John F. Rockart

John F. Rockart is a Senior Lecturer of Information Technology at the Sloan School of Management, MIT where he has taught and conducted research on the management and use of computer-based information systems since 1966. He was the director of the Center for Information Systems Research until June of 2000. He is best known for the development of the critical success factors (CSF) method for information and information systems planning and the seminal articles which served to initiate the field of executive support systems (ESS). His current research interests include the extension of ESS concepts into management support systems (MSS), new software methods and tools for more effective systems development, and the future of the IT organization. He is co-editor of the book The Rise of Managerial Computing with Christine V. Bullen, and co-author of the books Computers and the Learning Process (with Michael Scott Morton) and Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use (with David W. De Long), the 1989 non-fiction winner of the Computer Press Association Book of the Year Award. Among his articles are "Chief Executives Define Their Own Data Needs" and "The CEO Goes On-Line" both of which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. He serves on the Board of Directors of three organizations. Named by InformationWeek magazine in 1988 as one of the top ten MIS consultants, Dr. Rockart lectures and consults for several major companies.