Biographies
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Dr
Charles Despres
Dr Charles Despres obtained his doctorate from the University of Utah (USA)
by working on the organising implications of large-scale information systems.
His subsequent research has centred on the triad of information, organisation
and culture, and since 1997 his academic and professional career has
concentrated on the emerging field of Knowledge Management. He joined IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland)
in 1991 as an ABD Research Fellow, completed his doctoral work and moved to
the south of France four
years later to assume research / professorial roles at the Institute
d’Administration des Entreprises, Aix-en-Provence
and the Theseus Institute (Sophia Antipolis). Charles was Professor of
Organisation and Director of International Development at the Graduate School
of Business, Marseille-Provence from 1997 - 2002. In 2003 he joined the
Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris as Director of Programs at its
International Institute of Management. He has authored around 75 articles,
chapters, monographs, grants or proceedings, and co-authored two books,
Leveraged Innovation (Macmillan, 1998, with F. Bidault & C. Butler) and
Knowledge Horizons (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, with D. Chauvel).
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Charles Despres
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Dr Egon Berghout
Egon Berghout is Professor of Information Management at the University of Groningen,
The Netherlands. His research interest covers the entire field of Information
Management, Information Systems and philosophy in general. His specialisation
concerns the economical aspects of information technology. How organisations
can create and sustain superior (competitive) performance through information
technology? A list of recent publication can be found here. He is a Fellow of the Research School of Systems,
Organizations and Management (SOM) and is associated to the London School of
Economics, City University Business
School and TIAS Business
School. He is also
Principal Associate of M&I/PARTNERS Consultants of Management and ICT.
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Egon Berghout
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Damien Bruté de
Rémur
Damien Bruté de Rémur is a French teacher-researcher,
specialist in intelligence economic.
Lecturer in Sciences of Management at the University Montpellier 1 (UFR AES)
in laboratory GESEM (Group of studies in sciences of the company and the
markets) and director of the IR2I (Institute of research in informational
intelligence), he is the author of several works on the economic
intelligence.
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Damien Bruté de Rémur
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Dr Marguerite Cronk
Dr Marguerite (Reet) Cronk is currently an Associate Professor and Director
of the IT Program at Harding
University, AR, USA. Reet has been involved with
IT evaluation research for 10 years, with publications in journals such as
the Journal of Information Management and Logistics, the South African
Business Review, and the Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods. She
has been involved with the European Conference on IT Evaluation (now ECIME)
as presenter chair and reviewer since 1997, introducing novel concepts and
methodologies such as Holistic Construal and Value Alignment to the IT
evaluation field.
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Reet Cronk
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Charles Ashman
Charles is one of HP’s leading
strategic senior business managers and IT consultants. He is ITIL certified
and has over 30 years experience in the management of IT business and IT
solutions to meet complex business and social requirements. He gained this experience
whilst working in senior consulting and operational management posts.
Charles began working for HP in 1990, and has undertaken extensive
assignments not only in the IT industry but also the telecommunications,
financial, manufacturing and public sectors and is Practice Principal, HP
Consulting and Integration, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Having held his current position since June 2005, Charles’ role
involves the managing of new solution launches and business improvement
programmes, including the IT Shared Services consulting initiative launch.
Prior to this, Charles held positions based in the Middle East, working in
HP’s Enterprise, Server and Storage division, ultimately managing the
Server, Storage and Software sales, marketing and product management unit.
Before moving to his current role in Consulting and Integration within the HP
Services division, Charles held the role of Middle East
director, pre-sales for what was then the HP Customer Solutions Group.
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Charles Ashman
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Dr David Barnes
David Barnes is
Senior Lecturer in Operations and Strategic Management at the School of Management,
Royal Holloway, University
of London. He has held
lecturing posts with the Open University and Thames
Valley University,
and was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
He holds a BSc (Eng) from Imperial College London, a MBA from the Open
University and a PhD from Staffordshire
University. Prior to
academia he worked in the process plant and building products industries, in
engineering and line management positions. His research interests include the
strategic management of operations; the impact of the Internet-based ICTs of
e-business on operations management; performance management; and the
management of SMEs. He has published articles in, amongst others, the International Journal of Operations
and Production Management, Journal of Manufacturing Technology
Management, Knowledge and Process Management, Electronic Markets, Journal
of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, European Journal of Management and the International Journal of Small
Business and Enterprise Development.
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David Barnes
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Dr Romano
Dyerson
Dr Dyerson is
currently a senior lecturer in strategy at the School
of Management, Royal Holloway University
of London and a former research fellow at the Centre for Business Strategy at
London Business School.
Trained as an economist, his research interests focus on the interplay of
strategic and organisational change under conditions of technological
innovation. He is particularly interested in managerial strategy and
implementation. He has published widely in a number of journals including the
Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies and is a member of the
Strategic Management Society and British
Academy of Management.
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Romano Dyerson
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Dr G. Harindranath
Dr G. Harindranath is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director of
the Distance Learning MBA in International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hari holds a doctorate from
the London School of Economics, and his research interests include
information and communications technology use in SMEs, information
infrastructure policy and e-government initiatives in transition economies,
and ICT and economic development. Hari is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Information Management,
and serves on the
editorial board of the International Journal of Knowledge
Management. He has published in a range of international journals
including Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information
Systems, Human Relations, The Information Society, and Information
Technology for Development. Hari regularly serves on the programme
committees of a range of major conferences in information systems. He has
undertaken consultancy work for the United National Industrial Development
Organisation and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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“Hari” Harindranath
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Nigel Laurie
Nigel Laurie is an international management consultant, founding editor of
'Philosophy of Management', co-editor of the journal 'Practical Philosophy'
and a former Chair of the Society for Philosophy in Practice. He is a
Certificated Practitioner in NLP, a Fellow of the Institute for Management
Consulting and has over 25 years experience as a management consultant
facilitating dialogues and events in businesses, government and public sector
organisations in the UK,
Europe, North America and Asia
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Nigel Laurie
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Reima Suomi
Reima Suomi is a professor of Information Systems Science at Turku School of
Economics and Business
Administration, Finland
since 1994. He is a docent for the universities of Turku
and Oulu, Finland. Years 1992-93 he spent
as a “Vollamtlicher Dozent” in the University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland, where he led a research project on business process
re-engineering. Currently he concentrates on topics around management of
telecommunications, including issues such as management of networks,
electronic and mobile commerce, virtual organizations, telework and
competitive advantage through telecommunication-based information systems.
Different governance structures applied to the management of IS and are
enabled by IS belong too to his research agenda, as well as application of
information systems in health care. Reima Suomi has together over 300
publications, and has published in journals such as Information &
Management, Information Services & Use, Technology Analysis &
Strategic Management, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Behaviour
& Information Technology, Journal of Management History and Information
Resources Management Journal. For the academic year 2001-2002 he was a senior
researcher “varttunut tutkija” for the academy of Finland.
With Paul Jackson he has published the book “Virtual Organization and
workplace development with Routhledge, London.
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Reima
Suomi
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