Jonny Holmstrom

Jonny Holmstrom
Residence Umeå, Sweden
Citizenship Swedish
Fields Information Systems
Institutions Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, Department of Informatics, Umeå University
Alma mater Umeå University
Doctoral students Katrin Jonsson
Ulrika Westergren
Henrik Wimelius
Fredrik Svahn
Johan Sandberg
Daniel Nylén
Viktor Arvidsson
Lars Öbrand
Daniel Skog
Ted Saarikko
Nils-Petter Augustsson
Vasili Mankevich
Hosea Ayaba
Known for IT and organizational change
Digital Innovation
Influences Daniel Robey
Lars Mathiassen
Kalle Lyytinen

Jonny Holmstrom is a professor of Informatics at Umeå University[1] and director and co-founder of Swedish Center for Digital Innovation.

Biography

Jonny Holmstrom was born in Arvidsjaur in 1968. He received his Ph.D. from Umeå University in 2000, and has been a visiting scholar at Georgia State University and Florida International University. Holmstrom is a senior editor at Information and Organization[2] and serves at the editorial boards for European Journal of Information Systems[3] and Communications of the AIS.[4] Holmstrom has written 2 books and has published over 100 scholarly articles in professional journals and edited volumes. He is also a popular speaker on digital, economic and political issues, issues which he is also actively debating on twitter. Holmstrom has also conducted a series of interviews with thought leaders in the digital innovation realm discussing topics such as the challenges and opportunities for scholars in the digital world, what constitutes a strong research environment, and what practical implications we should expect from scholars today.

Work

Jonny Holmstrom is a professor of Informatics at Umeå University and director and co-founder of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. He writes, consults and speaks on topics such as IT management, IT innovation, and strategies for leveraging IT-based value for firms. Holmstrom is the founder and CEO for Holmstrom Management and Communications, co-founder and CEO for Remus Minds, and co-founder of Remus Technologies.[5] He uses rigorous research to gain insight into how firms can leverage value from IT use. His work has appeared in journals such as Communications of the AIS, Convergence, Design Issues, European Journal of Information Systems, Industrial Management and Data Systems, Information and Organization, Information Resources Management Journal, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology and People, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Research Policy, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and The Information Society.

IT and Organizational Change

Holmstrom’s early work examined the interaction between information technology and organizations. Prior research often assumed information technology to be either an objective, external force with deterministic impacts on organizations, or the outcome of social action. Holmstrom’s research suggested that either view is incomplete, and he proposed to take both perspectives into account. Drawing from actor-network theory as analytical lens, Holmstrom has explored the role of IT in contexts such as municipal organizations, airports, and digital cash projects. In these studies, Holmstrom stressed the notion of non-human agency in which processes, technological tools and other similar concepts can be viewed as non-human actors that acquire an identity of their own.

Digital Innovation

In more recent research, Holmstrom has addressed digital innovation, specifically how organizations are dealing with “the digitization of everything” as a challenge and an opportunity. To deal with digitization, Holmstrom argues that organizations need to develop a comprehensive digital strategy. Holmstrom’s digital innovation research addresses how digital capabilities increasingly determines which companies create or lose value. Among these studies we find studies of firms in the mining industry, the paper and pulp industry, and the publishing industry. He also published a Harvard Business School case focusing on the ways in which digitization brings challenges as well as opportunities to firms in the publishing industry.

Awards

Jonny Holmstrom was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the STINT Foundation (The Swedish Foundation for International Co-operation in Research and Higher Education) for post-doctoral research at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA in 2000/2001. He was also awarded a fellowship by the STINT Foundation to enable a visiting research position at Decision Sciences and Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, in 2004. Holmstrom received Royal Skytteanska Samfundets award for young researchers at the Social Sciences faculty,[6] Umeå University, in 2005, and Nordea’s Scientific Award 2007.[7] In 2009 he received Umeå University’s Young Researcher Award[8] and the AIS senior scholars award for best IS journal paper of the year in 2010.[9] Holmstrom was also awarded with the Pedagogical Award of the Year in the IS discipline in Sweden 2011 by the Swedish Association of Information Systems.[10]

Consulting

Over the past decade, Holmstrom has consulted with for-profit and non-profit organizations about how to manage digital technology. His recent engagements include the tech lab Remus Technologies.

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty directory at Umeå university". Umeå university. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Information and Organization editorial board". Elsevier. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ "EJIS editorial board". Palgrave. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ "CAIS editorial board". AIS. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Remus team". Remus. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Tidigare pristagare". Skytteanska Samfundet. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Nordea award". Umeå university. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Umeå University’s Young Researcher Award". AIS. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ "AIS best paper award 2010". AIS. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ "SISA pedagogical award". Umeå university. Retrieved September 28, 2015.

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