Kate M. Kaiser has been involved in information technology as a practitioner, researcher, faculty member, and consultant for 35 years. She is researching the future IT skill needs and the impact of offshore outsourcing from Ireland, Russia, and India through research grants from the Sloan and 3M Foundations. Dr. Kaiser has served on the faculty of McGill University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University College Dublin, and Marquette University and has worked for Giga Information Group on its Y2K team.

She has been published in MIS Quarterly Executive, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Information & Management, and Datamation, among others. Dr. Kaiser is active in the Society for Information Management (SIM). She has a bachelor’s degree and MBA from Kent State and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. She can be reached at kate.kaiser at mu.edu.