Mr Peter O'Donnell - Researcher Profile

Biography

Peter works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as a Lecturer.

Keywords

BI, Business Intelligence Systems, Chartjunk, DSS, EIS, Executive Information Systems, Social Media, Visualizations

Qualifications

MASTER OF COMPUTING

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Meredith, R.A., O'Donnell, P.A., 2010, A functional model of social media and its application to business intelligence, in Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade, eds Ana Respicio, Frederic Adam, Gloria Phillips-Wren, Carlos Teixeira and Joao Telhada, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 129-140.

Remington, S.M., O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., 2010, Market strategy and innovation in the business intelligence industry: A preliminary study, in Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade, eds Ana Respicio, Frederic Adam, Gloria Phillips-Wren, Carlos Teixeira and Joao Telhada, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 223-234.

Meredith, R.A., O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., 2008, Databases and data warehouses for decision support, in Handbook on Decision Support Systems 1: Basic Themes, eds Frada Burstein and Clyde W. Holsapple, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 207-230.

O'Donnell, P.A., Meredith, R.A., 2008, Influence diagrams as a tool for decision support system design, in Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies, eds Frederic Adam and Patrick Humphreys, Information Science Publishing, Hershey PA USA, pp. 474-481.

Briggs, D., O'Donnell, P.A., 2006, A critical review of literature on data warehouse systems success and failure, in Creativity and Innovation in Decision Making and Decision Support, eds Frederic Adam, Patrick Brezillion, Sven Carlsson and Patrick Humphreys, Ludic Publishing, London UK, pp. 1004-1028.

O'Donnell, P.A., 2006, The effect of learning style on the ability of end-users to perform OLAP query: an experimental study, in Creativity and Innovation in Decision Making and Decision Support, eds Frederic Adam, Patrick Brezillion, Sven Carlsson and Patrick Humphreys, Ludic Publishing, London UK, pp. 506-522.

O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., Gibson, M.C., 2002, Data warehousing development methodologies: A comparative analysis, in Decision Making and Decision Support in the Internet Age, eds F. Adam, P. Brezillon, P. Humphreys and J.-C. Pomerol, Oak Tree Press, Cork Ireland, pp. 387-398.

Journal Articles

Meredith, R.A., Remington, S.M., O'Donnell, P.A., Sharma, N., 2012, Organisational transformation through business intelligence: Theory, the vendor perspective and a research agenda, Journal of Decision Systems [P], vol 21, issue 3, Taylor & Francis, London UK, pp. 187-201.

O'Donnell, P.A., Sipsma, S., Watt, C., 2012, The critical issues facing business intelligence practitioners, Journal of Decision Systems [P], vol 21, issue 3, Taylor & Francis, London UK, pp. 203-216.

Meredith, R., O'Donnell, P., 2011, A framework for understanding the role of social media in business intelligence systems, Journal of Decision Systems [P], vol 20, issue 3, Lavoisier, Paris France, pp. 263-282.

Arnott, D.R., O'Donnell, P.A., 2008, A note on an experimental study of DSS and forecasting exponential growth, Decision Support Systems, vol 45, issue 1, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 180-186.

Remington, S.M., O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., 2008, Enterprise reporting without a data warehouse: A case study, Journal of Decision Systems, vol 17, issue 1, Lavoisier, Cachan Cedex France, pp. 133-151.

Arnott, D.R., Jirachiefpattana, W., O'Donnell, P.A., 2007, Executive information systems development in an emerging economy, Decision Support Systems, vol 42, issue 4, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 2078-2084.

O'Donnell, P.A., 2005, The problem with pivot tables, Business Intelligence Journal, vol 10, issue 1, The Data Warehousing Institute, Seattle USA, pp. 25-31.

Nantiyakul, R., O'Donnell, P.A., Meredith, R.A., 2005, Using the technology acceptance model to analyze the likely impact of Microsoft's Reporting Services product, KMITL Science Journal, vol 5, issue 1, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok Thailand, pp. 86-96.

O'Donnell, P.A., 2001, The use of influence diagrams in the design of spreadsheet models: An experimental study, Australian Journal of Information Systems, vol 9, issue 1, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW Australia, pp. 79-91.

