Venters, Will


Dr Will Venters  

Department

Position held

Department of Management

Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) (Department of Management)

Lecturer

Experience keywords:

cloud computing; grid computing; sociotechnical approaches to information systems; knowledge management; software engineering; action research; IS development methodologies; information systems development; utility computing

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Dr Venters' general research interests lie in the development and use of IT technologies to support collaborative working. He is interested in knowledge management and how IT systems are developed and employed to support collaborative working and communities of practice in international and inter-organisational domains. He has undertaken research in financial services standards, the UK construction industry and global NGOs. He is currently researching the development and use of Grid computing technology among experimental particle physicists for the LHC experiments at CERN.

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7852 3619

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2012

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and 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 . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781137005571

Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. and 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

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2012) Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part four: innovation. Accenture In association with The Outsourcing Unit London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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

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

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2012) Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part two: challenges. Accenture In association with The Outsourcing Unit London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2012) Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part three: impact. Accenture In association with The Outsourcing Unit London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Willcocks, Leslie and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar (2012) Cloud sourcing: implications for managing the IT function. In: Kotlarsky, Julia and Oshri, Ilan and Willcocks, Leslie P., (eds.) The dynamics of global sourcing: perspectives and practices: 6th Global Sourcing Workshop 2012. Springer, pp. 142-163. ISSN 1865-1348

2011

Zheng, Yingqin and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony (2011) Collective agility, paradox and organizational improvisation: the development of a particle physics grid. Information systems journal, 21 (4). pp. 303-333. ISSN 1350-1917

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2011) Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part five: management. Accenture In association with The Outsourcing Unit London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Willcocks, Leslie P. and Venters, Will and Whitley, Edgar A. (2011) Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part one: promise. Accenture In association with The Outsourcing Unit London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2010

Venters, Will (2010) Knowledge management technology-in-practice: a social constructionist analysis of the introduction and use of knowledge management systems. Knowledge management research & practice, 8 (2). pp. 161-172. ISSN 1477-8238

Lichtner, Valentina and Petrakaki, Dimitra and Hibberd, Ralph and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Barber, Nick (2010) Mapping stakeholders for system evaluation - the case of the electronic prescription service in England. Studies in health technology and informatics, 160 (1). pp. 1221-1225. ISSN 0926-9630

Lichtner, Valentina and Petrakaki, Dimitra and Hibberd, Ralph and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Barber, Nick (2010) Mapping stakeholders for system evaluation - the case of the Electronic Prescription Service in England. In:MEDINFO 2010 (12 - 15 of September 2010 : Cape Town, South Africa).

2009

Mitev, Nathalie and Venters, Will (2009) Reflexive evaluation of an academic–industry research collaboration: can Mode 2 management research be achieved? Journal of management studies, 46 (5). pp. 733-754. ISSN 1467-6486

Zheng, Yingqin and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony (2009) Social capital in distributed system development: a case of grid development in particle physics. In:17th European Conference on Information Systems (8-10 June 2009 : Verona, Italy).

2008

Kyriakidou, Avgousta and Venters, Will (2008) Distributed development of large-scale global systems: exploring the collaborative practices of particle physicists as they develop a grid for the LHC. In:IFIP 8.2 Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) 2008 Workshop (13 December 2008 : Paris, France).

Venters, Will and Zheng, Yingqin and Cornford, Tony (2008) Grids: a knowledge infrastructure requiring a knowledge infrastructure [presentation]. In:UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM2008) (8-11 September 2008 : Edinburgh, UK).

2007

Venters, Will and Wood, Bob (2007) Degenerative structures which inhibit the emergence of communities of practice: a case study of knowledge management in the British Council. Information systems journal, 17 (4). pp. 349-368. ISSN 1350-1917

Zheng, Yingqin and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony (2007) Distributed development and scaled agility: improvising a grid for particle physics. Information Systems and Innovation Group Working Paper series, 163. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Venters, Will and Kyriakidou, Avgousta (2007) The multi-disciplinary development of collaborative grids: the social shaping of a grid for healthcare. In:15th European Conference on Information Systems (7-9 June 2007 : St Gallen, Switzerland).

