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.
To learn more, click HERE to go to the Benefits Assurance site.
