Leslie Willcocks

Leslie P. Willcocks is a world reowned Professor of Technology Work and Globalization and governor of the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the London School of Economics. He is considered an authority in the field of Outsourcing and recipient of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Michael Corbett Associates World Outsourcing Achievement Award for his contribution to the field.

Leslie has an international reputation for his work on e-business, information management, IT evaluation and information systems outsourcing. He is Professor of Outsourcing and Management Information Systems at London School of Economics, UK, ranked as first equal of the top three IS research institutions in the UKFact|date=April 2008. He is also Associate Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford, Visiting Professor In Information Systems at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Visitor at the Australian Graduate School of Management. He holds a doctorate in information systems from the University of Cambridge, and has been for the last 12 years Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology.

After graduating from Clare College, Cambridge, he worked for twelve years in accounting and management consultancy, for Touche Ross and several smaller firms, before heading a Research Centre at City University Business School, London. He moved to Oxford University in 1992 where he was for nine years Fellow and University Reader in Management Studies at Templeton College and Said Business School. He is co-author of 26 books, including Intelligent IT Outsourcing (Butterworth 2004) Global IT Outsourcing: In Search Of Business Advantage (Wiley, 2001), Second Wave ERP: Implementing For Effectiveness (OUP, 2003), Building The E-Business Infrastructure (Business Intelligence, 2001), Managing IT As A Strategic Resource (McGraw Hill, 1997), Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems (Wiley, 1998), Delivering IT and E-Business Value (Heinemann), and The Relationship Advantage: Information Technologies, Sourcing And Management (Oxford University Press). He has published over 180 papers in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, MISQ Executive, Journal of Management Studies, Communications Of The ACM, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

He is also a Board Director of Los Angeles-based hi-tech services provider MainPass Surveillance Technologies He is a regular keynote speaker at international practitioner and academic conferences, has extensive consulting experience, and is regularly retained as adviser by major corporations and government institutions. Recent clients have included Dupont, Transco, Fujitsu, Thames Water, IBM, Standard Chartered Bank, Lend Lease Corporation, ABNAmro Bank, HSBC, Experian, ANZ Bank, NatWest Bank, Royal Sun Alliance, Commonwealth Bank, Hewlett Packard, Compass, Australian Wheat Board, Norwich Union, Ericsson, Rotterdam Port Harbour Authority, WH Smith, Eli Lilley, Tata CS, RailTrack, and several government institutions in the UK, USA and Australia. In 1998 he served as expert witness on information management issues to the US Congressional Committee on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service. In March 2000 he provided evidence to the UK Government’s report on public sector IT projects published in March 2000. In May 2001 he was expert witness to the Senate Inquiry into the Australian central government’s IT outsourcing initiative.