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Dr Michael Lane

Dr Michael Lane
Name Michael Lane
Position Senior Lecturer (Information Systems)
Section School of Business
Office T265
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1268
Extension 1268
Email
Qualifications ADipMC USQ , BIT(Hons) USQ , PhD USQ

Biography

Dr Michael Lane has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). He is the Vice-Chair of the ACS Downs and South West Chapter and Chair of the USQ ICT Programs Leadership and Governance Committee. He has over 20 years experience in teaching research and service. His teaching and research is focused on Digital Transformation, Business Analytics/Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security at both organisational and societal levels. His Research has been published widely in high quality journals and conferences. He is supervising a number of PhD/DBAR students in these areas and prides himself doing research that is relevant, rigorous and solves real problems.

Research Career


  • Distributed Computing not elsewhere classified ( 080599 )
  • Information Systems Management ( 080609 )
  • Information Systems Organisation ( 080610 )
  • Decision Support and Group Support Systems ( 080605 )
  • Computer System Security ( 080303 )
  • Cybersecurity And Privacy ( 460400 )
  • Decision Support And Group Support Systems ( 460902 )
  • Information Systems Organisation And Management ( 460908 )
  • Information Systems ( 460900 )
  • Data Management And Data Science not elsewhere classified ( 460599 )
  • Data Management And Data Science ( 460500 )

1. Digital Transformation of Organisations
2. Cyber security management – risk, governance and compliance
3. Business analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Current PhD Students
Wong, Wai, Yip (Freddy), PhD Project, Business Analytics Maturity in ERP Systems: Greater China Region, (Principal Supervisor Dr Michael Lane)
Craig Baty, DBAR Project, National Cultural Determinants of the Strategic Investment in ICT: A Comparative Study of Japan and Australia, (Principal Supervisor Dr Michael Lane) LOA 2021
Asgarkhani, Medhi PhD Project, (Dr Mustafa Ally Principal Supervisor, Prof Mark Toleman Associate Supervisor, Dr Michael Lane Associate Supervisor), Exploring the role and effectiveness of Information Technology Governance (ITG) in maximising value from information technology initiatives
Mohamed Navavi, DBAR Project (Dr Michael Lane Principal Supervisor) How can Mobile Apps improve Patient Self Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Sean Smith, DBAR Project, (Principal Supervisor Dr Michael Lane) Digital Transformation of Healthcare Supply Chain Improving Clinical Safety
Marcello Sequeria, DBAR Project (Principal Supervisor Dr Michael Lane), Data Maturity Model: Home Aged Care

PhD and Masters Students Completed
Mehmet Ercan PhD Thesis - An Evaluation of the Performance of a NoSQL Document Database in a Simulation of a Large Scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, (Principal supervisor), April 2018

Sanjib Tiwari PhD Thesis - An Evaluation of The Broadband Ecosystem in Western Downs Region (WDR) – USQ CRN Project 2 (Principal Supervisor) April 2017

Mohammad, Mehdi, Rajaeian, PhD Thesis, An Investigation of Decision Support Knowledge Production, Transfer and Adoption for IT Outsourcing, April 2017

Robert Poepjes, PhD Thesis - The development and evaluation of an Information Security Awareness Capability Model: Linking ISO/IEC 27002 controls with Awareness Importance, Capability and Risk, (Principal supervisor) September 2015

Moyassar Alyas PhD Thesis – The configuration of CIO roles determined by different stages of organisational life cycle, (Principal supervisor), December 2014

Kevin Barton, (Nova Southeastern University), PhD Thesis - Information System Security Commitment: A Study of External Influences on Senior Management, (Committee member, Associate supervisor), November 2014

Brian Strong, Master Thesis, Prudential Regulatory Governance of IT Sourcing Strategies within the Australian Banking Sector (Associate supervisor), September 2014

Marhaini Mohd Noor PhD Thesis EVALUATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY INFORMATICS TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF MALAYSIA’S RURAL INTERNET CENTRES (Associate Supervisor), September 2013

Markus Lembach, DBAR Dissertation, The Fit of Mobile Work Support Functions with Mobile Sales-Force Worker Tasks, 2012 (Principal supervisor Michael Lane)

Arjun KC Master of Business Research Dissertation 2012 – Software vulnerability disclosures and its impact on the response time of vendor patching (Principal supervisor Michael Lane)

Sanjib Tiwari Master of Business Research Dissertation - Trust and Privacy and Social networking sites 2012 (Associate supervisor Michael Lane)


Association for Information Systems (AIS) http://www.aisnet.org
Australian Information Security Association http://www.aisa.org.au/
Australian Computer Society http://www.acs.org.au


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECE)
  • Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

Teaching


School of Business (Information Systems) Undergraduate Bachelor of Informaton Technology and Postgraduate Master of Information Systems, MBA
CIS8008 Business Intelligence
CIS8025 Big Data Visualisation
CIS2005 Principles of Information Security
CIS5205 Management of Information Security


20 Years


BELA Faculty - Associate Dean Academic
Chair of USQ ICT Programs Leadership and Governance
Member of USQ Advisory Board for Study of IT - Current

Supervision


  • Distributed Computing not elsewhere classified ( 080599 )
  • Information Systems Management ( 080609 )
  • Information Systems Organisation ( 080610 )
  • Decision Support and Group Support Systems ( 080605 )
  • Computer System Security ( 080303 )
  • Cybersecurity And Privacy ( 460400 )
  • Decision Support And Group Support Systems ( 460902 )
  • Information Systems Organisation And Management ( 460908 )
  • Information Systems ( 460900 )
  • Data Management And Data Science not elsewhere classified ( 460599 )
  • Data Management And Data Science ( 460500 )