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As Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Management in The Open
University Business School, Dr Stephen Little is a member of the Centre for
Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise and of the University's Centre on
Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD).
He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN), a company limited by
guarantee. The aim of the company is to raise awareness of the developments
occurring in high technology in Asian countries and to encourage collaboration
between companies in the UK (and wider Europe) and those in the Asia-Pacific
region. Previously as a member of APTN he had attended meetings and conferences
in the UK, China and South Korea.
He is also a visitor at the Rotterdam School of
Management (RSM) and holds a Visiting Chair in Business Logistics, Innovation
and Systems (BLIS) at the University of Bolton, is a
council member of the Design Research Society (DRS) and an associate of the
British Institute of Information Technology and Ecommerce (BITE). Currently he is an external examiner
for the course components of the DBA and PhD programme at Birmingham Business
School and a member of the International Board of the Masters programme,
Hotelschool, Den Haag.
He is currently researching the flows of knowledge and
capability between regions in the global economy with colleagues at the Open
University and elsewhere and has co-edited books and journal issues covering
the influence of the Asian economies in the
twenty-first century, intelligent urban
development and meta-governance.
Details of these research interests can be found
here.
A full curriculum vitae is available here.
He has degrees in Architecture and Applied Psychology. He
has been researching technology and organisations since leaving architectural
practice in 1981 to undertake a PhD on the organisational dynamics of
innovation in computer aided architectural design. This was undertaken at the
Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London where he made
extensive use of on-line information resources and the ARPANet, precursor of
the Internet.
He joined the OU in 1999 as course team chair for the
presentation of a new MBA elective course Managing Knowledge. As well as
involving students across Western and Eastern Europe, this course was also
presented by affiliated institutions in South Africa and Hong Kong.
Currently he chairs the MBA (Life Sciences) and
presentation chair of the key course Strategic Management in Life Sciences
and Heath Care.
His earlier experience includes a decade as an architect
in the U.K. public housing sector, prior to his PhD at the Department of Design
Research, Royal College of Art, London. This was followed by eleven years in
Australia based at Griffith University, Brisbane, and the University of
Wollongong NSW.
While in Australia Steve held visiting appointments to
the Urban Research Program at the Australian National University and the
Fujitsu Centre for Managing Information Technology in Organisations at the
Australian Graduate School of Management. At the former he investigated
non-place aspects of community. At the latter he studied the deployment of
knowledge-based computer systems in a number of key sectors, including rail
transportation.
In 1996 he joined the Department of Business Information
Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a final year subject
preparing computing professionals for work in a globalised economy and has
published a number of papers on the cross-cultural dimensions of information
systems in this context.
In continuing his interest in the Asia Pacific he
undertook Japanese language courses at the North West Japan Centre.
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