Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change

  Kieran Conboy

B.Comm.   M.B.S.   A.C.M.A   Ph.D.   Lecturer in Information Systems
Email:	Kieran.Conboy nuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 492913
Fax:	353 (0)91 494565
Office Location:	Room 378 Top Floor, Cairnes Building

Biography

Kieran Conboy is a lecturer in information systems at the National University of Ireland Galway. His research focuses on agile systems development approaches as well as agility across other disciplines. Kieran has attracted over €1.4m in direct funding, is now leading a €4m proposal on lean information systems, and has been involved in project consortia attracting over €30m value. Sources of direct funding in the past include the EU Commission, Science Foundation Ireland, the Fulbright Commission, Enterprise Ireland, and IRCSET along with an additional €1m in industry contribution. Kieran is leading a multidisciplinary research cluster in NUI Galway on Enterprise Agility involving a team of 18 academic staff, 5 postdoctoral researchers and 12 PhDs.

Kieran is currently involved in numerous national and international projects in this area, and has worked or is working with many companies on their agile initiatives including Intel, Microsoft, Accenture, HP, and Fidelity Investments. In association with ITAG, Kieran established the Agile Forum, a monthly research and industry seminar series which attracts between 40 and 60 companies per event. Kieran has held chairing roles of international conferences including the European Conference in Information Systems (Galway 2008) the XP and Agile Development Conference (Limerick 2008, Sardinia 2009, Trondheim, 2010). His research has been published in various leading journals and conferences such as Information Systems Research, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Software Technology, the International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference in Information Systems (ECIS), IFIP 8.6 and the XP200n conference series. He is also associate editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, and has been a guest editor on special issues of top journals on the topics such as qualitative IS research and agility.

Kieran is currently the Head of Research for the School of Business & Economics. Kieran’s lecturing activties focus primarily on the areas of IS Innovation, IS Project Management, IS Strategy and IS Research Methods to undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA audiences. Prior to joining NUI Galway, Kieran was a management consultant with Accenture, where he worked on a variety of projects across Europe and the US.

Teaching Areas

• Project Management
• Electronic Commerce Strategy
• Systems Analysis & Design

Research Interests

• Agility, Flexibility and Leanness in Information Systems
• The Social Nature of Information Systems
• Management Accounting and Performance Evaluation in Information Systems Development

Recent Publications

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