BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Raymond Papp is an associate professor in the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa, USA. Dr. Papp completed his doctorate in Information Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests include Strategic Alignment, IT for Competitive Advantage, Distance Learning, and Pedagogical Issues in IT. His recent book Strategic Information Technology: Opportunities for Competitive Advantage (Idea Group Publishing, 2001) highlights the use of information systems to achieve competitive advantage and contains numerous cases on strategic information systems. He has recently published in Annals of Cases on Information Technology, Communications of the AIS and Industrial Management and Data Systems as well as presented at numerous national and international conferences.