Mr Ian Owens

Lecturer
Location: MH216
E: i.owens@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785915
Informatics and Systems Engineering


Current activities

  • Currently working on a number of projects for the MOD
  • Teaches on Masters Courses
  • Engages in consultancy work for the MOD and the wider Defence community
  • Involved in projects looking at Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Modelling using MODAF
  • Interested in decision-making
  • Sense making and related concepts.

Clients

Clients include the British Ministry of Defence, QinetiQ, and IBM.

Background

  • Over the last 15 years has been actively engaged in research and teaching at a number of Universities in the UK
  • Worked in Sheffield University, University of Glamorgan, Napier University, Swansea University and now lectures at Cranfield University
  • Has written a range of research papers, books, and reports on topics related to information systems
  • Provided advice and consultancy to a number of governmental and non-governmental organisations including the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Welsh National Assembly, and the UK Ministry of Defence.

Qualifications

BA (Upper 2nd Class, Politics) University of Sheffield, 1990
PgCert (IT and Urban History) University of Leicester, 1992
MSc (Information Management) University of Sheffield, 1993

Selected publications

  • 2007: A Simple Tool to Assist in Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions ", Journal of Decision Systems, 16(4) pp 451 - 468. [with McAvoy, J. & Sammon, D]
  • 2006: Towards the development of a simple tool to assist in agile methodology decisions: Agile adoption matrix. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden June 2006 [with McAvoy, J. & Sammon, D.]
  • 2004: Information systems evaluation and the information systems development process. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 276 – 282 [with Beynon-Davies, P & Williams, M.D]Emerald highly commended paper award
  • 2004: ‘The electronic procurement of ideas’, Int. J. Electronic Business, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.3-19. [with Beynon-Davies, P., Williams, M.D., & Hill, R.]
  • 2004: ‘Beyond Access: Bridging the Digital Divide’, The proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Information Systems, Turku, Finland 13th – 15th June 2004 [with Beynon-Davies, P, Williams, M.D, & Hill, R.A.]
  • 2003: Electronic Consultation at the National Assembly for Wales. In Ciborra, C, Mercurio, R, De Marco, M, Matrinez, M & Carigani, A (eds) The Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Information Systems [with Beynon-Davies, P, Williams, M.D., & Hill, R] Nominated for best paper award