2010 Award Winner
Kenneth E. Kendall
Dr. Kendall is a
Distinguished Professor of Management at Rutgers University, School of
Business-Camden. He is one of the founders of the International
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), a Fellow of the Decision
Sciences Institute (DSI), and was awarded the Silver Core from IFIP. Ken
is also a Past President of DSI. He has published over 90 research
articles and numerous books.
Ken was the first person to be awarded a doctorate in MIS from the
University at Buffalo. Over the years he has taught many undergraduate
and graduate information systems students. Since 1988 he has taught at
Rutgers where he served as a member of the Advisory Board for the
Teaching Excellence Center from 1992 to 2003. Dr. Kendall served as
Chair of several doctoral dissertations, as well as serving on many
doctoral committees. For his mentoring of minority doctoral students in
information systems, he was named to the inaugural Circle of Compadres
of the PhD Project, which was begun by the KPMG Foundation.
In 1991 Ken was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and a
Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, the same year he was named as
one of the top 60 most productive MIS researchers in the world. Dr.
Kendall is a past Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2, and he served as
Program Co-Chair for AMCIS 2009 in San Francisco and the Program Chair
for the 2004 Annual Meeting of DSI in Boston. Professor Kendall has
served as the Ecommerce Column Editor for Decision Line for the past 11
years, as a Guest Editor for two journals, and an Associate Editor or
Editorial Review Board member on several MIS journals.
Dr. Kendall recently co-authored a text, Systems Analysis and Design,
eighth edition, published by Prentice Hall. Earlier editions were
translated into Chinese, Indonesian, and Spanish, and also edited for
the Indian Subcontinent. The first Braille version of the
object-oriented chapter of the text appeared in 2009. Ken also edited
Emerging Information Technologies: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and
Infrastructure for Sage Publications.
Professor Kendall’s research focuses on studying push and pull
technologies, ecommerce strategies for nonprofit organizations (most
recently off-Broadway theatres), and developing new tools for systems
analysis and design. Along with his co-authors, Ken developed an
interactive Web-based game called HyperCase where students can solve
sophisticated systems analysis and design problems in a virtual
organization, which is accessible for free on his Web site
www.thekendalls.org.
In his spare time Ken earned a private pilot’s license, became a college
ice hockey goal judge, served as official nominator for the Drama League
Awards in Manhattan, and is serving as Chairman of the Board of EgoPo, a
nonprofit professional theatre in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Julie
E. Kendall, wrote new lyrics to the Rutgers Alma Mater that are sung
every year at commencement.