EQUITY 2007 Report

The goal of this conference is to set up a new research field to study IT value and its components, says co-chair Elliot Chikofsky, chief consultant of Engineering Management and Integration, an IT consultancy firm, in his opening statement. Looking at the high costs of IT made him wonder whether the research effort was maybe too late. Chikofsky predicts that concepts and methods need to be combined to discover how much is known about IT value and what elements are lacking. “This is a "casa blanca' conference to round up the usual suspects: who are the people doing the research in this area? ”