Professor Michael McGrath
Professor, Information Systems
Professor G. Michael McGrath is currently a Professor of Information Systems at Victoria University.
He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry - mostly at Australia's largest PTC, Telstra, where he worked in a variety of technical and management positions. These included Senior Project Manager, responsible for the development of Telstra's multi-million dollar supply systems applications, and an executive-level position, as Manager Information Architecture within the organisation's Corporate Strategy Directorate.
He is the author of over 150 journal and conference publications and, in particular, is a regular supporter of and contributor to information systems conferences worldwide (where he has presented papers at the International, Americas, Australasian and European Conferences on Information Systems).
He is on the editorial boards of a number of international information systems journals, he has supervised 15 PhD and Masters research students to completion and has examined over 30 doctoral theses.
Key publications
Watters, R. and McGrath, G.M. (2013). "A Systematic, Structured Approach to Organization Change Management: Predicting Unintended Consequences of Organization Change", Journal of Information Technology Management, Vol.24, No.1, March 2013.
McGrath, G.M., Law, A. and DeLacy, T. (2012). "Decision Support for the Development of Green Growth Tourism Strategies: Managing Complexity", Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol.13, No.4, December, 2012.
Law, A., DeLacy, T., McGrath, G.M., Whitelaw, P., Lipman, G. and Buckley, G. (2012). "Towards a Green Economy Decision Support System for Tourism Destinations", Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol.20, No.6, pp. 823-843.
Law, A., McGrath, G.M. and DeLacy, T. (2012). "A 'Green Economy Tourism System' (GETS): Architecture and Usage", (M. Fuchs, F. Ricci and L. Cantoni eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012, Springer: Vienna, pp. 203-214.
Pornphol, P. and McGrath, G.M. (2011). "Information Systems Development as an Emergent Knowledge Research Process", International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol.6, No.1, pp. 301-317.
Postgraduate research students and fellows
Completions as principal supervisor: 8 PhD students, 2 Masters students, 1 Honours student
Completions as co-supervisor: 5 PhD students
Current as principal supervisor: 3 PhD students, 5 DBA students
Current as co-supervisor: 1 PhD student, 1 Masters student
Research grants
STCRC grants (2004, 2005 and 2008), $172,500
Grant from the National office for the Information Economy (NOIE) (2001), $75,000 (plus $15,000 from an ARC Safety Net grant)
ARC Small Grants (1996 and 2000) $38,445
ARC Collaborative Grants (1997-2001), $296,400
Internal Macquarie University research grants (1995, 1997 and 1999) $23,000
Professional membership
- MACM
- MACS
Portfolios
Areas of expertise
- Business data and process modelling
- Decision Support Systems
- Knowledge base systems
- Simulations of organisational decision making processes
- Software requirements elicitation
- The use of information systems within the tourism industry