Sandra Sieber

Doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Dirección de Empresas, IESE, Universidad de Navarra Licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Biography: Dr. Sieber is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Systems. She joined IESE in 2000. Previously, she was associate professor at University Pompeu Fabra. From 2001 to 2004 she was appointed as the Academic Director of the PwC-IESE ebCenter. In 2003, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. Dr. Sieber's areas of interest center on the interplay of strategic management and information systems, as well as on the role of new information and communication technologies (ICT) for organizational learning and innovation. She has studied problems of technology adoption and IS implementation in great depth. In her research, she highlights the need for an improved user knowledge about IS, especially if IS has a strategic role in the organization; she also claims that a more interdepartmental and collaborative approach of joint project accountability is needed. Dr. Sieber is currently looking into ICT-enhanced innovation and how the adoption of new technologies may change work-practices in enterprises. Dr. Sieber is especially interested in those industries that are being transformed by recent technological advances, such as telecommunication, banking, media and entertainment. Dr. Sieber has published scholarly and general articles in national and international journals, magazines and newspapers, and contributed to several books. Recently, McGraw Hill published her book "Los Sistemas de Información en la Empresa Actual: Perspectivas Estratégicas y Alternativas Tácticas", co-authored by Josep Valor and Valentín Porta. Areas of interest: * Strategic management and Information Systems * ICT-enabled innovation * Organizational learning * The impact of ICT on work-practices * Technology-driven industry transformation


Posts by Sandra Sieber

Another Industry is being disrupted: Navigation! – What will this mean to mobile telephony?

November 1, 2009 - 12:42 pm

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You may have seen the recent announcement of the Google Maps Navigation application. And you may have thought: Hey, just another navigation device! But you may want to have a closer look at the whole thing, since what they are proposing is something that may be the killer application of the Navigation industry. Why? Let’s [...]

Does Windows 7 matter?

October 22, 2009 - 12:03 pm

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Today Microsoft will ring the bell on Nasdaq, as just one other way of celebrating the effective launch of its newest flagship product, Windows 7. The new operating system comes to the market just 3 years after the launch of the much announced Windows Vista, which never fulfilled the expectations of the market, nor that [...]

Software as a service goes mainstream: A tribute to those that made Microsoft’s decision to open its Office happen!

July 14, 2009 - 11:54 am

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If last summer was that of financial turmoil, this summer may very well become that of the long-seeked change of the software industry. What a month!
Microsoft launches Bing, Google responds with Google Wave. Google announces the Chrome OS, Microsoft responds launching a free Office version. OK, it will still take some time until we see [...]

Google Chrome Operating System!

July 8, 2009 - 9:46 am

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Just a quick note to draw your attention to another piece that shows how the IT landscape is redefining! Google will launch a new operating System, Chrome OS. Have a look at their blog for the official announcement, and follow up on Techcrunch. We will write more about it soon!

Facebook: Is it the new Google or the new Microsoft?

June 30, 2009 - 7:59 am

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The latest edition of Wired is carrying an extremely interesting article on Facebook and its plans to dominate the Internet, comparing it with Google. I think that albeit the comparison is fair, it is missing a third –probably more relevant-player: Microsoft.
We all know that the social network is pursuing the aim of putting the users’ [...]