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Professor John Rees
Professor John
Rees obtained a BSc(Eng) Hons degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College
and a PhD in Image Processing from the University of Glamorgan.
He has worked for MoD, Intel, and Microsystem Services, in the areas of
communications and computer systems.
He joined Southampton Solent University
as Dean of the Faculty of Technology following teaching, research and
management positions with Staffordshire
University and the University of Glamorgan.
His personal research interests are in business technology, mobile
technology, machine vision and the technical aspects of the knowledge
economy, particularly in the productising of knowledge for commercial advantage.
He has published widely on aspects of information placement in large scale
distributed and mobile systems, machine vision, and image processing.
He is an enthusiastic proponent of technology transfer, skills enhancement,
and the engagement of the universities as the engines of the knowledge
economy, in areas related to which he has served on regional and national
committees and led major projects. He has managed and delivered large scale
technology interventions for the benefit of regional businesses, including
the Expert Centre for the Support of Electronic Commerce (ECSEC), Mobile
Technology for Business (MTB), TRY3G, WM Unplugged, West Midlands Mobile and
Wireless, and others. His consultancy activities have included work for BT,
Rank Xerox, Networking West Midlands, and numerous small businesses in
communications, customer research, manufacturing, software development,
business processes and strategy. Within the university, he is leading the
development of a centre of excellence offering an integrated portfolio of
support services, consultancy, demonstration facilities, and training in the
applications of knowledge management for business benefit in Southampton and the broader Hampshire area.
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Deogratias Harorimana
Deogratias Harorimana is a
PhD student at Southampton
Solent University.
Prior to that, Deogratias graduated in Business Information Management. His Doctorate’s primary research
focuses on the “Role of Gatekeepers in the Knowledge creation and
Transfer Process”. This research focuses on Manufacturing, High Tech,
and Agri biotech industries and financial firms. He publishes in the area of knowledge
networks, Communities of Practice, Identity formation and impact of culture
on knowledge transfer. Deogratias chairs the UK’s
Royal Geographical Society and the Institute
of British Geographers Post Graduate Research
Group. He is a member of the European Institute of Development Studies, and a
regular speaker and reviewer to the European Conference of Knowledge
Management. He is a co- author of the book “Le Café et
les Cafeiteurs du Rwanda, quels Sont les motivations?” Publibook, Paris (Forthcoming)
After a busy day, Deo does charitable work in the areas of promoting
massification of ICT in developing countries. His initiative
“Educational Resources for Africa (ERfA) has been working with H.E.I in
the UK to help rebuild
higher Education institutions in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide.
This initiative is expanding and currently working with seven UK’s HEI and colleges with Southampton Solent University
leading the way through its International Office.
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Professor David Watkins
David Watkins trained as a natural scientist and science policy analyst. He
joined Southampton Solent University
as Professor of Management Development after research, teaching and
management positions at Bournemouth University and Manchester Business
School. He has authored
a number of books and published more than 100 articles in the academic and
popular press, ranging from Nature,
Research Policy and Small Business Economics through to New Scientist. Many of these
publications have dealt with entrepreneurship, small business, innovation and
local economic development. They include: The Survival of the Small Firm: Entrepreneurship and the Economics of
Survival; The Small Business
Kit; and The Working
Partnership: SMEs and Biodiversity. In the 70s he also pioneered the use
of multimedia packs related to broadcast and video TV. These included Be Your Own Boss for Yorkshire
Television and The Business of Excellence
for the Open College.
Professor Watkins has consulted to organisations ranging in size from one-man
bands to companies in the European top ten, governments and international
organisations such as the Asian Development Bank and the European
Parliament. Most of these assignments have related to activities which
were not just new to the organisation but for which no ground rules
previously existed. For example, he undertook the feasibility study for
one of the earliest Science Parks in the UK and designed an International
Community Relations Policy for a major oil company. He also regularly
works for the European Commission as an evaluator, assessor or scientific
expert on vocational development projects and socio-technical research
programmes.
Professor Watkins has edited or served on the advisory board of a number of
academic journals including International
Small Business Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Annual Review of Progress in Entrepreneurship
Research, as well as organising many international conferences.
