It summarises the results of the work that Roger undertook as a Lecturer in Information Systems in the early years of the 21st century while at the Cranfield School of Management that is captured in detail in reports and papers stored on our PUBLICATIONS site.
The PUBLICATIONS section of the Elvin Family website is now ready. All of Christina and Roger’s writings that are available (i.e. that are not client confidential) are ready to view. Find out more …
Christina has written (and is still writing) some 20 books on subjects ranging from children’s adventure stories to complementary therapies to health and well-being. She has established her own site on which she makes these books freely available in both e-book and print formats.
Click HERE to visit her site.
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Roger and Ciaron have both been exploring the origins of the Elvin line. The master copy is maintained on Roger’s Ancestry account. The version held on this site is a copy thereof.
An interesting factoid is that through our Heeley ancestral line we have a link to the Kilner line (of Kilner jar fame) which has a supposed link to royal ancestry. If this is the case then so do we!!
Roger and Christina have produced many papers, books, articles, presentations etc. over the years. Some of these have been formally published, some have not and there are still some undecided. We are taking this opportunity to put them together into single repository, mainly for our own gratification but also in the hope that others may find them a worthwhile read.
From the time we recorded our first holiday together with our Box Brownie, Roger and Christina have photographed a lifetime of holidays and events. The Box Brownie has been replaced over the years by a variety of cameras, both film and now digital. We have boxes of negatives and slides plus an unsorted digital repository on our NAS server. We can’t hope to catalogue them all so this on-line library is intended to provide some order to the highlights of the collection.
Roger was a Lecturer in Information Systems from 1997 to 2003 at the Cranfield School of Management in the UK. The hot topic at the time Roger joined the Cranfield SoM Information Systems Group was ‘Benefits Management’. The continual failure of IS/IT projects to deliver their projected benefits to their sponsoring organisations was a recurring theme in both academic and commercial literature. Benefits Management was conceived and developed by Professor John Ward and his team in the Cranfield SoM Information Systems Research Centre as an approach to overcome the limitations of project management methods as then generally applied to IS/IT projects.
Joining with John Ward and his team, Roger spent his 7 years at Cranfield researching and lecturing on project management methods as applied to IS/IT projects. Working initially with John Ward and then more closely with Andrew Davies, who joined the group as a Visiting Professor, Roger developed the initial ideas of Benefits Management into Benefits Assurance, complemented by an ‘IT & Change Framework’, which formalises the structure of IS/IT projects.
