Jeanne Wenzel Ross (born ca. 1952) is an American

organizational theorist An organization or organisation ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a par ...

and principal research scientist at

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), specializes in

Enterprise Architecture Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business function concerned with the structures and behaviours of a business, especially business roles and processes that create and use business data. The international definition according to the Federation of ...

, ICT and

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

. She is known for her work on

IT governance Information technology (IT) governance is a subset discipline of corporate governance, focused on information technology (IT) and its performance and risk management. The interest in IT governance is due to the ongoing need within organizations ...

, and

Enterprise architecture Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business function concerned with the structures and behaviours of a business, especially business roles and processes that create and use business data. The international definition according to the Federation of ...

Biography

Ross received her BA from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

in 1974, her MBA from the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

in 1977, and her PhD in

Management Information Systems A management information system (MIS) is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization. The study of the management information systems involves peo ...

from the

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee) is a Public university, public Urban university, urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropo ...

in 1987Jeanne Ross
at Sloan, 2013 with the thesis, entitled "Management information systems department control over end-user computing in marketing departments" under supervision of Kate M. Kaiser. After her graduation in 1978 Ross started her academic career as assistant professor at St. Norbert College. From 1989 to 1993 she was assistant professor at

Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a Private university, private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1865, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now h ...

, and then she joined the

Boston University School of Management The Questrom School of Business (BU Questrom or Questrom) is the business school of Boston University, a private research university based in Boston. Founded in 1913 and formerly known as the College of Business Administration (CBA), then School o ...

. In the early 1990s she wrote her first working papers with Janis L. Gogan. In 1993 she moved to the

, where she became principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). She served as the Center's director from 2008-2016. In June 2020 she retired from MIT CISR.About Jeanne
at ''cisr.mit.edu'', 2020. Accessed 2022.12.28 In 2001 Ross was founding editor of ''

MIS Quarterly Executive ''MIS Quarterly Executive'' is a quarterly journal covering the management of information systems. The journal was founded in 2002. Its purpose is to encourage practice-based research in the IS field and to disseminate the results of that research ...

,'' and she was Editor-in-Chief for some time. Ross' research is focused on "how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms."

Selected publications

Weill, Peter Peter Weill (born c. 1955) is an Australian computer scientist and organizational theorist, Professor of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chairman of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). ...

, and Jeanne W. Ross. ''IT governance: How top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results.'' Harvard Business Press, 2004. * Ross, Jeanne W., Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson. ''Enterprise architecture as strategy: Creating a foundation for business execution.'' Harvard Business Press, 2006. * Ross, Jeanne W.,

Cynthia Mathis Beath Cynthia Mathis Beath (born 1944) is an American economist and professor emerita at the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business.

, and Martin Mocker. "Designed for Digital: How to Architect Your Business for Sustained Success." MIT Press, 2019. Articles, a selection: * Rockart, John F., Michael J. Earl, and Jeanne W. Ross. "Eight imperatives for the new IT organization." ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 43-55. * Ross, Jeanne W.,

, and Dale L. Goodhue.
Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets
" ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 31-42. * Ross, Jeanne W., and Michael R. Vitale.
The ERP revolution: surviving vs. thriving
" ''Information systems frontiers'' 2.2 (2000): 233-241. * Robey, Daniel, Jeanne W. Ross, and Marie-Claude Boudreau.
Learning to implement enterprise systems: an exploratory study of the dialectics of change
" ''Journal of Management Information Systems'' 19.1 (2002): 17-46. * Levina, Natalia, and Jeanne W. Ross.
From the vendor's perspective: exploring the value proposition in information technology outsourcing
" ''MIS Quarterly'' (2003): 331-364.

References

External links

Jeanne Ross bio
MIT Sloan Faculty, 2014 (from ''archive.org'')
Jeanne Ross of MIT CISR on Enterprise Architecture
at youtube.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Jeanne W. 1950s births Living people American business theorists American computer scientists Enterprise modelling experts Information systems researchers University of Illinois alumni Wharton School alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni St. Norbert College faculty Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty Boston University faculty MIT Sloan School of Management faculty American women computer scientists American women academics 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)