Michael John Earl (born 1 November 1944) is a British academic, Formerly Dean of

Templeton College, Oxford Templeton College was one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, England. It was an all-graduate college, concentrating on the recruitment of students in business and management studies. In 2008, the college merged with Green ...

, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, and Professor of Information Management in the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

, known for his work on strategic information systems planning.

Biography

Earl was educated at the

University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick un ...

( BA) and the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

( MSc). He is also a

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of the

. From 1974 until 1976 he was Lecturer in Management Control at

Manchester Business School Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. It is one of the oldest business schools in the UK, and provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and e ...

. From 1976 until 1990 he was a

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, and founding Director of the Oxford Institute of Information Management. He then spent eleven years at

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, where he held positions including Professor of Information Management, Director of the Centre for Network Economy, Deputy Dean, and Acting Dean. During this time he remained an Associate Fellow of

Templeton College Templeton College was one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, ...

. In 2002 he became Dean of Templeton and Professor of Information Management in the

. Until 2004 the President of the College was both Chairman of the Governing Body and Head of House. From 2004 Earl was Head of House. On 9 February 2005 his position was approved by The Queen-in-Council. He was also University's Chairman of Executive Education. As Dean of Templeton, he led a major restructuring of business and management studies in Oxford and then led the merger between Templeton College and Green College. In 2008 he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development and External Affairs) of the university and oversaw most of the active phase of Oxford's £1.3bn fundraising campaign. He retired in 2010 and is now Emeritus Professor of Information Management at Oxford. He is one of the founders of the annual Emerging Markets Symposium at Green Templeton College. His current research is on IT in mergers and acquisitions and on information strategy. He is a trustee of the Oxford Philharmonic (symphony orchestra), serves on the Finance Board of the Diocese of Gloucester, and is involved with other voluntary and charitable organisations.

Selected publications

;Books * Earl, Michael J. ''Management strategies for information technology''. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. * Earl, Michael J. " Perspectives on Management" Oxford University Press, 1983 (and others) ;Articles, a selection *Earl, Michael J., Sampler, J. L., and J. E. Short "Strategies for Business Process Reengineering ", ''Journal of Management Information Systems: Evidence from Field Studies'', Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol 12 No 1, Summer 1995 * Earl, M. J. and Bensaou, M. "The Right Mindset for Managing Information Technology", Harvard Business Review, Sept- Oct 1998 *Cash, J. I., Earl, M. J. and R. Morison "Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration", Harvard Business Review, Nov 2008 *Earl, Michael J. "Knowledge Management Strategies: Toward a Taxonomy", Journal of Management Information Systems, Summer 2001 *Earl, Michael J. and D. Feeny, "is your CIO Adding Value?" Sloan Management Review, Vol 35, No 3, Spring 1994 * Earl, Michael J. "The new and the old of business process redesign." ''The Journal of Strategic Information Systems'' 3.1 (1994): 5-22. * Earl, Michael J.
Experiences in strategic information systems planning
" ''MIS Quarterly'' 17.1 (1993): 1-24. * Rockart, John F., Michael J. Earl, and

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. "Eight imperatives for the new IT organization." ''Sloan management review'' 38.1 (1996): 43-55. * Earl, Michael J., and Ian A. Scott.
What is a chief knowledge officer.
''Sloan management review'' 40.2 (1999): 29-38. * Earl, Michael J.
The risks of outsourcing IT
" ''Sloan management review'' 37.3 (2012).

References

External links

Debrett's People of Today

Michael Earl at Formicio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Earl, Michael J. (academic) 1944 births Living people Information systems researchers Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the University of Warwick Presidents of Templeton College, Oxford Fellows of Green Templeton College, Oxford Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Academics of London Business School Alumni of the Manchester Business School