Liz Daniel

Elizabeth is Professor of Information Management. She joined The Open University Business School in January 2005 having been at Cranfield School of Management since 1999. Prior to Cranfield, she had been at City University Business School and had spent a decade in industry, initially working as a medical physicist and latterly as a management consultant.

Elizabeth's research focuses on the effective use of information systems by organisations and the individuals within those organisations. Recent research projects include exploring home based online entrepreneurship, working with colleagues from the School on a project to explore the use of personal data in both the financial services and travel sectors. Elizabeth has also recently completed a project funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) that looked at current practices in project portfolio management.

A continuing theme of her work is the realisation of benefits from IS and IT investments and she is the co-author with John Ward of the book Benefits Management: How to Increase the Business Value of Your IT Projects.

Research interests

The broad theme of Elizabeth's research is business information systems (IS) and their impact on the working of organisations and individuals. Particular areas of interest are:

• digital entrepreneurship and home based online businesses
• the use of personal data
• realising benefits from IS
• developing business cases for IS
• IS project , programme and portfolio management
• the adoption of new management practices, particularly those related to the management of IS.

Impact and engagement

Elizabeth continues to undertake significant consulting work, mainly around the application of the benefits management approach to IS/IT and other types of projects and programmes. Clients include: Microsoft, PWC, PA Consulting, Sainsburys, Brammer plc, the NHS Connecting for Health Programme, St Barts and Royal London Hospitals, Sussex and Lothian & Borders Police Forces, Hertfordshire County Council and Allen & Overy.

She is currently a member of the committee for the Council of Information Systems Professors.