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Alan Thorogood

Alan Thorogood - Australian School of Business 

PhD, University of NSW and University of Sydney

MBA, University of NSW and University of Sydney

Senior Visiting Fellow

Phone:

+61 2 9385 9729 

Fax:

+61 2 9385 5722 

Room:

568 

Address:

Australian School of Business building

 

Dr Alan Thorogood is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He is the course leader for IT strategy on AGSM MBA programmes, a regular contributor to Executive Education for strategy execution and is an executive coach.

 

Alan's PhD and research exploring alignment, governance and project performance of major investments appears in peer-reviewed international conferences, journal papers and books.

 

With a successful career as a management consultant – Alan has held senior positions with PwC and Accenture - he advises organisations on how to manage, structure and govern investments for optimum results.

Publications

  • Custodio, G., Thorogood, A., and Yetton, P. "24 x 7 @ Full Speed: Accelerated Time to Market," Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, Nebraska, 2005, p. 12
  • Custodio, G., Thorogood, A., and Yetton, P. "24x7 @ Full Speed: Accelerated Time to Market," Journal of Information Technology (21:2) 2006, pp 116-126
  • Custodio, G., Thorogood, A., and Yetton, P. "Agility: Balancing Stability and Flexibility - the Case of the California Energy Commission," in: Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management, K. Desouza (ed.), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, p. 30
  • Reynolds, P., Thorogood, A., and Weill, P. "Exploiting your digitized platform as a defense against new market entrants," Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, p. 4
  • Reynolds, P., Thorogood, A., and Yetton, P. "Allocation of decision rights in multi-business organizations: What decisions, who makes them, and when are they made?," in: International Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, St Louis, 2010
  • Reynolds, P., Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. "Reframing Executive Perception: a $1 billion Action Research IT Project," Winter International Symposium on Information and Communications Technology, ACM, Cape Town, 2005, pp. 38-43
  • Thorogood, A. "Reframing Investment Decisions to Improve IT Governance, IT Alignment and IT Project Management," in: Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, p. 182
  • Thorogood, A. "Managing IT in a downturn," in: Leadership in a changing landscape, AFR and MIS, Sydney, 2009, p. 16
  • Thorogood, A., and Reynolds, P. "Submission to the Review of the Australian Government's use of Information and Communication Technology," Department of Finance and Deregulation, Canberra, p. 17
  • Thorogood, A., Reynolds, P., and Yetton, P. "Performing Under Pressure: IT Execution in a $1.4bn Business Transformation," in: International Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, St Louis, 2010
  • Thorogood, A., Reynolds, P., and Yetton, P. "Making the Case: IT Investments in a $1.4bn Transformation," in: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, Brisbane, 2011
  • Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. "Reducing Complexity and Market Risk in Major System Upgrades: An extension of Real Options theory to information technology infrastructure," Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Shanghai, 2004, p. 7
  • Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. "Reducing the Technical Complexity and Business Risk of Major Systems Projects," Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, IEEE, Big Island, Hawaii, 2004, p. 9
  • Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. "Transforming the Agility of IT Infrastructure and Projects through Real Options," European Academy of Management, Munich, 2005, p. 29
  • Thorogood, A.F., Yetton, P., Vlasic, A., and Spiller, J. "Raise Your Glasses the Water's Magic! Strategic IT at SA Water: a case study in alignment, outsourcing and governance," Journal of Information Technology (19:1) 2004, pp 130-139
  • Weiss, J.W., and Thorogood, A. "A Diagnostic for Exploring IT Alignment as a Strategic Weapon," Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, IEEE, Big Island, Hawaii, 2006, p. 7
  • Weiss, J.W., and Thorogood, A. "Information Technology (IT)/Business Alignment as a Strategic Weapon: A Diagnostic Tool," Engineering Management Journal (23:2) 2011, pp 30-41
  • Weiss, J.W., Thorogood, A., and Anderson Jr, D. "Three IT-Business Alignment Profiles: Technical Resource, Business Enabler and Strategic Weapon," in: Bentley College Research Papers, Boston, 2005, p. 32
  • Weiss, J.W., Thorogood, A., and Clark, K.D. "Three IT-Business Alignment Profiles: Technical Resource, Business Enabler and Strategic Weapon," Communications of the AIS (18:December) 2006
  • Wood, C., and Thorogood, A. "The Role of the Business Unit CIO: A Study of the Interaction between Corporate IT Governance and Local Leadership," in: Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, Keystone, CO, 2007

 

 

Research interests

  • Strategy
  • Investment decisions
  • Governance
  • Project management
  • Social media

 

Executive programs taught

 

  • Strategy execution
  • Sales Effectiveness

Research grants

 Courses taught

  • MNGT6382 IT and Organisational Performance
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