Paul Gray, Visiting Professor at The Paul Merage School of Business, long-time CRITO faculty associate and Professor Emeritus of Information Science, Claremont Graduate University, was awarded first place for the 2005 Society for Information Management (SIM) Prize Paper competition for Managing Online in Perpetual Perfect Storms: Insights from IndyMac Bank. The award was presented at the annual SIM meeting in Boston on September 12, 2005. The paper examines how IndyMac Bank successfully managed to remain competitive in an industry characterized by constant change through its innovative and pervasive use of IT.

Authored by Erik Krogh, First Vice President and Divisional CIO, IndyMac Bank, Omar El Sawy, Professor of Information Systems & Director of Research, Center for Telecom Management at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and Paul Gray, the paper will be published in MISQ Executive, which reaches an audience of Chief Information Officers both here and abroad. Read the paper.

Specializing in information systems, particularly decision support systems, knowledge management, data warehousing and electronic publishing, Dr. Gray is the author of over 130 journal articles and 13 academic texts. This most recent award follows accolades for an earlier paper, also authored by Paul Gray and Omar El Sawy with Bob Houghton of Western Digital. The paper, Vigilant Information Systems for Managing Enterprises in Dynamic Supply Chains: Real-Time Dashboards at Western Digital, was identified in a May 2005 poll of 42 members of the editorial board of MIS Quarterly Executive as one of the exemplary “MISQE Top 10” articles for providing insight and deeper understanding for both CIO practitioners and researchers in the field.


(CRITO Research Spotlight, October 2005)

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