Kyriakidou, Avgousta and Venters, Will (2007) The multi-disciplinary development of collaborative grids: the social shaping of mammogrid. Working paper series, 154. The Information Systems Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Scott, Susan V. and Venters, Will (2007) The practice of e-science and e-social science: method, theory, and matter. In: Crowston, Kevin and Sieber, Sandra and Wynn, Eleanor, (eds.) Virtuality and virtualization: IFIP working groups 8.2 on information systems and organizations and 9.5 on virtuality and society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 267-279. ISBN 9780387730240

Zheng, Yingqin and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony (2007) Agility, improvisation, or enacted emergence. In:International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2007 (December 9 - 12, 2007 : Montréal, Québec, Canada).

Venters, Will and Zheng, Yingqin and Cornford, Tony (2007) Collaborative construction of Grid: usability within Particle Physics. In:Third International Conference on e-Social Science (7 - 9 October 2007 : Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA).

Scott, Susan V. and Venters, Will (2007) Virtuality and virtualization the practice of e-science and e-social science: method, theory, and matter. In: Crowston, K. and Sieber, Sandra and Wynn, E., (eds.) Virtuality and virtualization: proceedings of the international federation of information processing working groups 8.2 on information systems and organizations and 9.5 on virtuality and society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, O. Springer, pp. 167-280. ISBN 9780387730240

Venters, Will and Zheng, Yingqin (2007) Pegasus: an information systems research study of Grids for the Large Hadron Collider. , University of Surrey, UK

Venters, Will and Zheng, Yingqin (2007) Users, usability and grids: introducing Pegasus, a social study of the development and use of GridPP. , Manchester, UK

Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Lancaster, Mark and Zheng, Yingqin and Kyriakidou, Avgousta (2007) Studying the usability of grids: ethnographic research of the UK particle physics community. , Nottingham, UK

2006

Scott, Susan V. and Venters, Will (2006) The practice of e-science and e-social science: method, theory, and matter. Working paper series, 151. Information Systems Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony (2006) Introducing pegasus: an ethnographic research project studying the use of grid technologies by the UK particle physics community. In:Second International Conference on e-Social Science (28-30 Jun 2006 : Manchester, UK).

Mondale, Jennifer and Scott, Susan V. and Venters, Will (2006) Knowledge management as an image of the organization: industry standards and the processes of knowing in credit risk management. In:14th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2006) (12-14 Jun 2006 : Göteborg, Sweden).

Venters, Will and Giustiniano, L. and Lundell, B. (2006) Post-PhD research - the trials and tribulations of beginning post-doctoral research following a PhD. In:14th European Conference on Information Systems (12-14 Jun 2006 : Göteborg, Sweden).

Venters, Will (2006) The use of technology within knowledge management: a review. Journal of intelligent systems, 15 (1). pp. 329-356. ISSN 0334-1860

Venters, Will (2006) Software engineering: theory and practice. University of London, London, UK

Venters, Will (2006) Knowledge management: the fad that forgot technology. In:International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) (20-22 Mar 2006 : Warwick, UK).

2005

Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Cushman, Michael (2005) Knowledge about sustainability: SSM as a method for conceptualising the UK construction industry's knowledge environment. CIT journal of computing and information technology, 13 (2). pp. 137-148. ISSN 1330-1136

Venters, Will and Darking, Mary and Light, Ben and Pries Heje, Jan and Lundell, Bjorn (2005) Panel: jumping the high-jump and landing in the sand - the issues involved in moving from being a Ph.D student to being a full member of the IS community. In:Thirteenth European Conference on Information Systems (26-28 May 2005 : Regensburg, Germany).

Venters, Will and Wood, Bob (2005) Organizational knowledge, learning and capabilities in action: the case of the British Council. In:The Sixth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (17-19 Mar 2005 : Waltham, MA., USA).

2004

Cushman, Mike and Venters, Will (2004) Making sense of rich pictures: combining SSM and oval mapping. In:Operational Research Society 46th Annual Conference (OR46) (7-9 Sep 2004 : York, UK).