Conference Proceedings

O'Donnell, P.A., Sipsma, S., Watt, C., 2012, The 'hot' issues in business intelligence: The view of practitioners, Proceedings of the 16th IFIP Working Group 8.3 International Conference on Decision Support Systems, 28 June 2012 to 30 June 2012, IOS Press, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 101-112.

Sathyanarayana, P., Tran, P., Meredith, R.A., O'Donnell, P.A., 2012, Towards a protocol to measure the social media affordances of web sites and business intelligence systems, Fusing Decision Support Systems into the Fabric of the Context, 28 June 2012 to 30 June 2012, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 317-322.

Meredith, R.A., Remington, S.M., O'Donnell, P.A., Sharma, N., 2012, Transforming organizations with business intelligence: Comparing theory with the vendor perspective, Proceedings of the 16th IFIP Working Group 8.3 International Conference on Decision Support Systems, 28 June 2012 to 30 June 2012, IOS Press, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 89-100.

O'Donnell, P., Pourdadashmiri, M., 2010, Visualization of data in Business Intelligence systems: An experimental examination of the impact of Chartjunk, Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing and International Conference on Data Analysis, Data Quality and Metadata Management, 12 July 2010 to 13 July 2010, Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), Singapore, pp. 50-57.

Arnott, D.R., Pervan, G., O'Donnell, P.A., Dodson, G., 2004, An analysis of decision support systems research: preliminary results, Decision Support in an Uncertain World: The 2004 IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS2004): Proceedings of the Conference, 01 July 2004 to 03 July 2004, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 25-38.

O'Donnell, P.A., Draper, N., 2004, An experimental evaluation of an alternative to the pivot table for ad hoc access to OLAP data, Decision Support in an Uncertain World: Proceedings of the 2004 IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS2004), 01 July 2004 to 03 July 2004, Monash University, Melbourne VIC Australia, pp. 607-617.

Remington, S.M., O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., 2004, Enterprise reporting without a data warehouse: a case study, Decision Support in an Uncertain World: Proceedings of the 2004 IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS2004), 01 July 2004 to 03 July 2004, Monash University, Melbourne VIC Australia, pp. 673-682.

O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., Yeo, L., 1997, An Experimental Study of the Impact of a Computer-based Decision Aid on the Forecast of Exponential Data, The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS '97) Conference Proceedings, Brisbane, 1-5 April, 1997, ISMRC/ Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 279-288.

Shanks, G., O'Donnell, P.A., Arnott, D.R., 1997, Data Warehousing: A Preliminary Field Study, Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, SA, 30 September 1997, ACLS Executive Committee, University of SA, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 350-365.

Arnott, D.R., O'Donnell, P.A., Jirachiefpattana, W., 1997, Outsourcing the Development of an Executive Information System: A Case Study from the Transport Industry, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide 29 Sept. to 2 Oct. 1997, The Australian Computer Society, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 30-42.

Teaching Commitment

Peter O'Donnell is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT1039 - Web systems
• FIT2001 - Systems development
• FIT2027 - Systems design and implementation
• FIT5093 - Business intelligence applications
• FIT9030 - Database systems design

Peter teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Amaripuja, P.

Program of Study:

Exploring Differences between Visualization Methods in Spatial Data Analysis. 2004.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).

Student:

Gibson, M.

Program of Study:

Decision Support Systems for Small Business: Assessment, Framework and Research Agenda. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Arnott, D (Main), O''Donnell, P (Associate).

Student:

Gonsalvez, C.

Program of Study:

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FORMS OF EXPERIMENTAL LEARING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION. 2002.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).

Student:

Pereira, J.

Program of Study:

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS : IDENTIFYING FACTORS THAT AFFECT USAGE.. (Masters) 2000.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).

Student:

Rachmat, S.

Program of Study:

Australian Data Warehousing Practice. 2000.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).

Student:

See Swee Lan, .

Program of Study:

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF THE COMPUTER AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL IN MANAGERIAL WORK. (Masters) 2000.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).

Student:

Shah, P.

Program of Study:

Data Warehouse Governance and Outsourcing: An Empirical Investigation and Framework Proposal. (Masters) 2006.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main), Meredith, R (Associate).

Student:

Tunneekul, L.

Program of Study:

A SURVEY INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF A A DATA WAREHOUSE ON IT'S USERS. 2000.

Supervisors:

O''Donnell, P (Main).