John Christiansen

Presentation

• Currently working from the Department of Operations Management, I have previously worked at the Department of Management Accounting, and later Informatics and Management Accounting. Based on my professional training from organizational studies and sociology at CBS, I recognise that there are multiple views on organisations, organisational processes and structures.  These different views provide us with different lenses for the interpretation and analysis''s of companies and organisations.  
• I have a keen interest in organisational decision making and issues related to the implementation and use of different management technologies. These management tools might be based on IT or be conceptual ones. For the last ten years we have been driving a research program trying to critically examine and study some of the taken for granted management technologies within the area of product development and portfolio management.  Besides, I have a more than 30 years interaction with projects and project-based temporary organisations.
• I enjoy the interactive work with students and managers from public and private organisations.  For the past ten years I been happily involved with the International Product Development Management Conference, and has since 2008 been involved in the annual Doctoral Workshop for the IPDMC.
   

Primary research areas

•  Decisions and decision making in organizations
•  Organizing and management of projects, product development and innovation
•  Management technologies, rationalities, use and effects
•  Conversations, talks and sense making
•  Implementation or networks?
•  Etnographic, transformative and longitudinal studies
   

Courses

• Perspectives on Project Management and Managerial Implications
• Project Portfolio Management
• Perspectives on Product Development Management and Design Management
• The Innovation Process: a Reflection on Different Perspectives
• Design and Application of Management Information Systems in an Organisational Context

Supervision

Thesis advisor for student projects on topics related to my list of research areas and areas where I have published, on all levels, including BA and master levels. Have successfully been advisor for more than 200 master thesis''s and enjoys the work with students.

Tries to use ITC based teaching technologies and enjoy on-line learning and dialogue.