Dr Will Venters

Lecturer in Information Systems

Biography

Dr Venters has an international reputation for his work in distributed systems development, Grid and Cloud Computing and Knowledge Management. He holds a doctorate from the University of Salford, and a first-class degree in computer science from the University of Manchester. He has researched the organisation of distributed work and systems in various organisations including government-related organisations, the construction industry, financial services, health, and most recently among particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He has undertaken consultancy for a wide range of companies, and has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management Research & Practice. He is a member of the board of Youthnet, the UK's first online charity, and the former chair of a national volunteering charity.

Research interests

• Cloud computing
• Distributed organising
• Information systems development
• Software engineering
• Sociotechnical approaches to information systems
• Knowledge management
• Action research

Teaching

• IS471 Innovating Organisational Information Technology
• IS554 Seminar for Research Students in Information Systems
• The Outsourcing Enterprise: From Cost Management to Cloud Services (Executive Summer School)

Recent publications

• Shifting to cloud services: current challenges and future opportunities
  Willcocks, Leslie P., Venters, Will, Whitley, Edgar A. and Hindle, John (2012) Shifting to cloud services: current challenges and future opportunities. In: Lacity, Mary C. and Willcocks, Leslie P., (eds.) Advanced outsourcing practice: rethinking ITO, BPO and cloud services. Technology, work and globalization . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781137005571
• Cloud on the landscape - promises and challenges
  Venters, Will, Whitley, Edgar A., Willcocks, Leslie P. and Hindle, John (2012) Cloud on the landscape - promises and challenges. In: Willcocks, Leslie P. and Lacity, Mary C., (eds.) The new IT outsourcing landscape: from innovation to cloud services. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230358812
• Interventionist grid development projects: a research framework based on three frames
  Venters, Will and Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, Avgousta (2012) Interventionist grid development projects: a research framework based on three frames. Information technology & people, 25 (3). pp. 300-326. ISSN 0959-3845
• A critical review of cloud computing: researching desires and realities
  Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2012) A critical review of cloud computing: researching desires and realities. Journal of information technology, 27 (3). pp. 179-197. ISSN 0268-3962
• Cloud sourcing: implications for managing the IT function
  Willcocks, Leslie, Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar (2012) Cloud sourcing: implications for managing the IT function. In: Kotlarsky, Julia, Oshri, Ilan and Willcocks, Leslie P., (eds.) The dynamics of global sourcing: perspectives and practices: 6th Global Sourcing Workshop 2012. Lecture notes in business information processing (130). Springer, pp. 142-163. ISBN 9783642339196

Complete list of publications

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