Kalle Lyytinen

Kalle Lyytinen, PhD, is the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design; chair and professor, design and innovation; and faculty director, doctor of management program. Lyytinen’s research helps define how rapidly changing digital innovations shape organizations. His work helps organizations know how to identify, absorb, manage, implement and be transformed by digital innovations. His recent projects have focused on engineering practices, telecommunications and software development organizations. Lyytinen studies the adoption of new technologies, new forms of collaboration, and new ways to determine system requirements.

Lyytinen joined the Weatherhead School of Management faculty in 2001. Since then his teaching interests have focused on digital innovation theory, new business venturing, design theory and methods, research methods and theory.

Lyytinen has an extensive list of over 300 publications in numerous prestigious journals including Information Systems; Management Information Systems Quarterly; and Organization Science and leading conferences. He is currently among the top five scholars in the information system field by citations (H-index 71). He has presented his work extensively in the U.S. and worked globally at academic institutions including University of Cape Town, ZA; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; City University of Hong Kong, CPR; Auckland University School of Business, New Zealand; Umea University, Sweden; Aalto University, Finland; and Oslo University, Norway.

Professionally, Lyytinen has served as vice president for the Association for Information Systems(AIS), senior editor for Information Systems Research and editor-in-chief for the Journal of the association for Information Systems. He received an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School in 2016 and from Umea University in 2008. Lyytinen also received the LEO Award from AIS in 2013 and he has numerous Best Paper Awards from AIS (ICIS), HICSS and AoM (OCIS). Lyytinen received his PhD from the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Teaching Interests

• Digital innovation theory
• New business venturing
• Design theory and methods
• Research methods and theory
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Research Interests

• Systems design methods and design methodologies: IS research strategies and their selection: analysis of appropriate research methods for different research problems and their evaluation using philosophy of science.
• IS innovation/implementation and failures: organizational theories to frame and describe information system and IT service innovation, risks, failures and their causes.
• Computer Aided Systems Engineering Environments CASE: design, development and implementation of CASE environments and especially management,
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work: organizational memory, meeting support,
• Diffusion and Innovation Theory: radical IS innovation, disruptive innovations, Digitally enabled radical innovation and transformation, diffusion of complex networked technologies and evolution of the technology infrastructures; standardization;
• Ubiquitous Computing: systems and architectures, organizational and industry level impacts, digitalization of design processes

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished University Professor 2017 Case Western Reserve University
• Honorary Doctorate 2017 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
• Enduring Research Impact Award 2016 Weatherhead School of Management
• Distinguished Research Award 2016 Case Western Reserve University
• Honorary Doctorate 2016 Copenhagen Business School
• LEO Award 2013 Association for Information Systems
• Best Paper Award 2013 OCIS
• Best Published Paper in 2012 2013 OCIS
• Best Paper Award 2011 32nd ICIS
• IS Senior Scholar Best Paper Award 2010 AIS Senior Scholar Consortium
• Dr. Honoris causa 2008 Umea University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sweden
• OCIS Best Paper Award 2007 2008 OCIS/AoM
• External Appointments
• Chairperson, Executive DBA Council, Cleveland, OH, 2015 - 2017
• Editor, Associate Editor, Organization Science, 2014 - Present
• Editor in Chief, Engaged Management Review, Cleveland, OH, 2014 - 2019
• Editor, Senior Editor, Information and Organization, 2010 - 2018
• Officer, Vice President, Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010 - 2012
• Head, Doctoral Program, 2009
• Committee Chair, Faculty Senate Council of Information Resources, 2008 - Present
• Chairperson, Faculty Senate Committee on Communication and Information Technology, 2008 - 2011
• Department Academic Assessor, London School of Economics, London, UK, 2008 - 2014
• Editor, Senior Editor, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005 - 2010