R. Ryan Nelson

Director, MS in the Management of Information Technology 12-Month Program (Charlottesville Section)
Director, Center for the Management of Information Technology
Professor of Commerce 

Office phone: 434-924-7587
e-mail: rnelson@virginia.edu
Web site: http://gates.comm.virginia.edu/rrn2n

Education:

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, University of Georgia
M.P.A., Management Information Systems, The Ohio State University
B.S., Public Administration, James Madison University

Areas of Expertise:

Project management, business process management, innovation and technology management.

Professional Activities:

Professor Nelson is active in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs at the McIntire School of Commerce. He has served as the director of the Center for the Management of Information Technology since its founding in 1991 and as a director of the Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology (M.S. in MIT) program since 1999. Professor Nelson has published articles on project management, information and system quality, and IT human capital in a variety of academic and professional journals, including MIS Quarterly; MIS Quarterly Executive; Communications of the ACM; Journal of Management Information Systems; Information & Management; International Information Systems; Data Base; CIO; and Case Research Journal, among others. In addition, he edited a book titled End-User Computing: Concepts, Issues & Applications, published by John Wiley & Sons. Professor Nelson also serves as a reviewer for many professional journals and is a member of the editorial board for MIS Quarterly Executive. Before joining the McIntire School of Commerce, he served on the faculty of the University of Houston and worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Professor Nelson has served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the Texas Air Corporation, the CFA Institute, Home Federal Savings & Loan, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Selected Publications: 

“IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices,” MIS Quarterly Executive, June 2007.

“Project Retrospectives: Evaluating Success, Failure, and Everything In Between,” MIS Quarterly Executive, September 2005.

“Antecedents of Information and System Quality: An Empirical Examination within the Context of Data Warehousing,” Journal of Management Information Systems, spring 2005 (with P. A. Todd and B. H. Wixom).

“The Assessment of End-User Training Needs,” Communications of the ACM, July 1995 (reprinted in Strategy and Planning for Information Resources, edited by Y. Pollalis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998) (with E. M. Whitener and H. Philcox).

“Perceived Usefulness, Ease of Use, and Usage of Information Technology: A Replication,” MIS Quarterly, June 1992 (with D. A. Adams, P. A. Todd).

“Educational Needs as Perceived by IS and End-User Personnel: A Survey of Knowledge and Skill Requirements,” MIS Quarterly, December 1991.

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