Hugh J. Watson is a Professor of MIS and a holder of a C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He is the author of 22 books and over 100 scholarly journal articles. He is recognized for his work on decision support systems, executive information systems, and most recently, data warehousing. He is a three-time winner of the Society for Information Management. s International Paper Competition. Hugh has consulted with numerous organizations, including the World Bank, Intel, IBM, Arthur Andersen, Conoco, and Glaxo. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Data Warehousing and a Fellow of The Data Warehousing Institute. He is the consulting series editor for John Wiley & Sons Computing and Information Processing series.