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Vanessa V. Lawrence CB
Vanessa joined Ordnance Survey in 2000, moving from a global management post
in strategic marketing and communications at software company Autodesk®.
She has extensive experience in both geographical information systems and
publishing. She is the adviser to the British Government on mapping,
surveying and geographic information, Chair of the Agency Chief
Executives’ Association, Chair of the GI Panel, a member of the Board
of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and a Patron of MapAction.
Vanessa is a Visiting Professor at two Universities, a Chartered Geographer,
a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Institute of
Chartered Surveyors and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
She has been awarded six Honorary Doctorate degrees and is an Honorary Fellow
of University College London®. Vanessa was appointed as a
Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen’s
2008 New Year honours list.
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Bernard
Marr
Bernard Marr is one of the
world’s leading experts on strategic performance management. In this
capacity he has advised and worked with many leading organisations including
Accenture, Astra Zeneca, the Bank of England, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu,
Gartner, HSBC, Mars, the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, Tetley, the
Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has extensive work experience in
private companies, public sector organisations, and governments across North
America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia,
which makes him an acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, teacher, and
award-winning writer. In its recent article ‘wise guys’ the CEO
Journal recognised Bernard Marr as one of today’s leading business
brains. Having gained management experience in consulting, manufacturing and
international trading corporations, Bernard Marr moved to the Judge Institute
of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, and then to the
renowned Cranfield School of Management where he was a member of faculty for
nearly ten years before he took on his current role as Chief Executive and
Director of Research of the Advanced Performance Institute.
Bernard Marr has contributed to over 200 books, reports, and articles on
topics such as Corporate Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy
Maps, and Intangible Assets. He is the author of the recent books: 'Strategic
Performance Management', 'Perspectives on Intellectual Capital', 'Weighing
the Options: BSC Software', and 'Automating your Scorecard'.
Bernard’s expert comments on performance management have been used in a
range of high-profile publications including in the Financial Times, the
Sunday Times, Financial Management, the CFO magazine and the Wall Street
Journal. Bernard also holds various visiting professorships and is a member of
the editorial board at the Business Strategy Series as well as for many
leading academic journals in the field. Bernard Marr can be contacted via
e-mail at bernard.marr@ap-institute.com
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Thurasamy Ramayah
Thurasamy Ramayah
has an MBA from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Currently he is an Associate
Professor in the Operations Management Section at the School of Management,
USM. His current research interest is in the area of technology management
and adoption in business and education. He has published in several journals
such as Information Development, Asian
Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), WSEAS Transactions on Information
Science & Applications, International Journal of Learning, The
International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Asian
Journal of Information Technology (AJIT), International Journal of Business
Information Systems (IJBIS), International Journal of Services and Technology
Management (IJSTM) and Management Research News (MRN), International Journal
of Information and Operations Management Education (IJIOME), International
Journal of Services and Operations Management (IJSOM), Journal of Project
Management (JoPM), Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
(ECAM), North American Journal of Psychology (NAJP) and International Journal
of Emerging Markets (IJOEM). He also serves on the editorial boards and
program committees of several international journals and conferences of
repute. Thurasamy. Ramayah can be contacted by e-mail at ramayah@usm.my
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Adnan Maâlaoui
Adnan Maâlaoui is Assistant-lecturer in management (Business policy)
and supervisor of entrepreneurship division at “Institut
d’Administartion des Entreprise (IAE)”- Toulon University- France.
He is active member of the ERMMES Laboratory and ECKM committee. In addition,
he is junior reviewer in management and member of the academy of management.
His research interest is in particular about strategic alliances, knowledge
acquisition and transfer, organizational and inter organizational learning.
His several communications treat strategic management (Knowledge learning)
and entrepreneurship (Incubation
learning).
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Malek Bourguiba
Malek Bourguiba holds a PHD in management science, working on
entrepreneurship and national culture. Her research is concerned with the SME
creation, development and transmission, in a comparative perspective. She is
a member of research team in entrepreneurial processes and organization at
the CEREFIGE Laboratory-Nancy University- France. In addition, her researches
are related to the cognitive aspect in international management.
