Biographies

Dr. Kalevi Pessi
Kalevi Pessi leads the IT management research group at the IT University in Gothenburg. He is head of all IT Management courses at the IT-University. He has served as both Managing Director and Knowledge Management Director for many years in trade and industry. As a consultant he has been working with large international corporations such as Volvo, Ericsson and Electrolux. His current research interest relates to IT business value and architectural design.

Kalevi Pessi

Elisabeth Frisk
Elisabeth Frisk is a PhD student at the Department of Applied IT, Gothenburg University. Her research interests include IT management, IT Evaluation, and Strategic Management. During 2005 and 2007 she was partly involved in a research project financed by the Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRSA). The aim of the research project was to develop new IT Evaluation models for the Fire Rescue Services in Sweden. She was also involved in the organization of ECIS 2006 in Gothenburg. As a teacher she held courses at Gothenburg University, concerning Evaluating IT Investments from a Management Perspective. Since 2008 her research is financed by MIT Research School in Sweden. She has previously worked as a business controller, a financial controller, a chartered accountant and a financial manager.

Elisabeth Frisk

Dr. Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University.
Jan Ljungberg has a PhD in informatics, and is professor in Informatics at the IT-University of Gothenburg. He is responsible for PhD-education at the Department of Applied Information Technology. His research interests lie in the wasteland between information technology and social issues. They focus on usage of IT, and include knowledge management, open source, open innovation, commons based peer production, narratives and IT and organizing. He was organization chair of ECIS 2006, held in Gothenburg.

Jan Ljungberg

Kerstin Grundén
Kerstin Grundén is senior lecturer in informatics at the West University of Sweden. She has also a background as a sociologist. She has made several evaluation studies of implementation of CSCW systems in health care organisations and the social insurance board of Sweden. She has also made several studies of web-based internal education at the national county administration and in the field of health care. In recent years she has made research studies within the field of e-Government, with a focus on social aspects of implementation and use of e-services.

Kerstin Grunden