Visiting Baskerville, Mathiassen and Myers in Atlanta

I have just returned from a great “road trip” to Atlanta. Lars Mathiassen and Richard Baskerville at Georgia State University hosted me there for a couple of days to give me feedback on my new paper and general PhD progress. Providentially for me, Michael Myers – the editor of the AIS website on Qualitative Research in Information Systems – was visiting Richard and we had some excellent discussions over great southern BBQ and Mexican tacos.
Lars and Richard were very constructive in their feedback to me – but also tough! Lars ripped my paper apart and Richard challenged many of the ideas I have about enterprise architecture in government. They both thought that the data that I have collected here in Washington DC is solid, but the want me to be more specific about my contribution to theory and practice. Lets see where this takes me – maybe I will try to write an article with Lars, maybe I will have change my theoretical perspective… Research is exiting, unpredictable and life long learning process!