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Ojelanki Ngwenyama

Dr Ojelanki Ngwenyama

Director of the Institute for Innovation and Technology Management & Professor

Department: Global Management Studies

Office: SHE-624, Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health

Phone: 416-979-5000 x4203

Email: ojelanki@torontomu.ca

Education: MS (Roosevelt University, Computer Information Systems), MBA (Whitman School of Management, Organizations & Management), PhD (Thomas J.Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Computer Science), D.Phil (University of Pretoria, International Contributions to Research Methods in Information Systems Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology) 

Discipline: Global Management 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Big Data & Information

  • Data Mining

  • Digital Media & Technology

  • Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

  • ICT Development & Productivity

  • IT Management

  • Organizational Innovation

  • Software Process Improvement

  • Technology Management & Information

Dr. Ngwenyama is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He earned his PhD (1988) from the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and his MBA (1985) from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. In 2009, he received a D.Phil (Honoris Causa) from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pretoria for his international contributions to research methods in Information Systems.

Throughout his career, Dr. Ngwenyama has held numerous academic and research appointments. He served as a Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin University Business School (2017–2020) and as a National Research Foundation Professorial Research Fellow (2019–2020) in the School of Computing at the University of South Africa. In 2012, he was the VELUX Visiting Professor of Information Technology Management at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. In 2011, he was the Andrew Mellon Foundation Mentorship Professor in Information Systems at the University of Cape Town.

Dr. Ngwenyama has been a member of the faculties of several leading institutions, including the Schulich School of Business at York University, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, and Aarhus Business School at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Informatics at the University of Pretoria.

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Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama is the principal investigator for the SSHRC funded project: Accelerating Digital Technology Adoption In Canadian Companies. His other ongoing research projects are: (a) Organizational Innovation and Design: Focus an understanding of how to develop enabling conditions for organizational innovation and the role of design and technology appropriation in organizational innovation. (b) Decision modelling for Technology Management: Focused on developing decision models based on the learning curve, real options, game theory and transaction cost economics for analyzing complex high-value decision making for new technology implementation in organizations. (c) Information Technology and Global Development: Focused on investigating the social and economic impacts of ICT on developing countries. (e) Critical Social Science Research Methods: Focused on developing methodologies for critical social science research in information systems.

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