Professor Leslie Willcocks

External Academic Activities, 1990-2007

  • Board member of Benchmarking Best Practice Group (HP, Fujitsu, CSC, BT, EDS, T-Systems) (2007-)

  • Retained as Expert Adviser by Amsphere Ltd. (2006-)

  • Board member HRO Association for Europe (2005-)

  • Expert witness for CSC-Sears/KMart outsourcing termination dispute (2006-7)

  • Co-chair Computer Weekly Business Value of IT Award (2006-7)

  • Member of the Research Council for the Michael Nobell Harriet Fulbright Institute of Business and Technology Management (2006-)

  • Member of Strategic Advisory Panel, British Computer Society (2003-6)

  • Board Director of the IT Registration Authority Board (2006-)

  • Assessor for Information Systems in the National Five Yearly Research Assessment Exercise For the University sector (2001)

  • External Quality Assessor for the Information Systems Department at London School of Economics (2001-2005).

  • Conference co-Chair on Interorganizational Systems, Rome September 15-16th 2001.

  • Elected International Programme Chair of the Ninth European Conference in Information Systems, Bled, June 2001.

  • Expert witness to senate inquiry into central government IT outsourcing, Australia, May 2001

  • Expert IT witness on impacts of tax legislation on the IT skills and services markets in the UK. Witness in the appeal to the European courts brought by the IT Professional Contractors Group against the UK government May 2000.

  • Advisor to National Audit Office May 2000 Report ‘Successful IT: Modernising Government in Action’ commissioned by H.M. Cabinet Office.

  • Chair of the Teaching Case Track and Programme Committee member for the Nineteenth International Conference in Information Systems, Helsinki, December 1998.

  • Chair of the Research-in-Progress Track, and Programme Committee member for the Sixth European Conference In Information Systems, Aix, France, June 1998.

  • Programme Chair, course designer and co-organiser of the First (US-based) Academy Of Information Systems PHD Colloquium, Cork, Eire, June 1997.

  • Panel Chair for ‘Pointers in Researching and Writing Up Case Studies’, Eighteenth International Conference in Information Systems, Atlanta, December 1997.

  • Chair of the Refereed Case Studies Track and Programme Committee member for Eighteenth International Conference in Information Systems, Atlanta, December 1997.

  • Expert IT witness to the US Congress National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service. Two days of evidence in Washington DC, January 1997.

  • From June 1995-June 1997: Visiting Professor in Information Systems, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Fellow of the British Computer Society.

  • Board member HR Outsourcing Association, Europe

  • From 1994: Distinguished Fellow, Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland.

  • Academic Referee/Reviewer: Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research (Associate Editor), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Public Administration, Informatization and The Public Sector, Omega, The Computer Journal, The Information Society, Sloan Management Review, British Journal of Management, New Technology, Work and Employment, Organization Studies, California Management Review, MISQ Executive.

  • Editorial Board - Journal of Outsourcing; IS and E-Business Management, Journal Of The Association For Information Systems; Journal of Information Technology Education, Associate Editor Information Systems Research. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Technology, Senior Editor MISQ Executive.

  • Advisory Board for Wiley Information Systems Series

  • Executive Committee Member for the Association for Information Technology.

  • Founder Member and Member of the Programme Committees for The First, Second, Third and Fourth European Conference on Information Systems, 1993 - 1996. Also reappointed as Programme Committee member for 1998, 2001.

  • Programme Committee for IFIP WG8.2 Conference Information Systems Development: Human, Social and Organizational Aspects, May 1993, Holland.

  • Steering Committee for the 1st, 2nd 3rd 4th 7th and 12th European Conferences in IT Evaluation 1993-6, 1999, 2004

  • Steering Committee for European Conference in Management, Leadership and Governance for Information Systems, July 2004.

  • Member Institute of Personnel Development, Association for Management Education and Development, Association for Information Technology, UK Association for Information Systems, The Academy For Information Systems. Fellow of British Computer Society

  • External Examiner for BSC and MSC in Computer Studies courses at Leeds University 1992-96.

  • External/Internal Examiner for 46 PHDs 1992-2006 - at Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, City University, AGSM - New South Wales, Universiteit van Amsterdam, London, Warwick, LSE, Brunel and Aston Universities.

  • Member of the informal UK IS Professors Group, pressing for better recognition nationally of the field of study.

  • Invited speaker on two panels: ‘Risk Mitigation in IT Outsourcing’; Academics in Mid-Career’; at the Nineteenth International Conference in Information Systems, Helsinki, December 1998.

  • Invited Panel speaker on ‘Knowledge Transfer’ at the Strategic Information management conference (SIM), Helsinki, 11th. December 1998.

