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Author(s)/Editor(s) Biography

Dr. Gerry Gingrich is a Professor of Systems Management in the Information Strategies Department of the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University on Fort McNair, Washington, DC. Her research and teaching interests are organizational innovation and strategy, information technology and change, and executive leadership. Prior to teaching at the National Defense University, Dr. Gingrich was Co-Director of the Executive Masters in Information Systems in the School of Business and Public Management at The George Washington University. Earlier, she taught information systems strategy in the M.B.A. program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Gingrich obtained a Ph.D. in cognitive and organizational sciences from the University of Maryland in 1985 and a post-doctoral degree in information systems at the University of Minnesota in 1987. She has published her research in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, the Defense Intelligence Journal, the Journal of End User Computing, the National Defense University’s Strategic Forum, Organizational Behavior and Human Processes, and the Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Factors in Information Systems. Prior to entering the teaching profession, Dr. Gingrich was a Project Director for Louis Harris and Associates and for Westat, Inc., a corporate lending officer for NationsBank, and a certified public accountant for KPMG Peat Marwick. She obtained a B.S. in accounting and business from the University of North Carolina in 1972.