Faculty, Research & Staff
Diane Strong
Associate Professor
Faculty Listing
Office: Washburn Shops, 205
Phone: +1-508-831-5573
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
dstrong@wpi.edu
Educational Background
- B.S., University of South Dakota, 1974
- M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1978
- M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1983
- Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1988
Research & Teaching Interests
Business databases, Data quality, Information quality, Enterprise systems, Electronic health record systems
IQP Advising Interests
Information technology use in health care; information technology & organizational behaviors; impact of information technology; assessment of data and information quality; appropriate uses of information technologies; computers & education; introducing new teaching materials; education & technological literacy
Research
Her overall research interests are focused on advanced information technologies, such as enterprise systems and electronic health record systems, and their use and effects in organizations. Her research examines how such systems contribute to the structuring of work and the need for exception handling and work arounds as organizations seek to fit packaged systems to the needs of organizational tasks and processes. Her research interests also include MIS quality issues, with primary focus on data and information quality.
Research Grants
- 7/00-6/01, WPI Research Development Council. “Developing a Process Model of IT-Driven Second-Order Change: Three Case Studies of ERP Implementation in a Large Engineering Organization”, D. M. Strong, PI, M. B. Elmes, Co-PI, $5,860.
- 7/01-6/05, National Science Foundation. “The Relationship of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation to Organizational Changes in Control, Task Structure, and Workarounds”, D. M. Strong, PI, M. B. Elmes and O. Volkoff, Co-PIs, Innovation and Organizational Change Program, SES-0114954, $299,987.
- 5/02-7/03, WPI Educational Development Council. “Management Education in the Information Age”, D. M. Strong, PI, S. A. Johnson and J. J. Mistry, Co-PIs, $12,700.
- 5/05-4/09, National Science Foundation. “CCLI-EMD: Integrating Enterprise Decision-Making Modules into Undergraduate Industrial Engineering and Management Curricula”, D. M. Strong, PI, S. A. Johnson and J. J. Mistry, Co-PIs, DUE-0442394, $74,742.
- 7/06-5/07, WPI Research Development Council. “Applying Engineering and Information Technology Tools to Improve Health Care Delivery Processes”, D. M. Strong, PI, Isa Bar-on and S. A. Johnson, Co-PIs, Faculty Advancement in Research (FAR) program, $23,892.
- 4/08-3/11, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “The Organizational Effect of Implementing Inter-organizational Electronic Health Information Systems”, O. Volkoff, PI, D. M. Strong, Collaborator, $54,196 (Canadian).
Recent Publications
Years of Service at WPI
- Educational Development Council, 1998-2001, Chair, 1999-2001
- New Faculty Mentor, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
- Search Committee, Mathematical Sciences Department Head, 2002
- Committee on Academic Operations (CAO), 2001-2003, Chair, B and D terms 2002-2003
- Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2002-2003
- Committee on Graduate Studies and Research (CGSR), 2004-2007
- Presidential Commission C: Research and Graduate Education, 2005-2007
- Community Council, 2006-2008
- Search Committee, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Spring 2007
- Research Development Council, 2007-
Professional Experience & Activities
- Program Committee, Conference on Information Quality, October 20-22, 2000, Cambridge, MA.
- Program Co-Chair, AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 3-5 2001, Boston, MA.
- Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2001, New Orleans, LA.
- AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, Executive Committee, 2000-2004.
- Journal of Database Management (JDM), Editorial Review Board, 2002-
- Counselor, MIS Camp (Pre-AMCIS Junior Faculty Consortium), August 5, 2004
- Program Committee, International Conference on Information Quality, November 5-7, 2004, Cambridge, MA.
- Mini-Track Co-Chair, Enterprise Systems Organizational Issues, Sponsored by SIGEntSys, AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, 2005, Omaha, NE.
- Program Committee, International Conference on Information Quality, November 4-6, 2005, Cambridge, MA.
- Associate Editor, Human-Computer Interaction Track, International Conference on Information Systems, December 11-14, 2005, Las Vegas, NV.
- Program Committee and Best Paper Selection Committee, International Conference on Information Quality, November 10-12, 2006, Cambridge, MA.
- Associate Editor, Breakthrough Ideas in Information Technology Track, International Conference on Information Systems, December 10-13, 2006, Milwaukee, WI.
- Workshop Advising Committee, Workshop on Enterprise Systems Research in MIS, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems, December 10, 2006, Milwaukee, WI.
- Program Committee, Australasian Conference on Information Quality, August 23-24, 2007, Adelaide, Australia.
- Program Committee and Best Paper Selection Committee, International Conference on Information Quality, November 9-11, 2007, Cambridge, MA.
- Associate Editor, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, 2007-
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