Jim F. Courtney is Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.  He formerly was Tenneco Professor of Business Administration in the Information and Operations Management Department at Texas A&M University.  He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management Science) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974.  His academic experience also includes faculty positions at Georgia Tech, Texas Tech, Lincoln University in New Zealand and the State University of New York at Buffalo.  Other experience includes positions as Database Analyst at MRI Systems Corporation and Visiting Research Scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a major in management science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974.  His papers have appeared in several journals, including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Database, Interfaces, the Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, and the Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation.  He is the co-developer of the Systems Laboratory for Information Management (Business Publications, 1981), a software package to support research and education in decision support systems, co-author of Database Systems for Management (Second Edition, Irwin Publishing Company, 1992), and Decision Support Models and Expert Systems (MacMillan Publishing, 1992).  He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the Knowledge Management Consortium Institute. His present research interests are knowledge-based decision support systems, knowledge management, inquiring (learning) organizations and sustainable economic systems.