Professor Sid Huff awarded status of Emeritus Professor
Professor Sid Huff has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor. Sid joined Victoria as Professor in Information Systems in 2001. He was immediately appointed as the Ericsson Professor of Information Systems, a chair he occupied till 2004.
Professor Sid Huff has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor. Sid joined Victoria as Professor in Information Systems in 2001. He was immediately appointed as the Ericsson Professor of Information Systems, a chair he occupied till 2004. From 2002 to mid-2010 Sid was Head of School of the School of Information Management (SIM – initially SCIM), during which time he was instrumental in establishing the Bachelor of Information Technology, with Computer Science; and then its successor, the Bachelor of Business Information Systems, which resided entirely under SIM.
Always a dedicated and very highly regarded teacher, Sid supervised 13 PhDs to completion while at SIM, and 10 more before that. Sid’s own research focuses on ways in which information technology and systems can provide organizations with strategic and competitive advantages. In particular, he is interested in the role of the CIO and behaviour of senior executives in bringing about such advantages.
Apart from his performance in VUW, Sid maintained his international profile. Most notably he was a founding member of the Association of Information Systems in 1996, the preeminent information systems association worldwide. In 2002 he was a founding member of ISAHI – IS Academic Heads International. This group of heads of IS units in universities worldwide addresses issues of interest and concern to IS units internationally. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS), and in 2008 he became a founding member of Professors and Heads of Information Systems in New Zealand (PHIS–NZ), a similar organization to ACPHIS. PHIS-NZ promotes IS research and education in New Zealand and provides an expert perspective on matters of national and international importance that impact the IS academic discipline in New Zealand.
In addition, he was appointed as Associate Editor of Management Information Systems Quarterly, argued by many to be the premier IS journal; Senior Editor of the Journal of Information Technology, he was founding Senior Editor of the Journal of Information Technology – Teaching Cases, Associate Editor of the Pacific-Asia Journal of Information Systems, and Senior Editor Information Systems Management.
The pinnacle of Sid’s international achievements, however, was his lifetime achievement award as a Fellow of the AIS in 2009. “The AIS Fellow award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Information Systems discipline in terms of research, teaching and service. An AIS Fellow is expected to be a role model and an inspiration to colleagues and students within the discipline.”
By any measure, Sid is an outstanding academic, one that VUW is proud to have as an Emeritus Professor.