Social analysis and modelling skills are valuable to many organisations as organisational complexity has a greater affect on IT project performance (e.g. budget, schedule, functionality, user satisfaction) than technical complexity. I have developed or extended state-of-the-art approaches that enable organisations to understand:
David Greenwood MSc MA CANTAB
David Greenwood is a PhD student studying socio-technical systems system-of-systems at the University of St Andrews and is also freelance consultant.
As a researcher I have worked with a multi-national systems engineering firm to help them understand why systems they have deployed have not been adopted or used as intended. I have also worked with a north sea oil & gas technology solutions organisation to help them understand the socio-technical risks associated with deploying their services to cloud based infrastructures.
My research expertise comprises social analysis and modelling for systems engineering. Our methodology comprises ethnography and more recently social network analysis.
As of September 2008 I am a PhD student of the Computer Science Department at the University of St Andrews, UK. I’m currently working on the Large-Scale Complex IT Systems project with Prof. Ian Sommerville and we’re interested in exploring the sociotechnical issues that affect the adoption of large-scale IT systems. Prior to obtaining a PhD position I worked as an Enterprise Risk Consultant at Deloitte.
(Source: dgreenwood.com)
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