CEMS COMMUNITY Academic Members & Faculty CEMS Faculty Groups Ordered List Enterprise Networks and ICTEnterprise Networks and ICT
This faculty groups aim at exploring networking and the support ICT might offer to improve it. Starting from a group of I.S. professors who had long collaboration in CEMS courses and E.U. projects, the faculty enlarged including colleagues with different backgrounds: marketing, computer science, strategy.
As a group we are interested at exploring the concept of ICT enabled networking at several levels: individuals, organisations, industries and society as a whole.
ICT-based innovation: European cases
Networking is an important evidence in business and every day life. Nowadays, ICT enhance and improve personal and inter-organisational networks.
As private citizens we face growing opportunities to access information and communities, independently from their physical location. This phenomenon can be viewed positively, but it also brings many challenges, such as those associated with gaining the competencies required for using ICT.
Internet is reinforcing existing contacts among business partners and creating new ones among geographically distant operators, within and across national boundaries.
The same structure of industries and traditional business networks and their functioning are changing.
Given this framework, the Block Seminar addresses the issue of networking and ICT at several levels (individuals, business, industry, country) and from several points of view (psychological, macroeconomic, information systems).
Each day combines some theoretical reflections with a case study or other empirical data. All cases give an idea about the reasons for networking; the actors involved (individuals, businesses, governments, etc.); the technical infrastructure required; the organisational, business or economic issues, and the implications of the case for the actors.
In some sessions the presence of an expert of other disciplines (anthropologist, sociologist and psychologist) offers a broader view of ICT based networking.
The Block Seminar lasts 5 days and encourages co-teaching, while all professors are invited to stay more than one day to create a better link from one day to the other.
ICT-based innovation: European cases
The doctoral consortium on “Enterprise Networks and ICT” has been designed to bring together Ph.D candidates and faculty in order to facilitate focused and in-depths discussions. In 2005 the consortium was organised in cooperation with the IS department of ESADE Business School in Barcelona (http://is.esade.edu/). The consortium covered areas such as
- ICT use in teams, groups, virtual communities, virtual organizations;
- Electronic Business in networked environments (value webs, etc.);
- Inter-organisational systems and business networks;
- ICT impact on a sectorial and national level.
The consortium was facilitated by CEMS in cooperation with the Mediterranean IS Research group. However, participation was open and not limited to CEMS member or Mediterranean schools.
