Alan Thorogood

Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (UNSW and Sydney), MBA (AGSM), Henley Management Diploma

Research interests

IT Strategy
IT Alignment
IT Investment Decisions
IT Governance
IT Project Management

Publications

Thorogood, A. F. and Yetton, P. Reducing the Technical Complexity and Business Risk of Major Systems Projects In Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences (Ed, Newell, S.) IEEE, Big Island, Hawaii, 2004
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Thorogood, A. F., Yetton, P., Vlasic, A. and Spiller J. Strategic IT at SA Water: A case study in alignment, outsourcing and governance Journal of Information Technology (19:1), 2004, pp130-139

Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. Reducing Complexity and Market Risk in Major System Upgrades: An extension of Real Options theory to information technology infrastructure In Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Shanghai, 2004

Reynolds, P., Thorogood, A.F., and Yetton, P. Reframing Executive Perception: A $1 billion Action Research IT Project In Proceedings of the Winter International Symposium on Information and Communications Technology, Cape Town, 2005,
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Thorogood, A.F. and Yetton, P. "Transforming the Agility of IT Infrastructure and Projects through Real Options," European Academy of Management, Munich, 2005, p 29.

Custodio, G., Thorogood, A. and Yetton, P. "24 x 7 @ Full Speed: Accelerated Time to Market," Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, Nebraska, 2005, p 12.

Weiss, J.W. and Thorogood, A. "A Diagnostic for Exploring IT Alignment as a Strategic Weapon," Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, IEEE, Big Island, Hawaii, 2006, p 7.
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Custodio, G., Thorogood, A. and Yetton, P. " 24x7 @ Full Speed: Accelerated Time to Market," Journal of Information Technology (21:2), 2006, pp116-126.
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Custodio, G., Thorogood, A. and Yetton, P. "Agility: Balancing Stability and Flexibility - the Case of the California Energy Commission," in: Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management, K. Desouza (ed.), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, p 30.
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Cox, K., Bleistein, S.H., Reynolds, P. and Thorogood, A. “A contingency view of organizational infrastructure requirements engineering” Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM Press, Dijon, 2006, pp 1497-1504,
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Weiss, J.W., Thorogood, A., and Clark, K.D. "Three IT-Business Alignment Profiles: Technical Resource, Business Enabler and Strategic Weapon," Communications of the AIS (18:December) 2006.

Current teaching activities
EMBA
Course Leader for IT and Organisational Performance

MBA
Lecturer for IT and Organisational Performance

Contact details
Tel: +61 2 9931 9249
Email:alant@agsm.edu.au