Frédéric Adam is Bank of Ireland Professor of Business Information Systems (BIS) and Head of the BIS Department in Cork University Business School (University College Cork, Ireland). He also holds doctorates from the National University of Ireland and Université Paris VI (France). His research interests are focused on decision support systems, both in business and in the medical area, in which he has led a number of projects aimed at developing decision support artefacts for clinicians. He has also published extensively in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) area. His research has appeared in the Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and Information and Management. He is a founding principal investigator in the INFANT research centre, where he leads the Connected Health stream.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Decision Making

Decision Support

Health Information Systems

Business analytics

AI for decision making

PhD Supervised to completion

1.      Dr. D. Sammon, PhD University College Cork 2007 (funded by AFIS Department, UCC): Towards a mindful approach to enterprise-wide ERP project implementations.

2.      Dr. C. Heavin: PhD University College Cork 2010 (funded by AFIS Department, UCC), An Investigation of Approaches to Knowledge Management in Small to Medium Sized Software Enterprises (SMEs) – From Knowledge Activities to Knowledge Scenarios.

3.      Dr. F. Carton: PhD University College Cork 2010 (funded by AFIS Department, UCC), The Impact of ERP applications on Managerial Decision Making.

4.      Dr. C. Csaki: PhD UCC 2010 (funded by the President’s PhD Scholarship, UCC), Supporting Decision Making in Highly regulated environments: the case of Hungarian Public Procurement.

5.      Dr. N. O’Riordan: PhD University College Cork 2011 (funded by AFIS Department, UCC), An investigation of innovation and knowledge creation in virtual worlds.

6.      Dr. Anita Kumar: PhD University College Cork 2012 (funded by Lauritzson Foundation PhD fellowship), Enhanced Efficiency and Responsiveness in Consumer Food Supply Chains.

7.      S. Woodworth: PhD University College Cork 2013 (funded by AFIS Department, UCC), ERP and its impact on the Core Capabilities of the firm.

8.      J. Hegarty: PhD UCC 2013 (funded by LIP6, Universite Paris 6, France), Context-based Evaluation of Performance in Planning A Study of Decision Making in Transport Planning.

9.      M. Daly: PhD University College Cork 2013: Understanding Organizational Maturity with Decision Support (funded by AFIS Department, UCC).

10.  D. Dennehy: PhD University College Cork 2014, Business Models for Mobile Payment ecosystems (funded by AFIS Department, UCC).

11.  A McGrath, Understanding the IT capability of the Institute of Technology Sector, DBA at Waterford Institute of Technology, January 2015 (funded by WIT)

12.  N. Geary: PhD University College Cork, Exploration of the factors influencing software system test complexity of enterprise storage systems (funded by EMC2, Owens, Ireland). October 2016.

13.  A. Mousavinejad: PhD University College Cork, How decisions are made in highly uncertain situations (self-funded). October 2016.

14.  Nasser Binsaif, PhD University College Cork, Towards successful e-government initiatives: exploring the adaptation strategies of public sector middle managers, PhD (funded by the Government of Saudi Arabia), October 2018.

15.  Gerry O’Riordan, Understanding user adoption of technology – the case of the Electronic Maternal Clinical Patient Record – with Prof Gene Dempsey, Dept of Paediatrics & Child Health (viva April 17^th, 2019)

16.  Stephen McCarthy, Collaboration in multi-disciplinary development project teams (Staff member, Department of AFIS), (viva May 3^rd, 2019).

17.  Ian Twohig, An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Usage and Frequency of Worry amongst University Students, Department of Business Information Systems (viva Nov 2021).

18.  JB McCarthy, models for industry / academia engagement – the case of information systems, PhD (staff member, Department of Business Information Systems), Viva Feb 2022.

19.  Rowland Njoku, Mobile-Health Equitable Remedy - A Digital Socioecological Innovation For Health Equality And  Well-Being, Department of Business Information Systems, viva Mar 2022.

20.  Jerry Shanaghan, S&OP and long range strategic decision making, 2024.

21.  Latifah Alsqueal,  Virtual organisations and the role of the e-leader, 2025.

22.  Richard Harris, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services – Prototyping the role and contribution of connected health applications, 2026.