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Amine Chelly
Amine Chelly is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ecole des Dirigeants et
Créateurs d’entreprise (EDC) Paris, France. Currently he is Entrepreneurship
Program Coordinator at the EDC. He has a thesis in Management with an
emphasis on entrepreneurship from the University of the South, Toulon-Var, France. Dr. Chelly has conducted
research studies in the area entrepreneurial opportunity identification,
entrepreneurial teams’ conflict management, creativity and competitive
intelligence.
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Professor Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor
is currently Professor of Human Geography and Director of Human Geography in
the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental
Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has a PhD in Geography from
University College London and has worked at the University of Auckland, NZ
(1971-1979) and the Australian National University in Canberra (1979-1986),
During this period he undertook research on the role of SMEs and TNCs in
local economic development, extending work started in the UK to include
Australia and the developing country contexts of the Pacific Islands and
Malaysia.
In1986 he joined Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, initially in the
regional development field, but latterly in land transport research as
Assistant Secretary in the then Commonwealth Bureau of Transport and
Communications Economics. In 1989, he was appointed to the Chair in Geography
at the University of Western Australia, and, in 1994, returned to the UK to take up a Chair in Geography at the University of Portsmouth. In August 2001, I was
appointed to a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham.
He is currently Deputy Chair of the IGU Commission on the Dynamics of
Economic Spaces and was Academic Director of the Mercia Institute of
Enterprise from 2001 to 2005. His research is focused on the theme of
‘business enterprise and local development’ with the goal to
understand better the constraints on local growth imposed by processes of
global change
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Sandra Begley
Sandra Begley (BA
(Hons), PgCert, MSc, FHEA) is currently a doctoral researcher in Enterprise and Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham. Prior to her current position Sandra
was a Senior Lecturer in Information and Applied Business Systems at
Staffordshire University (2000-2007) and has twenty years of industrial
experience in the financial and manufacturing sectors prior to becoming an
academic. Sandra is a
professional member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a member
of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and a committee member and
reviewer for the European Conference on Knowledge Management. She is also a professionally
accredited teacher in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy. Her major research
interests are in Intellectual Capital, temporary coalitions, collective
knowledge and spatial dynamics and the implications
for firm renewal, growth and innovation.
More recently Sandra has become interested in the role and value of
research conversations and business biographies in the context of Economic
Geography research methods.
Her current research focuses on long term firm survival and the dynamics of
temporary coalitions that create contexts, when and where they are required,
to create and exploit knowledge in order to generate growth and renewal
capabilities. The empirical base for this work focuses on adopting a case
study methodology of extant West Midlands
based manufacturing firms established in the late eighteenth century.
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Professor John R. Bryson
John Bryson (BA
(Hons) TCD, PhD Leic., FRGS, FHEA) is Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography
at the University
of Birmingham. He is an internationally recognised
scholar who has made significant contributions to understanding and
explaining the complex ways in which economic activities are organized
through space and in place. Recently, he has made major contributions to
understanding the functional economic geographies of city regions by
exploring the dynamics of economic activities located in large and small
towns. In 2006, he undertook a major study for Advantage West Midlands (AWM)
into the functioning economic geography of the West
Midlands region as part of the development of the Regional
Economic Strategy (RES). This was the first academic study to explore the
economic role played by market towns in the context of a city region.
John is currently undertaking projects for AWM and DCLG into the dynamics of
business and professional services located in small towns and cities in the
West Midlands and he is also PI on a £3.7 million research project
funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (UK)
that is exploring sustainability, innovation and economic competitiveness in
a regional context. He has published seven books and over 120 journal
articles, research reports, and books chapters and he is also editor of the
book series on Services, Economy and Innovation published by Edward Elgar. He
is Vice-President of RESER, the leading international research association on
services and expertise-driven economies, Director of the Aston Reinvestment
Trust, the UK’s
leading Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), and is Independent
Chair of the Worcestershire Partnership Climate Change Task Group. He has
also advised the Finnish Presidency of the EU (2006) and he is currently
working with the European Commission (2003-) and AWM on issues related to
regional development and national competitiveness.
