William DeLone
Prof Emeritus
Kogod: Info Technology
Degrees
B.S., Villanova University; M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Computers and Information Systems)
Bio
Professor DeLone is a Kogod Eminent Professor of Information Technology. He has served as the Acting Dean, the Senior Associate Dean, Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Information Technology. He also served as Chair of American University’s Strategic Planning Steering Committee. He held both faculty and administrative positions at the University of the Virgin Islands prior to joining the Kogod faculty in 1986. Professor DeLone is an internationally recognized scholar in the measurement of information systems effectiveness. His article, “Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable” was determined to be the most cited article appearing in the top information systems journals over a period of 15 year. His research has been published in various information systems journals including Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the Journal of Information Technology, the Communications of the ACM, and MIS Quarterly Executive. He is the executive director of Kogod’s Cybersecurity Governance Center. The Center’s mission is to develop new knowledge about managing corporate risks associated with cyber security by combining the intellectual capital of the American University with that of partner corporations.
