Alan R. Hevner
Prof. Alan R. Hevner, Ph.D. is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business at the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology. Dr. Hevner’s areas of research interest include information systems development, software engineering, distributed database systems, healthcare systems, and service-oriented computing. He has published over 200 research papers on these topics and has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Hevner received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. Alan R. Hevner is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Information Systems Research (INFORMS).
Knowledge-Design-Innovation (KDI) Research Program
As Senior Schöller Fellows, Alan R. Hevner and Shirley Gregor work on a collaborative project with the goal of integrating research streams in the areas of knowledge, design, and innovation (KDI). They are currently working on a unifying framework for investigating and managing innovation. Drawing on their widely-cited publications on design science research methods, they propose a new framework for understanding innovation, the Knowledge Innovation Matrix (KIM). This framework is based on the two dimensions of knowledge (solution) and application (problem) maturity. In an expansion of their earlier work, they plan an extensive literature review of processes, theories and outcomes that characterize innovation in each of the four KIM quadrants.
The overall aim of the KDI research program is to develop the Knowledge-Innovation Matrix (KIM) for use in managing innovation processes and outcomes and bridging boundaries between research disciplines and stakeholders in business, academia, and government. The next step envisaged for the research program is to develop a tool for managing innovation. Subsequent steps will investigate academic-industry collaboration in innovation and governance policies for assessing and encouraging innovation at global and national levels.