Wendy Currie
- Director, International Policy and Technology Research Unit
BSc (Kingston), PhD (Henley Mgt College/Brunel)
Biography
Prof. Wendy L. Currie is Director and Co-founder of the International Policy and Technology Research Unit. The International Policy and Technology Research unit is cross-disciplinary and has the backing from Microsoft and their coalition of partners (GE, Accenture, Phililps, COSIR) and also by the charities, the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Trust. Prof. Currie was award her PhD in Management in 1989. She is currently Professor in Information Systems at Warwick Business School. Previously, she was Professor in Information Systems at Brunel University, and was awarded a Personal Chair in Management at the University of Sheffield in 1997. She has obtained research funding from the ESRC, EPSRC, European Union and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants for studies on policy, strategy and management of information and communications technology (ICT). She is currently on the editorial board of 10 scholarly journals, including Information Systems Research, the IEEE TMIS, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems; and formally for Management Information Systems Quarterly and the European Journal of Information Systems. She served as European, Middle East and Africa representative for the Association for Information Systems, and was joint Conference Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems held in Arizona in Dec 2009. Her research is published in the information systems and management journals and she works with several 'blue chip' companies on various research projects. She is currently working on a large project with Microsoft and the Johns Hopkins University of Enabling Technologies in Healthcare. This complements her work on the National Programme for IT in the UK NHS. She is also working on projects on governance, regulation and compliance in the financial services sector.
Research interests
International Policy and Technology Research Unit. This research unit focuses on the intersection between policy and technology. Key projects include promoting the TEMPEST model across the European Union 27 member states. A recent study applies TEMPEST to 12 EU countries to evaluate the opportunities and risks of moving towards eHealth. Sociological theories in information systems; IT-enabled transformation in healthcare; e-business models (service oriented architectures); IT and compliance in financial services
Teaching activity this year
Masters Portfolio
- IB92G0 Foundations of Information Systems module leader
- IB96F0 Business Systems Integration and Consultancy
Publications
Journal articles
- A National Program for IT in the Organisational Field of Healthcare: An example of conflicting institutional logics. Journal Of Information Technology 22 (2007): 235-248.
- Value creation in Web services: an integrative model. Journal of Strategic Information Systems 15 (2006): 153-174.
- Towards the ASP E-Business Model: A conceptual Framework for Mapping ASP Specific Value Propositions. Journal of Internet Commerce 4 (2005): 79-101.
- A conceptual framework for mapping the ASP value proposition. Journal of Internet Commerce 4 (2005): 79-101.
- From application outsourcing to infrastructure management: extending the offshore outsourcing service portfolio. European Management Journal 23 (2005): 133-144.
