Jane Fedorowicz

Jane Fedorowicz

Submitted by on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 10:29

Jane Fedorowicz, Chester B. Slade Professor of Accounting and Information systems, holds a joint appointment in the Accountancy and Information & Process Management departments at Bentley University, where she teaches courses on enterprise system configuration, business processes, and internal controls. She is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project team studying design issues for police and government agency collaboration using public safety networks.

Designing Collaborative Networks: Lessons Learned from Public Safety

Submitted by on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 13:14

This report offers practical advice to public managers and political leaders who are addressing complex public challenges through multi-organizational networks.  The use of collaborative networks of organizations has matured in the past decade.  However, the developers of collaborative networks face political, organizational, and technological challenges in a world accustomed to the traditional, hierarchical approach to problem-solving and accountability.

The E-Government Collaboration Challenge: Lessons from Five Case Studies

Submitted by on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 20:00

This report examines five diverse case studies in which collaboration depended on the effective use of information technology. The authors assess the political, administrative, and technical challenges that occurred in each of these five case studies and find commonalities across the cases in both the challenges faced and lessons learned. They conclude, "Interestingly, the technical challenges tended to be the least difficult to surmount...."

Chester B. Slade Professor of Accounting and Information systems
Bentley University Departments of Accountancy and Information and Process Management
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
United States
781-891-3153

jfedorowicz@bentley.edu

Jane Fedorowicz, Chester B. Slade Professor of Accounting and Information systems, holds a joint appointment in the Accountancy and Information & Process Management departments at Bentley University, where she teaches courses on enterprise system configuration, business processes, and internal controls. She is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project team studying design issues for police and government agency collaboration using public safety networks. She also served as principal investigator for the Bentley Invision Project, an international research team housed at Bentley examining interorganizational information-sharing and the coordination infrastructures supporting these relationships in supply chains, government, and health care. Her interdisciplinary research supports a sociotechnical perspective on organizational collaboration in both the public and private sectors. The Association for Information Systems recognized her contributions to the Information Systems field by naming her an AIS Fellow in 2006.

Dr. Fedorowicz has published over 125 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and coauthored a textbook entitled “Business Processes and Information Technology.” She has served in a governance capacity for a number of professional associations, including the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Professor Fedorowicz currently serves as President of the international professional organization, the Association for Information Systems.

Dr. Fedorowicz earned MS and PhD degrees in Systems Sciences from The Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.