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Aswatha Kumar M
Aswatha Kumar M. received his B.E. degree from the University of Mysore, M.E.
from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
He served as lecturer and selection grade lecturer at the University BDT
College Engineering, Davangere, Karnataka Polytechnic Mangalore, DRR
Polytechnic, Davangere, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science
& Eng, JNN College of Engineering, Shimoga,
India. Currently he is Professor & Head,
Department of Information Science & Eng, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of
Technology, Bangalore, India He is a member of the I.E.E.E, I.S.T.E
and Fellow of the I.E.T.E. He has
published extensively at both international conferences and journals. His
research interests include digital geometry, computer vision, image
processing, graphics, evolutionary computing and Knowledge Management.
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Satyadhyan R.Chickerur
S.R.Chickerur received his B.E degree from Karnataka
University in 1997, M.Tech from Visveswaraiah Technological University
in year 2002 and currently
pursuing PhD from the same university. He has served as lecturer in various
engineering colleges in India.
Presently he is with Department of Information science and Engineering,
M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore,
India as
Assistant Professor. He is a member of ISTE. He has published his research
papers in various international conferences and has presented tutorials at
International conferences. Additionally he is a referee for various
international journals & textbooks. His research interests include PACS,
Medical image processing, computer vision, soft computing in image processing
and Knowledge Managemen
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Dr. Milly Perry
Milly Perry is currently the Head of the Information Technology School, the
Business Development director as well as the Research director and Chief
Knowledge Officer at the Open University of Israel. Two years ago she was
appointed to the steering committee of Israel's National Science Council
dedicated to developing the country's national science database. Through
these and her PhD. in Information science, KM expertise (Bar Ilan University,
Israel) She have gained unique expertise in higher education knowledge
management and ICT change management; Formal e-learning program development
for managers in technological issues and Life-long-learning projects in
industry and the private sector; She has deep understanding and experience of
European and American science policy and research administration, Technology
transfer and IPR. She is involves at knowledge management international
projects (German, France) and other innovation-related activities. She led
Strategies processes, best-practice mapping and dissemination, organizational
learning processes, after-action review and knowledge-management support
systems, her research interest are: Knowledge Management, Research
administration and science policy. Change Management, Higher Education,
Information Technology, Technology Transfer and Industry-academia interface.
Dr. Perry serves as "aKadeMya" CEO, (CoP for managers and scholars implementing Knowledge
Management in Higher education, (sponsored by Microsoft-Israel) leading KM in
the Israeli's Higher Education system and Member at the Editorial committee
of "The Israeli
KM book". She is the Chief Knowledge Officer of the Israeli
Knowledge managers' CoP and a Management committee member at The European
network for Science and Technology Research in Knowledge - base Economy
(STRIKE) and a scientific committee member and speaker at KM conferences
world-wide.
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Assistant Professor
Maria do Rosário Cabrita
Maria do Rosário Cabrita is researcher at the Universidade Nova de
Lisboa and Assistant Professor at the Portuguese
Banking Management
School and Universidade
Lusíada, in Lisbon.
Involved in international projects, she also works
as consultant in private and public sector. She has several years of experience in
various management positions in international banks. She is member of the
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Business and Systems Research
and has published several articles in the intellectual capital field.
Maria
received her PhD in Business Administration from the Institute
of Economics and Business
Administration, Lisbon
Technical University.
Her research interests are focused on concepts such as strategy, intellectual
capital and human capital. In January 2005, Maria do Rosário received
the Edvinson-Saint Onge’s best paper award at the 26th
McMaster World Congress.
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Dr
Jose M. Viedma
Jose M. Viedma is a Doctor of Industrial Engineering, a Graduate in Economics
and Professor of Business Administration at the U.P.C., Polytechnic
University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He
teaches on the subject of knowledge management, intellectual capital
management and organisational learning. He has held top executive
positions in computer services and management consultancy firms. He is
the president of “Intellectual Capital Management Systems”, the
founding partner of “ M & A Fusiones y Adquisiciones”
and the Independent Director of Interlace. He is a regular
speaker in International conferences and congresses on Knowledge and
Intellectual Capital Management such as World Congress on Intellectual
Capital and Innovation and European Conference on Knowledge Management. His
current field of research and interest is focused on knowledge management and
intellectual capital management and he has consulted and developed management
frameworks and systems world wide on those matters. More information is
available in the web-sites: http://intellectualcapitalmanagementsystems.com
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Updated 19 February 2008
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