John Robert Venable

John Venable is Associate Professor and former Head of School at the School of Information Systems, Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia. He holds a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Management Science, an M.S. in Advanced Technology, and a PhD in Advanced Technology (Information Systems) from Binghamton University, USA. He has taught and researched in IS at Binghamton University and Central Connecticut State University in the USA, Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and at Murdoch University and Curtin University in Australia. He has consulted on ICT and organisational change with large and small business organisations, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations. His main research interests are in IS development methods and practice, organisational, IS and data modeling, digital library systems, Group Support Systems, organisational change, problem solving methods, and IS research methods, including Design Science Research.