Technology and Information Management Group

The group’s research interests span two broad but interlinked areas, concerned with the management of:

• Technology; including operations management and innovation, and
• Information; including information and communication technologies, information systems, e-business and knowledge management.

The common thread binding these two areas together is the use of technology (in its broadest sense) to improve organisational performance. Our research is concerned with the impact of technology at an individual, organisational and societal level. Current research activity covers areas as diverse as communication in virtual workplaces, fuel cell technology and the use of ICTs in SMEs.

The group’s research is usually applied in nature and links with industry and commerce are strong. The group has a healthy track record of income generation from funding bodies as diverse as the EU, the Leverhulme Trust, the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants as well as directly from industry.

Group members frequently collaborate with industrial and commercial research partners, as well as with academic colleagues at other institutions (both in the UK and further afield) and in other departments within Royal Holloway. Group members are also active within the academic research community, making regular contributions at conferences and in the pages of the leading academic journals in their fields. » 2008/9 TIM Annual Report

Members of Staff

• Dr Edward Bernroider
• Dr José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachon
• Dr Romano Dyerson (also a member of Strategy & International Business)
• Dr Simon Foley
• Catherine Harbor
• Dr G Harindranath
• Dr Ashok Jashapara (also a member of Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management)
• Dr Alan Pilkington

Recent Research Projects

• SWAN Innovation Award for Virtual Classroom cooperation between Kingston University, RHUL and St George's Hospital, May 2008 - (Duska Rosenberg, Mirja Lievonen and Joe Reddington)
• 'What Makes Space Creative', Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2006 (Mirja Lievonen)
• 'ICT adoption and use in the South-West London and Thames Valley Region', WestFocus 2005-6 (G. Harindranath, David Barnes and Romano Dyerson)
• 'Conceptualising Work Environment in terms of Space', Academy of Finland, 2004 (Mirja Lievonen)

Research Networks and Centres

• Enterprise Engineering Research Initiative
• iCOM Research Centre (information, computing and communication)
• Ifdentity and Unesco
• PRISM – Project for Research into ICT in Small and Medium-sized enterprises (Dr David Barnes, Dr Romano Dyerson & Dr G. Harindranath)

Group members teach on a number of courses within Technology and Information Management subject areas on the School’s general management programmes at both post-graduate (MBA International Management and MSc International Management) and undergraduate (BSc Management) levels. The group’s flagship programme is the MSc in Business Information Systems taught jointly with the Department of Computer Science. Teaching on this programme is enhanced through the Collaborative Learning Laboratory (ColLab) our state-of-the-art technology-enhanced learning facility.