Kevin C. Desouza (born 1979) is an Indian American academic. He is an ASU Foundation professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the

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. From 2012 to 2016 he served as Associate Dean for Research at the

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Biography

Born in

Bombay Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...

(now

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Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

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he grew up in

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where he completed his primary and secondary education. He attended the

University of Illinois Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

in 1996 to study

accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entity, economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activit ...

and information & decision sciences, graduating in 2000. He then completed his MBA from the IIT Stuart School of Business and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. Prior to joining Arizona State University, he directed the Metropolitan Institute at the

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and served as associate professor at the

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within the School of Public and International Affairs at

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.Kevin Desouza named director of Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute More Sharing ServicesShare
at ''vtnews.vt.edu,'' Aug. 18, 2011. Accessed 10-03-2015 From 2005 to 2011, he was on the faculty at the

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and held adjunct appointments in the university's

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and at the

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. While at the University of Washington, he was an affiliate faculty member of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy and holds a visiting professorship at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics. He has held visiting positions at the Centre for International Studies at the

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, the

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, the

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and Accenture Institute for High Business Performance.

Work

Desouza has authored, co-authored, and/or edited nine books, and his research has been featured more than 125 articles in practitioner and academic journals. His research has also been featured by a number of publications such as

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, and

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, among others. He also regularly contributes to practitioner magazines such as the

Business Information Review ''Business Information Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on information and knowledge management in organizations. The journal publishes both practitioner and academic papers themed around commercial inf ...

. Desouza has advised, briefed, and/or consulted for major international corporations, non-governmental organizations, and public agencies on strategic management issues ranging from management of information systems, to

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the set of procedures for producing, disseminating, utilizing, and overseeing an organization's knowledge and data. It alludes to a multidisciplinary strategy that maximizes knowledge utilization to accomplish organ ...

competitive intelligence Competitive intelligence (CI) is the process and forward-looking practices used in producing knowledge about the competitive environment to improve organizational performance. Competitive intelligence involves systematically collecting and anal ...

, government intelligence operations, and

crisis management Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and envi ...

Selected publications

* Desouza, Kevin. ''Agile Information Systems.'' Routledge, 2006. * Desouza, Kevin C. "Barriers to effective use of knowledge management systems in software engineering." ''Communications of the ACM'' 46.1 (2003): 99–101. * Desouza, Kevin C. "Facilitating tacit knowledge exchange." ''Communications of the ACM'' 46.6 (2003): 8588. * Desouza, Kevin C. "Strategic contributions of game rooms to knowledge management: some preliminary insights." ''Information & Management'' 41.1 (2003): 63–74. * Desouza, Kevin C., and Yukika Awazu. "Knowledge management at SMEs: five peculiarities." ''Journal of knowledge management'' 10.1 (2006): 32–43. * Evaristo, J. Roberto, et al. "A dimensional analysis of geographically distributed project teams: a case study." ''Journal of Engineering and technology Management'' 21.3 (2004): 175–189. * Desouza, Kevin C., Yukika Awazu, and Peter Baloh. "Managing knowledge in global software development efforts: Issues and practices." ''IEEE software'' 23.5 (2006): 30–37. * Desouza, Kevin C., and J. Roberto Evaristo. "Project management offices: A case of knowledge-based archetypes." International Journal of Information Management 26.5 (2006): 414–423.

References

External links

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at kevindesouza.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Desouza, Kevin 1979 births Living people University of Washington faculty Virginia Tech faculty Arizona State University faculty