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Dr Michael Lane

Name :	Dr Michael Lane
Position :	Senior Lecturer (Information Systems)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Information Systems
Office :	T330
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1268
Extension :	1268
E-mail :
Qualifications :	ADipMC, BIT(Hons), PhD USQ

Professional Memberships

Association of Information Systems (AIS)http://www.aisnet.org
Australian Information Security Association http://www.aisa.org.au/

Research Interests

I have four main themes of research

ICT enabling Sustainability - Member of USQ Research Centre: Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development - http://www.usq.edu.au/acsbd and in particular Energy Informatics based on following equation = Energy + information < energy (developing research grant application and looking for potential PhD students interested in researching in this emerging field of Information Systems)
I am co-supervising a PhD Student Marhaini Noor MD who is working on Rural internet centres bridging digital divide in Malaysia

Managing IT Function in organisations in particular the future role of the CIO (with PhD Student Moyasser Alyas)

Information security - currently researching Information security awareness (PhD student Robert Poepjes), software vulnerability disclosures (with Masters Student Arjun KC), Trust and Privacy concerns in social networking sites (with Masters Student Sanjib Tiwari)

Business intelligence enabling evidence based decision making in organisations in particular visualisation of data to improve decision making and interpretation of information - looking for PhD students interested in researching in this area which I think fit nicely with Energy Informatics

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Research grants
Alam, K, Cotter, J, Hume, M, Lane, M and Yong, J Determining the Social and Policy Challenges of a Digital Divide: A Cross-sectional Analysis of Rural and Regional Australia, 2012, USQ CRN project with ANU and UNISA $546,775.

Farley, Dekeyser, S, Carter, B, Baig-Hafeez, A, Midley, W Lane, and M Doyle, J Mobile learning framework, USQ CRN project with ANU and UNISA $546,775.

Recent Research student completions
THE FIT OF MOBILE WORK SUPPORT FUNCTIONS WITH MOBILE SALES-FORCE WORKER TASKS, DBA dissertation, 2012 Markus Lembach (Principal supervisor Michael Lane)

Arjun KC Masters of Business Research Dissertation 2012 – Software vulnerability disclosures and its impact on the response time of vendor patching (Principal supervisor Michael Lane)

Sanjib Tiwari Masters of Business Research Dissertation - Trust and Privacy and Social networking sites 2012 (Associate supervisor Michael Lane)

Current research student supervisions
Robert Poepjes, PhD project - Assessing information security awareness in terms of importance and risk to information security controls: a multiple stakeholder perspective, expected to submit end of 2013

Marhaini Mohd Noor PhD project Assessing the impacts of rural internet centre programs on quality of life on rural communities in Malaysia expected to submit November 2012

Moyassar Alyas PhD project – The configuration of CIO roles determined by different stages of organisational life cycle expected to submit for examination November 2013

Sanjib Tiwari PhD Project Key factors facilitating and inhibiting the adoption of high speed broadband services in rural and regional Australia – USQ CRN Project 2 commenced in second half of 2012

Mehmet Ercan Research Masters - Sharing Patient EHRs in a distributed healthcare system, commenced in second half of 2012 (Associate supervisor)

Raj Sandu Research Masters Evaluating the sustainability of cloud computing services delivered by Indian SMEs, commenced in second half of 2012 (Associate supervisor)

Recent publications

Poepjes, R and Lane, M, 2012, An information security awareness capability model (ISACM), SECAU 2012 Congress, Perth, Western Australian accepted

Lane, M, 2012, Does the Android permission system provide adequate protection for information privacy risks associated with mobile apps?, SECAU 2012 Congress, Perth, Western Australian accepted *

Lane, M. S. and Shrestha, A. 2011, An empirical analysis of SNS users and their privacy and security awareness of risks associated with sharing SNS profiles (online identities), 11th International Conference of Electronic Business, Bangkok Thailand

Lembach, M. and Lane, M. S. 2011, The fit of mobile work support functionalities with pharmaceutical sales-force worker tasks, 11th International Conference of Electronic Business, Bangkok Thailand

Lane, M and Lum WH 2010 Examining client perceptions of partnership quality and the relationships between its dimensions in an IT outsourcing relationship, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 17 No. 1.

Co-Editor with Professor Lutz Kolbe and Professor Ruediger Zarnekow - Special Issue: Green IT/IS (Sustainable Computing) Australasian Journal of Information Systems Vol. 17 No. 1 http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/issue/view/35

Stagg, A and Lane, M 2010 Supporting information literacy skills development and instruction in first-year Business students with Clickers, Journal of Information Technology Education, Vol 10, Informing Science Institute, Santa Rosa CA USA.

D'Costa M and Lane, M 2010 The adoption of single sign-on and multifactor authentication in organisations – a critical evaluation using the TOE framework, Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Vol 7, Informing Science Institute, Santa Rosa CA USA.

Hodgson, L and Lane, M 2010 The role of the CIO in achieving superior organisational performance, Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Tech

Most notable :

Van der Vyver, G. Lane, M. S. and Koronios, 2010, A. Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting the Adoption of Agile Methods in the Organisation, Special Edition of the Journal of Management Information Systems: Managing Information Systems Development: Opportunities and Challenges in the Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS) Monograph Series

Lane, M and Lum WH 2010 Examining client perceptions of partnership quality and the relationships between its dimensions in an IT outsourcing relationship, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 17 No. 1.

Lane, M. S. Van der Vyver, G. Delpachitra, S. and Howard, S. 2004, An Electronic Commerce Initiative in Regional Sri Lanka: The Vision for the Central Province Electronic Commerce Portal, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Vol. 16, No. 1

Van der Vyver, G. and Lane, M. S. 2003, Using a Team-based Approach in an IS Course: An Empirical Study, Journal of Information Technology in Education, 2003, Best papers category from InSite 2003, vol. 2.

Lane, M. S. and Koronios, A., 2001 A balanced approach to capturing user requirements in business-to-consumer web information systems, Special issue of Australian Journal of Information Systems, Best papers from 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Vol. 9 No. 1 pp. 61-69.

Lane, M. S. and Cavaye, A. L. M., 2000 The Integration of Web and Database marketing: An Australian Study of Direct Marketing Firms, Special edition of Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 168-184

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

Currently teaching in the Faculty of Business and Law Undergraduate, MBA, Masters Programs
CIS8008 Business Intelligence

CIS2005 Principles of Information Security

CIS8018 Information Security Management

CIS8100 Digital Enterprise

CIS8009 Management Issues in Telecommunications

CIS8004 Business Systems Planning and Implementation

BUS8402 Research Methods 2 Multivariate Analysis and Advanced Qualitative Analysis

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 10 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Acting Associate Dean Learning and Teaching - Faculty of Business and Law - August 2011 to June 2012
Chair of School of Information Systems Learning and Teaching Committee 2007 - July 2011