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The place of Business Information Systems (BIS) as a specific discipline within the Faculty reflects the strategic influence of business information systems in shaping the framework, structures, processes and opportunities of contemporary business and the commitment of the Faculty to being a significant centre of research and teaching in the field. The first appointments were made to BIS in 2002 and, due to high levels of student demand the group now has 12 full-time academic positions.

The integration of the discipline within the broader grouping of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Business Law underpins the interdisciplinary character of our approach and the interdependence of business information systems, financial reporting, decision support systems and the regulatory/legal context of business.

The overall imperative of the BIS discipline is business innovation through the application of information technology to business processes. Our research and teaching is centred on the analysis and understanding of the entirety of an organisation's strategies, information management, decision-making and business processes. From this foundation it seeks to be an agent of subsequent innovation and strategic business leadership through the application of information technologies. Within this context, the Business Information Systems discipline has a strong research agenda with a commitment to practice-based, industry-relevant inquiry, with particular strengths in:

  • information systems strategy;
  • decision support and business intelligence systems;
  • information policy and knowledge management;
  • IS assurance and control;
  • management of enterprise systems and business processes.

Staff in the discipline have been successful with the award of large research grants from the Australian Research Council, including:

  • ARC Discovery - Developing and Managing Sustainable Technology-Enabled Innovation Capabilities: An Information Systems Approach (S. Elliot);
  • ARC Discovery - Potential applications of emerging disruptive technologies in the Financial Services sector (S. Elliot);
  • ARC Linkage - Supply chain management and E-procurement (S. Williams and S. Elliot);
  • ARC Linkage - New Frontiers: Assessing the Impact of Electronic Business on Australia’s Wholesale Financial Markets (S. Elliot and S. Williams).

In addition, staff in the BIS discipline are engaged in collaborative projects in business process management, decision support systems, information management and innovation management with have strong international collaborations with researchers in Asia, Europe and North America. The discipline also hosts two research groups: