John Fralick (Jack) Rockart (1931 – February 3, 2014) was an American

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, and Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Center for Information Systems Research at the

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Biography

Born in New York City, Rockart received his AB from the

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, his MBA from

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, and in 1968 his PhD in

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from MIT.John Rockart
at MIT Center for Information Systems Research After graduation, Rockart started his academic career as Instructor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1967 he was appointed Assistant Professor, in 1970 Associate Professor, and in 1974 Senior Lecturer. Since 1976 he was also Director of the

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(CISR),Rockart, John Fralick
MIT Museum Collections - People. where he was succeeded by

Peter Weill Peter Weill (born c. 1955) is an Australian computer scientist and organizational theorist, Professor of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chairman of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). ...

in 2000. In 1989 Rockart was awarded the Nonfiction Computer Press Association Book of the Year Award; and in 2003, the Leo Award by the

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. Rockart was founding editor-in-chief of the MIS Quarterly Executive. Rockart's research interests focused on the "managers’ usage of computer-based information with a special concentration on the need to design information flow for effective decision making... ndthe changing role of information technology and the implementation of integrated global systems."

Selected publications

Books and papers: * Bullen, Christine V., and John F. Rockart.
A primer on critical success factors
'' (1981). * Rockart, John F., and David W. De Long. ''Executive support systems: The emergence of top management computer use''. Dow Jones-Irwin, 1988. Articles, a selection: * Rockart, John F. "Chief executives define their own data needs." ''Harvard Business Review'' 57.2 (1979): 81. * Rockart, John F.
The changing role of the information systems executive: a critical success factors perspective
" ''Sloan Management Review'' Fall 1982; 24, pp. 3–13 * Rockart, John F., and Lauren S. Flannery.
The management of end user computing.
''Communications of the ACM'' 26.10 (1983): 776-784. * Malone, Thomas W., and John F. Rockart.
Computers, networks and the corporation.
''Scientific American'' 265.3 (1991): 128-136. * Rockart, John F., Michael J. Earl, and

Jeanne W. Ross Jeanne Wenzel Ross (born ca. 1952) is an American organizational theorist and principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), specializes in Enterprise Architecture, ICT ...

. "Eight imperatives for the new IT organization." ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 43-55.

References

External links

MIT CISR remembers Jack Rockart
at cisr.mit.edu, 2014.02.05.

at ''bostonglobe.com'' 2014.02.26.
John F. "Jack" Rockart: Obituary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rockart, John F. 1931 births 2014 deaths American business theorists Information systems researchers Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Harvard Business School alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni MIT Sloan School of Management faculty