IT Outsourcing Management: Panel Discussion

      

February 19, 2007

25 East Jackson, Boulevard, Room 342, 3rd Floor

 
 
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Kevin C. Desouza - www.kevindesouza.com

Dr. Kevin C. Desouza is as Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the College of Engineering. He serves as the Director of the Institute for National Security Education and Research, an inter-disciplinary university-wide initiative. He is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Innovation Management (I3M) and is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, both housed at the University of Washington. His immediate past position was the Director of the Institute for Engaged Business Research, a think-tank of the Engaged Enterprise, a strategy consulting firm with expertise in the areas of knowledge management, crisis management, strategic deployment of information systems, and government and competitive intelligence assignments. Dr. Desouza founded the Engaged Enterprise in 2003. He previously held management and technical positions in a several organizations. He has authored Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence (Quorum Books, 2002), co-authored The Outsourcing Handbook (Kogan Page, 2006), Managing Information in Complex Organizations (M.E. Sharpe, 2005) and Engaged Knowledge Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and edited New Frontiers of Knowledge Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Agile Information Systems (Butterworth Heinemann, 2007). His latest book is Managing Knowledge Security: Strategies for Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Assets (Kogan Page, forthcoming). In addition, he has published over 100 articles in prestigious practitioner and academic journals. His work has also been featured by a number of publications such as the Washington Internet Daily, Optimize, Computerworld, KM Review, Information Outlook, and Human Resource Management International Digest. Dr. Desouza has advised major international corporations and government organizations on strategic management issues ranging from knowledge management, to competitive intelligence, and crisis management. He is frequently an invited speaker on a number of cutting-edge business and technology topics for national and international, industry and academic audiences. Dr. Desouza has received over $575,000 of research funding from both private and government organizations. Dr. Desouza is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2007, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders, 1st Edition, 2006, Who's Who in the World, 23rd Edition, 2006, and Who's Who in America, 59th Edition, 2004; 60th Edition, 2005, 61st Edition, 2006.

 

 

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Richard Howe, Vice President
Application Solutions Center, SAIC
IT Infrastructure Outsourcing and Software Application Outsourcing

Richard Howe has over 20 years progressive experience in information technology at Fortune 50 companies. He currently manages delivery of application services from SAIC's Naperville, IL, office to oil refineries and chemical plants globally and to Transportation & Logistics, and Retail businesses in the United States. Before joining SAIC in 2000, he was responsible for managing and aggregating application services in BP's downstream businesses in North America from internal and outsourced providers. Rich graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS degree in Accounting and completed an MBA program at DePaul University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

John McCord PAConsulting.com  

John has over 36 years of operational and management experience in IT, finance, HR and line operations.  Since joining PA 6 years ago, John has specialized in the commericial , financial and business aspect of complex sourcing engagements. John advises clients in all phases of the sourcing lifecycle from strategy development through to ongoing governance, relationship, contract and service management. John’s particular focus is on strategy, vendor selection and stakeholder value in the transaction

 

 

 

 
Organizer
   

Prof. Olayele Adelakun

Co-Chairman, Organizing Committee

Associate Professor DePaul University.

Olayele Adelakun is an Associate professor of MIS at DePaul University Chicago, Illinois, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems (CTI). His research focuses on IT Outsourcing, ERP systems implementation, and Information systems quality and Evaluation. He has conducted case studies in both medium size companies and multinational companies in Finland and the United States. He was the chairman of the 2001 and 2002 IT outsourcing conference and the moderator of the 2003 offshore outsourcing panel discussion at DePaul University. He started the study abroad program in the school CTI in 1993. He has also given several executives presentation. He has published over thirty articles in conferences, books and journals. He holds an M.S. in Information Processing Science from University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland

 

 
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