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Dr Michael Lane


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


Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/lanem/
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Professional Memberships
Association of Information Systems (AIS)http://www.aisnet.org
Australian Information Security Association http://www.aisa.org.au/

Research Interests
I have three main themes of research

Sustainability enabled through ICT - Member of Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development

Mobile computing transforming individuals organisations and society

Information security - strategy and risk management

Recent Research Outcomes
Three most recent :
Lane, M. S. Howard, A. and Howard, S. 2009 The energy inefficiency of office computing and potential emerging technology solutions, Insite Conference, Macon State College, Georgia, USA, 12-15th June

Van der Vyver, G. Lane, M. S. and Koronios, 2009, 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, accepted

Lane, M. S. and Koronios, 2007, A. Critical Competencies required for the role of the modern CIO, 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba, Australia, 5-7th December

Lane, M. S. and Koronios, 2007, A. Determining the key technology and management priorities for CIOs deemed to be problematic and suffering from performance gaps, International Conference of ICT Innovation and Application, Zhuhai, China, 15-17th November

Lane, M.S. and Van der Vyver, 2006, G. Does IT Offshoring make good business sense? Proceed with caution, 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 6-9th July 2006

Van der Vyver, G. and Lane, M. S. 2006, ARE UNIVERSITIES TO BLAME FOR THE IT CAREERS CRISIS?, InSite 2006 Conference, Salford Greater Manchester, England, June 25-28

Lane, M. S. and Basnet, P. 2005, The Impact of Informal Control on Effectiveness of Core Developers in Open Source Projects, 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Sydney, Australia, December 1–3

Van der Vyver, G. L. Lane, M. S. and Hajiyev, E. 2005, IT Outsourcing Success: Revisiting the Measurement of a Multidimensional Construct: An Australian Perspective, 9th Pacific Asian Conference on Information Systems, July 7-11,

Lane, M. S. and Van der Vyver, G. L. 2005, A Review of Current IT Outsourcing Trends: An Australian Study, 9th Pacific Asian Conference on Information Systems, July 7-11

Lane, M. S. Van Der Vyver G. and Basnet, P. 2004, The Impact of Affective Trust and Cognitive Trust on the Effectiveness of Virtual Communities in Free/Open Source Projects, 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Hobart, Australia, 1st – 3rd December .

Lane, M. S. Van Der Vyver G. Basnet, P. and Howard, S. 2004, The Impact of Cognitive and Affective Trust on the Effectiveness of Open Source projects: Interpretative insights from the open source software development community at SourceForge.net, 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Hobart, Australia, 1st – 3rd December

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
Most notable :
Van der Vyver, G. Lane, M. S. and Koronios, 2009, 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, accepted

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 Undergraduate, MBA, Masters Programs

CIS8100 Global Information Systems Strategy

CIS8008 Business Intelligence Systems

CIS8009 Management Issues in Telecommunications

CIS8004 Business Systems Planning and Implementation

CIS8018 Information Security Management

BUS8402 Research Methods 2 Multivariate Analysis and Advanced Qualitative Analysis

CIS2005 Principles of Information Security

Teaching Experience
Tertiary : 10 years

Administrative Responsibilities
Chair of School of Information Systems Learning and Teaching Enhancement Committee