Mitev, Nathalie N. and Venters, Will (2004) Knowledge management practices for sustainable construction: political tensions in engineering ICT knowledge tools in the private and public sectors. In:Information, Knowledge and Management: Re-assessing the Role Of ICTS In Public And Private Organizations (3-5 March 2004 : Conference organised by Rome Superior School of Public Administration, ESRC, the University of Manchester, UMIST and the University of Pisa, L. Anselmi, A. Capocchi, D. O'Doherty, T. Vurdubakis and C. Westrup. Bologna, Italy).

2003

Venters, Will and Mitev, Nathalie N. and Cushman, Mike and Cornford, Tony (2003) Practiced knowledge and knowledgeable practices: weaving stories from engineering to culture. In:Social Study of Information Technology (SSIT) Workshop (24-25 April 2003 : London School of Economics, London, UK).

Venters, Will and Cushman, Mike and Cornford, Tony (2003) Motility of practiced knowledge: an exploration within the UK construction industry. In:4th European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (13-15 April, 2003 : Barcelona, Spain).

Venters, Will (2003) The introduction of knowledge management technology within the British Council: an action research study. University of Salford;Information Systems Institute

Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Cushman, Mike and Mitev, Nathalie N. (2003) A prologue for knowledge management: the case of sustainable construction practice. C-SanD Working Paper series. C-SanD, United Kingdom

2002

Venters, Will and Cushman, Mike and Cornford, Tony (2002) Inter-organisational motility of construction knowledge practices. In:e-sm@rt 2002: towards a European knowledge economy in the construction and related sectors (19-21 November 2002 : University of Salford, UK).

Venters, Will and Cushman, Mike and Cornford, Tony (2002) Creating knowledge for sustainability: using SSM for describing knowledge environments and conceptualising technological interventions. LSE Working Papers Series, 107. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Venters, Will and Cushman, Mike and Cornford, Tony (2002) Creating knowledge for sustainability: using SSM for knowledge mapping and conceptualising technological interventions. In:Third European conference on organizational knowledge, learning and capabilities (5-6 April 2002 : Athens, Greece).

Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Cushman, Mike (2002) The motility of construction knowledge. In:eSm@rt Conference 2002: Towards a European knowledge economy (18 - 21 September 2002 : Salford, UK).

Cushman, Mike and Venters, Will and Cornford, Tony and Mitev, Nathalie N. (2002) Understanding sustainability as knowledge practice. In:British Academy of Management Conference: Fast-tracking Performance through Partnerships (9-11 September 2002 : London, UK).

2001

Venters, Will (2001) Literature review for C-Sand: knowledge management. C-SanD, United Kingdom

Brophy, Richard and Venters, Will (2001) Work, the workspace and workspace portals. In: Beynon, Meurig and Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. and Dautenhahn, Kerstin, (eds.) Cognitive technologies: instruments of mind: 4th International Conference, CT 2001 Coventry, UK, August 6-9, 2001 Proceedings. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 421-431. ISBN 978-3-540-42406-2

2000

Venters, Will and Wood, J.R.G. (2000) Knowledge tools within a knowledge organisation. In:GEMISIS Millennium Conference (16-18 May 2000 : Salford, UK).

Venters, Will and Wood, J.R.G. (2000) Knowledge tools within a knowledge organisation: how to support communication in a multinational organisation. In:The 5th annual UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) Conference (26-28 April 2000 : University of Cardiff, Wales).

Venters, Will and Khalid, M. (2000) Working with a strategy: an action research project within the British Council. In:1st European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) (26-27 October 2000 : Bled School of Management, Bled, Slovenia).

1999

Venters, Will and Wood, J.R.G. (1999) Sharing knowledge in large multinational organisations. In:BITWorld 99 (30 June-2 July 1999 : Cape Town, South Africa).

Lichtner, Valentina and Venters, Will Journey to DOR: a retro science-fiction story on researching eprescribing. In: Researching the Future in Information Systems, (IFIP 8.2. Working Conference). , pp. 151-161. ISSN 978-3-642-21363-2

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