Warwick Business School Appoints Arthur Andersen Chair in Information Management and e-business

Dr Leslie Willcocks has been appointed to the new Arthur Andersen Chair in Information Management and e-business. He joins WBS from Templeton College, Oxford where he was Fellow in Information Management and Reader in Management Studies. He remains Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology, Visiting Professor at Erasmus in Rotterdam and Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne, Australia..

Dr Willcocks will work with Arthur Andersen and other disciplines within the school with particular focus on the MBA.

Dr Willcocks says "It is a real pleasure to be joining a world class business school. The area of information management and e-business has been hugely hyped in the past few years and I am looking forward to pinpointing its real significance and providing a more in-depth, researched, independent, relevant perspective than that available from so many other sources today."

It has recently been announced by PricewaterhouseCoopers that Dr Leslie Willcocks is one of the four winners in their 2001 Outsourcing World Achievement Award. The award is made to distinguished members of the international business, government and academic communities for their contributions to the outsourcing industry.

The academic award was made to Dr Willcocks who was cited as: Highly regarded in the international business and government communities for his work as a researcher, author, speaker and consultant on IT outsourcing, e-business, information management and IT evaluation. He is considered by many as one of the few independent thinkers on the complex subject of outsourcing. His groundbreaking research has helped determine fundamental drivers of success in IT outsourcing as well as establish key performance criteria linked to value delivery.