Frank Land

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For the professor of mathematics, see Frank William Land. For the founder of the Order of DeMolay, see Frank S. Land.

Frank Land
Sydney University, Bond University, Curtin University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Doctoral studentsRobert D. Galliers, T.H. Tse

Fred Frank Land

Operations Research
.

Biography

Land is an

LEO I with his colleague Mary Coombs.[3]

In 1967, Land was selected for a newly established post in what later became the Department of Information Systems at LSE. Here he became involved with the development and definition of the subject and its curriculum. He chaired working parties for the British Computer Society, the National Computing Centre, and the Council for National Academic Awards concerned with curriculum development. He worked with an international group to establish the International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) curriculum for information systems designers. At the LSE he set up the ADMIS (Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems) Masters course and developed a Ph.D. program.

In 1982, Land was appointed as the UK's first professor of Information Systems. In 1986 he moved to the

Sydney University, Bond University, Curtin University, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
(IIMA).

He has been awarded an honorary doctorate in science and the

House of Commons Select committees
examining IT in the UK.

Land retired from full-time academic work in 1992 and is currently Visiting Professor of Information Management at the LSE and at

Leeds Metropolitan University.[4]

In 2003, Land was jointly selected for the AIS LEO Award with

Information Systems.[5]

Land was appointed

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the information systems industry.[6]

Personal life

His wife was the LSE operational research emeritus professor Ailsa Land (1927–2021).[7] They married in 1953 and had three children, Frances, Richard and Margi, during Ailsa's PhD studies. Following their retirement the couple moved to Devon in 2000.[8]

Selected publications

Books

  • Farbey, Barbara, Frank Land, and David Targett. How to assess your IT investment: a study of methods and practice. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993.
  • Avgerou, Chrisanthi, Claudio Ciborra, and Frank Land, eds. The social study of information and communication technology: Innovation, actors, and contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Articles, a selection

  • Land, Frank, and Rudy Hirschheim. "Participative systems design: rationale, tools and techniques." Journal of Applied Systems Analysis 10.10 (1983): 15–18.
  • Galliers, Robert D., and Frank F. Land. "Viewpoint: choosing appropriate information systems research methodologies." Communications of the ACM 30.11 (1987): 901–902.
  • Farbey, Barbara, Frank Land, and David Targett. "Evaluating investments in IT." Journal of information technology 7.2 (1992): 109–122.
  • Farbey, Barbara, Frank Land, and David Targett. "A taxonomy of information systems applications: The benefits ladder[permanent dead link]." European journal of information systems 4.1 (1995): 41–50.
  • Farbey, Barbara, Frank Land, and David Targett. "Moving IS evaluation forward: learning themes and research issues." The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 8.2 (1999): 189–207.

References

  1. ^ "Identical twins to mark 82nd birthday with 12,000ft skydive". MyLondon. Reach plc. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Frank Land Interviewed by Thomas Lean" (PDF). National Life Stories an Oral History of British Science. British Library Sounds. May–June 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Frank Land". www.olduffs.org. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Frank Land". Association for Information Systems. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  5. ^ "AIS LEO Awards". Association for Information Systems. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  6. ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B13.
  7. London School of Economics and Political Science
    . Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Ailsa Land obituary". The Guardian. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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