT Function | Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Commerce | University of Melbourne | 31-Dec-1973 | |
| Bachelor of Science Hons | University of Melbourne | 31-Dec-1968 | |
| Graduate Diploma of Computer Studies | University of Melbourne | 12-Dec-1978 | |
| Doctor of Philosophy | University of Melbourne | 31-Dec-1991 |
Memberships
| Membership Type | Membership Body | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Association for Information Systems | Member | 01-Jan-1999 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
- Information Systems Organisation (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280101)
- Information Systems Management (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280102)
- Information Storage, Retrieval and Management (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280103)
- Conceptual Modelling (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280111)
- Information Systems not elsewhere classified (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280199)
- Business Information Systems (incl. Data Processing) (BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT) (350202)
- Innovation and Technology Management (BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT) (350211)
- Business and Management not elsewhere classified (BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT) (350299)
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
- Application packages (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700101)
- Application tools and system utilities (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700102)
- Information processing services (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700103)
- Computer software and services not elsewhere classified (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700199)
- Information services not elsewhere classified (OTHER INFORMATION SERVICES) (700299)
- Management (MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY ISSUES) (720403)
- Technological and organisational innovation (OTHER ECONOMIC ISSUES) (729901)
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title | Role | Funding Source | Scheme | Award Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managing IT Service Provision and Sourcing in Australia, 2010-2019 | Chief Investigator | AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL | Discovery Projects | 01/01/2007 |
| Competing on Business Analytics | Chief Investigator | AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL | Discovery Projects | 01/01/2009 |
| BENCHMARKING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPACT IN ORGANISATIONS | Chief Investigator | QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY | Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) |
Additional Grant and Contract Information
Managing the IT Function in large Australian Organizations, 2010-2019(Australian Research Council Discovery project DP0771805, with Leslie Willcocks and Sara Cullen, funded for 2007-2009, $320K)
The goal of this project is to understand how IT functions in large organizations in Australia should be structured and managed in the second decade of the twenty-first century (2010-2019). This topic is important because commoditization of IT and globalization of IT service provision are rapidly and dramatically changing the way IT is sourced and how IT functions around the developed world are structured; considerable numbers of IT jobs seem destined to be “offshored” to the low-wage economies. By studying a number of large Australian organizations over three years, we hope to be able to offer sound advice to Australian Chief Information Officers (CIOs) on the best ways to structure and manage their IT functions during the next decade.
Competing on Business Analytics
(Australian Research Council Discovery project DP0987003, with Graeme Shanks, Rens Scheepers, and Peter Reynolds, funded for 2009-2011, $420K)
The goal of this project is to develop and test a model that explains and predicts how organisations can gain competitive advantage from their use of business analytics. Business analytics involves the collection, storage and interpretation of data in order to make better decisions and to optimize business processes. Although analytic techniques have been used in business for many years to aid decision-making, many organisations have had difficulty in achieving anticipated benefits from large-scale, enterprise-wide, business-analytic systems, e.g., data warehouses. Recently, however, Davenport (Competing on Analytics, Harvard Business Review, January 2006) and Davenport and Harris (Competing on Analytics, Harvard Business School Press, 2007), have provided substantial case-study evidence of the successful use of business-analytic systems to gain competitive advantage. Stimulated by the success of these US companies, the goal of this project is to explore the circumstances under which business analytics can be used to obtain competitive advantage in large Australian organizations.
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.