  • Panel Speaker on ‘IS Outsourcing’ at the Seventeenth. International Conference in Information Systems, Cleveland , USA, December 16-18th 1996.

  • Panel speaker on 'Innovation, Information Systems and Organisation Studies: Missed Opportunities and Future Directions' at Thirteenth International Conference in Information Systems, Dallas, USA, December 13-16th, 1992.

  • Chairman of 12 external Conferences including: Managing the IT Investment (Business Intelligence and Computer Weekly: 120 delegates), Evaluating and Managing the IT Investment (Unicom Seminars: 80 plus delegates). The Business Value of IT (Business Intelligence: 135 delegates).

  • Keynote Speaker/Seminar Leader at 280 plus business and academic conferences in the 1992-2006 period. As recent examples only:

    • Keynote: Logicacmg conference, Paris, 9-10th May 2007 (60 plus delegates)

    • Keynote speaker Global Sourcing: Services, Knowledge and Innovation Val d’Isere March 10-13th (28 delegates)

    • Keynote speaker TNTPost conference The Hague (80 plus delegates)

    • Keynote speaker Sogeti conference March 8th 2007 Utrecht (55 delegates)

    • Keynote NGI conference –Netherlands – The Future of IT Capabilities and Skills 12th December 2006 Utrecht (100 plus delegates)

    • Keynote Sogeti Conference on IT for the Future. Versailles, November 2006(65 delegates)

    • Keynote speaker - Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Venice, 5-9th October. 2006 (200 plus delegates

    • Keynote speaker – Gartner conference on Outsourcing, London June 2006 (600 plus participants)

    • Keynote Speaker – Business Proformance Conference on Business Process management, London July 2006 (100 plus delegates)

    • Keynote speaker at Financial Times Conference on Offshoring June 2006 (200 plus delegates)

    • Keynote speaker IFIPWG8.3 Decision Support Systems, Prato, 1-3rd July 2004.

    • Keynote Speaker European Outsourcing Summit, June/July, Paris 2003 (140 participants)

    • Keynote Speaker IBM Conference On Technical Leadership Programme, May 10-12th 2004, Montpellier (200 plus participants).

    • Keynote speaker IACCM Business Process Outsourcing conference, Business Design Centre, London October 13th 2003 (145 plus delegates).

    • Keynote speaker IT Outsourcing in Europe. CSC Research Interest Group, Paris, October 25th, 2003 (45 delegates) and London May 2004, (50 plus delegates)

    • Keynote speaker at Ministry of Defence Annual Conference, October 15th 2003 Cardiff, 250 plus delegates

    • Course designer and leader - IT management For Business Executives - 2 day programme for the New Zealand Health Department, Auckland, 22-23 April 2002, 35 management delegates.

    • Keynote - Offshore Outsourcing Update 2002. Barbican Centre, 22nd October, 2002. Sponsored conference, 120 delegates.

    • Business Process Outsourcing Seminar - Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, 23rd October 2002. Sponsored by TCS and IRR. Update for senior decision-makers.

    • Course designer and leader - Leading IT For Business Value, January 29th 2003. Public programme at Warwick Business School. 30 delegates.

    • Course designer and leader - Developing IT For Business Value: Project Management and Building Infrastructure, January 30th 2003. Public programme at Warwick Business School. 30 delegates.

    • Course designer and leader - Managing Strategic IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Warwick Business School public programme, January 31st 2003, 36 delegates.

    • Keynote – Society for Information Management conference, Barcelona, December 2002. 32 delegates.

    • Keynote – Conference on Return on IT Investments, Copenhagen February 2003, sponsored by Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. 162 delegates.

    • Keynote – UK Association For Information Systems Conference, Warwick University, April 2003. 95 participants.

    • Keynote - European Outsourcing Conference, Brussels, June 3rd 2003 – for Michael Corbett Associates. 150 plus delegates.

    • Keynote at the World Outsourcing Summit, Orlando, February, 2002 (530 delegates) and also February 2004 (450 delegates).

    • Keynote at The International Outsourcing Conference, Seoul, Korea November 2001 (230 delegates).

  • Organizing Committee member of the UK Information Systems PHD Colloquium 1993-96. This has run annually and is now in its tenth year. Held at City, Leeds, Cranfield, Warwick, Bath and Southampton Universities. Also facilitator and supervisor 1992-95. The 2-day Colloquium tutors up to 45 selected UK PHD students in their second or third year. Participation is from most major UK universities.

  • Represented Templeton on an IT evaluation module developed with Milan, Copenhagen and Poitiers Universities. EEC Funded initiative. Module published in May 1993.

  • Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1991.