Welcome to the home page for Kenneth E. Kendall. Ken is a Distinguished Professor of Management at Rutgers University, School of Business-Camden, in New Jersey, USA. Ken researches and teaches in the areas of ecommerce, emerging technologies, systems analysis and design, and project management for information technology. Ken is currently the President of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). One of Ken's key achievements was that he helped to found the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which now attracts more than a thousand information systems researchers to its conference annually. Another achievement was being named as a Fellow for the Decision Sciences Institute.

Research

Professor Kendall has published over 85 research articles, a leading textbook, Systems Analysis and Design, (seventh edition, 2008); Project Planning and Requirements Analysis for IT Systems Development, (second edition, 2002) and two edited research volumes on emerging information technologies and systems development.  He has published numerous times in journals such as MIS Quarterly (2 papers), Management Science (3 papers), Decision Sciences (3 papers), and Operations Research. He has worked with more than 39 co-authors over the course of his career. Ken's Systems Analysis and Design text has recently been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Indonesian.

To view the covers of Ken's textbooks, scholarly books, and edited books, click on cover art.

In 1995, Dr. Kendall was awarded the Silver Core by IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) and in 2001 he became a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Insti­tute. Additionally, he was listed as one of the top 60 researchers in MIS in an article published in Socio Economic Planning Sciences (Vol. 25, No. 3, 1991). This study counted the number of times an author published in the top MIS journals in the 1980s.

From the beginning of his career, Ken decided that he wanted to work with organizations that benefit society. Consequently, he worked with the American Red Cross and other blood centers throughout the world to help ensure a safe and plentiful supply of blood. He has helped the Nebraska State Patrol, worked with educational institutions, and a variety of non-profit groups including theatres and religious organizations in order to create a better community. He served for three years as chair of IFIP WG 8.2 an organization that encourages research on the impacts of information systems on organizations and society.

Over the last decade, Dr. Kendall’s research has turned towards ecommerce. In particular, Ken has been researching Web-based push and pull technologies. An article on “Information Delivery Systems: An Exploration of Web Push and Pull Technologies,” has appeared in Communications of AIS. Ken is also active in researching agile systems development as part of his ongoing interest in developing new methods for systems analysis and design.

Teaching

In addition to conducting basic and applied research, Ken has made contributions to the advancement of pedagogy. Some of his pedagogical research, “An Empirical Compari­son of a Hypertext-based Systems Analysis Case with Conventional Cases and Role Playing,” appeared in The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Ken is a co-creator of the instructional software tool, HyperCase^®, an interactive, adventure game used to train systems analysts.

Ken’s recent teaching portfolio includes two ecommerce courses; one is entitled “Emerging Information Technologies” and the other is called “Ecommerce Project Management.” Both are offered on the graduate and undergraduate level. Ken enjoys introducing state-of-the-art software packages in class, and he is a beta tester for many new ecommerce products.

Ken received a Decision Sciences Institute Innovative Teaching Award, Honorable Mention in 1992. Ken has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Teaching Excellence Center, Rutgers University-Camden, 1992 to 2003.

Mentoring Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty

Ken has also supervised 8 doctoral dissertations in MIS and is currently active on doctoral committees. Ken has taken an energetic role in mentoring doctoral students. In 2003, he served as co-coordinator for the Decision Sciences Institute Doctoral Student Consortium in Washington, D.C. He has been a coordinator and mentor, for the Decision Sciences Institute Doctoral Student Consortium, Workshop on Formulating a Strategic Research Plan nine times since 1995.

He has participated with minority students and faculty in the Ph.D. Project Information Systems Doctoral Students Association Conference, begun by the KPMG Foundation, as a presenter and mentor for the last several years. In 2001 he was privileged to be named to the Ph.D. Project’s Circle of Compadres. Ken served as a Co-Director of the MIS Camp for New MIS Faculty Development, Americas Conference on Information Systems for three years and once as Co-Director of the ICIS Junior Faculty Consortium.

At Rutgers University, he has twice presented an original workshop for faculty “Getting Work Published,” in the Helping Faculty to Succeed Series at the Teaching Excellence Center.

