EMCIS2006: Keynotes

Professor John M Sharp
B.Eng., Ph.D.,C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E., M.IFRIM

Keynote Lecture: Academe working with the industry.

 

John is Professor of Organisational Excellence, formerly in the Department of Aeronautical, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and more recently in the School of Management at the University of Salford in the UK.  Following an apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce Aero Engines he completed a thin sandwich B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Bradford University. This was followed by an industrial Ph.D. in high speed textile machinery.  He then joined Unilever where he was a Manager responsible for introducing new technology, manufacturing and maintenance systems into Unilever operating companies in Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America. 

Professor Sharp has been at the University of Salford for the past sixteen years and teaches operations management subjects. He is the founding director of COrE (Research Centre for Organisational Excellence) which is a large research group which investigates the key enablers for High Performance Organisations (HPOs) and is funded from academic enterprise activities.  The research is centred on the role of the People-Process interface in order to make improvements in business performance, with particular emphasis on quality, (including continuous improvement) business and maintenance processes. He is vice president of IFRIM (International Foundation for Research In Maintenance).

He has been involved in research projects valued at over £4 million and has published over 100 papers in books, journals and conferences related to his research and consultancy interests.

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Professor Ashok Ranchhod
B.Sc., M.Sc., MBA, PhD, FCIM
 

Keynote Lecture: Marketing in the Digital Age
 

Ashok is Faculty Professor in Marketing at Southampton Business School. Ashok has published extensively on e marketing in Journals such as the International Journal of Advertising and the Journal of Information Technology. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development and the Journal of e-Commerce Research. He has undertaken consultancy work for major organisations and has written case studies on companies in several different sectors of industry for the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Prior to his work in academia, he was the Managing Director of Microplants, a biotechnology company based in Derbyshire.

In addition to the published papers he has received prizes for his papers at the Academy of Marketing and The British Academy of Management. Currently his research is into e-commerce and corporate social responsibility. He leads a team of research students in these areas. Ashok is a Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and a Senior Examiner at Henley Management College. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Angers (France), The Mudra Institute of Integrated Marketing Communications Ahmedabad (MICA, India) and Napier University (Scotland). In recognition of his services to business and marketing he was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2000. In his quest to link academic work to business he has generated substantial research funds for the Business School. Ashok is working on the second edition of his book, Marketing Strategies: A 21st Century Approach published by Pearson Education.
 

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Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers

Keynote Lecture: Creating and Enacting “Personalized” Software Development Processes

 

 

Brian is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author or editor of 27 books and is well-known for his work in OO and AO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE, FAME), OO metrics and metamodelling. More recently, he has chaired workshops at OOPSLA and AOIS on agent-oriented methodologies. He is Editor of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and on the editorial board of Journal of Object Technology, Software and Systems Modelling and International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of London for his research contributions in object-oriented methodologies.