John Leslie King is Dean and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research concerns the development of high-level requirements for information systems design and implementation in institutionalized production sectors such as common carrier communications, logistics and transport, health care, criminal courts, electric power, and electronic commerce. The objective of the work is better articulation of requirements, specifications, and prototype development. He has authored over 150 books and scholarly papers from his research. Dr. King served as Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research from 1993-1998.