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Service

Ken is one of the founders of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Ken is the President of DSI and served as a Vice President for DSI as well. Dr. Kendall is the past Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2. He served for a dozen years as an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences and also served as an AE for Information Resources Management Journal. He is currently on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Information Systems and the Review Board of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Ken is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the innovative online journal, JITTA. Ken is currently the ecommerce editor for a column in Decision Line. He is also an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, and serves as an Editorial Review Board Member for the Journal of IT for Development. Ken served as a functional Editor for MIS for the journal Interfaces.

Ken has been the coordinator for the MIS area  and has chaired the committee to establish a new curriculum for graduate and undergraduate students in ecommerce. These programs were approved and student admissions began in April 2000. Ken is the faculty advisor for the student ecommerce and information technology society.

Professional Societies
 

Ken has been very active in the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and is currently serving as President of DSI. He served as Program Chair for the 35th Annual Meeting in Boston in 2004, which was a successful event with over 18 tracks including over 400 research presentations; miniconferences, workshops; keynote speakers and doctoral student and new faculty consortia. The meeting attracted about 1,450 researchers  from all over the world. Ken also served as a Vice President for DSI. Ken was the MIS Track Co-Chair for the International Decision Sciences Institute Meeting  held in Athens, Greece in July of 1999 as well as the MIS Track Chair for the DSI Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 1999. Ken served as the Track Co-Chair for the Systems Development Track of the 26th meeting of ICIS held in 2005 in Las Vegas. One of his most treasured activities for AIS was to serve as Captain of the East Team for the First IS Trivia Bowl held during AIS in Indianapolis in 1997. Ken is serving as the Program Co-Chair for AMCIS 2009 in San Francisco. His key memberships in professional societies include:

Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)

Association for Information Systems (AIS)

International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) WG 8.2

Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI)

Books

Systems Analysis and Design, with Julie E. Kendall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, first edition, 1988, second edition, 1992, third edition, 1995, fourth edition, 1999, fifth edition, 2002, 914 pages, sixth edition, 2005,726 pages, seventh edition, 2008, 774 pages.

Project Planning and Requirements Analysis for IT Systems Development, 2^nd edition with J. E. Kendall, S. L. Pfleeger, L. Connelly, J. W. Cortada, H. S. Fogler, S. B. LeBlanc, K. R. Woolever and H. M. Loeb, MA: Pearson, 2002, 389 pages.

Needs Assessment and Project Planning with J. E. Kendall, S. L. Pfleeger, J. W. Cortada, H. S. Fogler, S. B. LeBlanc, K. R. Woolever and H. M. Loeb, MA: Pearson, 2000, 411 pages.

Emerging Information Technologies: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure, edited by K. E. Kendall, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999.

The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies on Information Systems Development, co-edited with Kalle Lyytinen and Janice I. DeGross, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1992, 399 pages.

 Análisis Y Diseño De Sistemas, sexta edición, México City: México, Pearson Education, 2005 (Systems Analysis and Design translated by Antonio Núñez Ramos with     Macedonio  Alanís, Humberto Cárdenas, and María Angélica Pérez de Ovalles), 726 pages.

Análisis Y Diseño De Sistemas, tercera edición, México City: México, Pearson Education, 1997 (Systems Analysis and Design translated by Ing. Sergio María Ruiz Faudon and Raymond Hugo Rangel Guitiėrrez), 913 pages.

Analisis dan Perancangan Sistem, Jilid 1, edisi kelima, Jakarta, Indonesia, Pearson Education Asia, 2002 (Systems Analysis and Design translated by Thamir Abdul Hafedh  Al-Hamdany), 529 pages.

Personal Interests

Ken and his co-author (and wife) Julie, are currently examining the strategic uses of Web presence and ecommerce for off-Broadway theatres and other nonprofit organizations in the service sector. They served as official nominators for the Drama League in New York City, and they are board members of EgoPo Theatre Company of Philadelphia. Ken maintains an active interest in opera, theatre, and arts management. Ken and Julie Kendall have published official new lyrics to the Rutgers Alma Mater, "On the Banks."

Listen to my reaction to new computer applications.

My co-author (and wife) Julie and I celebrating our 4th edition.	My wife, Julie, and I are relaxing in Hawaii.