Mary Lacity

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Mary Cecelia Lacity (born May 27, 1963 in Margate City ) is an American Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas . Her research focuses on: automation , outsourcing and blockchain.

Life

Lacity graduated from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Houston .

She was Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and International Business Fellow of the Board of Trustees at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and visiting fellow at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research . She also held visiting professorships at the London School of Economics , Washington University and Oxford University .

Career

University of Missouri-St. Louis

Mary Lacity began at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and worked there for 26 years. She began as an assistant professor at MIS, was appointed associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2004. In 2012 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and International Business Fellow of the Board of Trustees. She taught courses on qualitative research methods and philosophy of science and qualitative research methods. [10]

Sam M. Walton College of Business

After her time at the University of Missouri-St. Louis moved Mary Lacity to Fayetteville , Arkansas to take on the position of Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence. The goals of the Blockchain Center of Excellence are to develop research partnerships, promote the dissemination of knowledge about blockchain and promote the adoption of blockchain technology by industry.

Miscellaneous

She is co-editor of the Palgrave Series: Work, Technology, and Globalization, Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly Executive and the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, and on the editorial boards for the Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Strategic Outsourcing.

Mary Lacity is also an Industry Advisor for Symphony Ventures and a member of the IAOP Outsourcing Hall of Fame.

She received the World Outsourcing Achievement Award in 2000 and the Gateway to Innovation Award in 2008.

Her publications have appeared in Harvard Business Review , Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Computer, and Communications of the ACM.

Publications

• Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and Realities (1993) ISBN 9780471956044
• Beyond The Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response (1995) ISBN 9780471958222
• Inside Information Technology Outsourcing: A State-of-the-art Report (2000) ISBN 9781873955079
• Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage (2001) ISBN 9780471899594
• Netsourcing: Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network (2002) ISBN 0130923559
• Outsourcing: All You Need to Know (2004) ISBN 9780992343613
• Information Systems and Outsourcing (2008) ISBN 9781349302000
• Information Systems and Outsourcing: Studies in Theory and Practice (2008) ISBN 9780230594838
• Offshore Outsourcing of It Work (2008) ISBN 9780230521858
• The Practice of Outsourcing: From Information Systems to BPO and Offshoring (2009) ISBN 9780230205413
• Emerging ITO and BPO Markets: Rural Sourcing and Impact Sourcing (2012) ISBN 9780769549187
• The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing: Risk and Opportunity (2014) ISBN 9781472906403
• South Africa's BPO Service Advantage: Becoming Strategic in the Global Marketplace (2015) ISBN 9781137474056
• Nine Keys to World-Class Business Process Outsourcing (2015) ISBN 9781472918482
• Service Automation: Robots and the Future of Work (2016) ISBN 9780956414564
• Robotic Process Automation and Risk Mitigation: The Definitive Guide (2017) ISBN 9780995682030

Web links

Commons : Mary Lacity  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the University of Missouri

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita - MARY CECELIA Lacity. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ 2020 Tina Alvey DaleRare badges and toilet paper among US Marshals Museum unique exhibitsApril 26, 2020 Michael TilleyGov. Hutchinson: No high school graduation ceremonies prior to July 1 April 25: UA launches Blockchain Center of Excellence to work on industry applications. In: Talk Business & Politics. August 2, 2018, Retrieved April 27, 2020 (American English). 
3. ^ Walton College Establishes Blockchain Center of Excellence. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} IAOP - Mary Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks to be Inducted into IAOP's Outsourcing Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Bloomsbury.com: Bloomsbury - Mary Lacity - Mary Lacity. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English). 
6. ↑ Mary C. Lacity, Leslie Willcocks: What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from automation . In: Harvard Business Review . June 19, 2015, ISSN  0017-8012 ( hbr.org [accessed April 27, 2020]).
7. ↑ Rudy Hirsch Home, Mary Lacity: The Myths and Realities of Information Technology Insourcing | February 2000 | Communications of the ACM. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .