Affiliated Faculty

Kevin Desouza (PhD, University of Illinois - Chicago)

206-616-0880
e-mail: kdesouza@u.washington.edu

Kevin C. Desouza is on the faculty of the Information School at the University of Washington. His immediate past position was the Director of the Institute for Engaged Business Research, a think-tank of the Engaged Enterprise, a strategy consulting firm with expertise in the areas of knowledge management, crisis management, strategic deployment of information systems, and government and competitive intelligence assignments. He has authored Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence (Quorum Books, 2002), co-authored The Outsourcing Handbook - How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process (Kogan Page, 2006), Managing Information in Complex Organizations (M.E. Sharpe, 2005) and Engaged Knowledge Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and edited New Frontiers of Knowledge Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). In addition, he has published over 70 articles in prestigious practitioner and academic journals. His work has also been featured by a number of publications such as the Washington Internet Daily, Computerworld, KM Review, and Human Resource Management International Digest. Desouza has advised major international corporations and government organizations on strategic management issues ranging from knowledge management, to competitive intelligence, and crisis management. Desouza is frequently an invited speaker on a number of cutting-edge business and technology topics for national and international, industry and academic audiences. Desouza received his B.Sc. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent book Agile Information Systems (Butterworth Heinemann, 2006) is currently in press.

For more information, visit his website.