Erling S. Andersen

Demographic data
Born 26.2 1941 in Oslo, Norway
Married to Birgit Brantenberg
Education
Master Degree in Economics, Institute of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway 1966.

Work experience
1967 Researcher Data-Ship a/s (consultancy firm within shipping)
1968 - 1969 Secretary for governmental committee on data processing education
1970 - 1984 Assistant professor and later associate professor at Institute of Economics, University of Oslo
1984 - 1991 Dean NKI College of Computer Science
1988 - 1996 Adjunct professor Norwegian School of Management BI
1991 - 1993 Adjunct professor Department of Information Science, University of Bergen
1993 - 1996 Professor of information science, Department of Information Science, University of Bergen
1995 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
1996 - Professor of information systems and project management, Norwegian School of Management BI
(1997-1998 Head of Department of Organisation and Management, 1998-2000 Head of Department of Technology Management, 2000- Associate Dean, responsible for BIs China activities)

Elective offices
Former editor of Sosialøkonomen (Norwegian journal on economics)
Former editor of Data (Nordic journal on information technology)
President of Norwegian Computer Society 1985 - 1987
Has held many offices within Nordic DataUnion (the association of the Nordic computer associations)

Teaching and other academic work
Invited lecturer to many academic institutions in Norway: University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of Tromsø, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, many regional colleges
Invited lecturer to academic institutions outside Norway: Stockholm School of Economics, University of Lund, University of Karlstad, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Fudan University (Shanghai, China), National University of Singapore
Many lectures at conferences and courses
Chairman or member of committees for awarding professorships in Norway, Sweden and Denmark

Industrial experiences and consulting
Served on the board of some IT companies
Advisor to ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) on training of economists for the shipping industry in China
Consulting in Norway and Sweden for companies and governmental agencies

Larger research projects
Research manager of project “Companies Unlimited”
Deputy manager Norwegian Center of Project Management



Some publications by Erling S. Andersen

Erling S. Andersen has published many books and articles within the fields of systems development, use of information technology, education within information technology, project management and management in general. Most of his publications are in Norwegian and Swedish. His book “Goal Directed Project Management” is available in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, German, Dutch and Italian.

His main publications in English are presented below.


Books

Erling S. Andersen, Kristoffer V. Grude, Tor Haug, J. Rodney Turner: Goal Directed Project Management Kogan Page, London 1987

Erling S. Andersen, Kristoffer V. Grude, Tor Haug: Goal Directed Project Management 2.edition, Kogan Page, London 1995

Erling S. Andersen, Petter Gottschalk: Information Technology Management Scandinavian University Press, Oslo 2001


Journal articles and book chapters

Erling S. Andersen and Hans-Erik Nissen: Systematic Description of Activities data 9/1977

J. Rodney Turner, Kristoffer V. Grude, Tor Haug, Erling S. Andersen: Corporate development: balancing changes to people, systems and organization International Journal of Project Management 1/1988

Erling S. Andersen: The Concept of Information Precedence Relations - Lessons for Project Planning. In Bo Dahlbom (ed.): The Infological Equation. Essays in Honor of Börje Langefors Gothenburg Studies in Information Systems, Report 6, March 1995

Erling S. Andersen: Warning: Activity Planning is Hazardous to your Project`s Health International Journal of Project Management 2/1996, pp. 89-94

Erling S. Andersen, Svein Arne Jessen: Project Evaluation Scheme: A tool for evaluating the current project status and predicting the project results Project Management 1/2000, pp.61-67

Erling S. Andersen, Qinli Xiao Dyrhaug, Svein Arne Jessen: Evaluation of Chinese projects and comparison with Norwegian projects International Journal of Project Management, 20 (2002), pp.601-609

Jan Terje Karlsen, Petter Gottschalk, Erling S. Andersen: External or Internal Focus? A Comparison of IT Executives and IT Project Managers Roles Engineering Management Journal 14(2), June 2002, pp.5-11

Erling S. Andersen, Svein Arne Jessen: Project Maturity in Organizations International Journal of Project Management 21 (2003), pp.457-462

Reports

Erling S. Andersen, Andreas L. Opdahl: IS Architecture Assessment for Requirements Engineering. In Klaus Pohl and Peter Peters (eds.): Proceedings of "REFSQ `95 - Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality", Jyväskylä/Finland, June 1995 Aachener Beiträge zur Informatik, 1995

Erling S. Andersen, Andreas L. Opdahl: A Metamodel for IS Architecture Representation Reports in Information Science Report No.42, ISSN 0803-6489, Department of Information Science, University of Bergen, May 1995

Erling S. Andersen, Andreas L. Opdahl: IS Architecture Assessment for Requirements Engineering Reports in Information Science Report No.44, ISSN 0803-6489, Department of Information Science, University of Bergen, May 1995

Conference proceedings

Erling S. Andersen: Understanding your project organization’s character – Exploring the differences between the cultures of a project and its base organization, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 34), Maui, Hawaii, January 4-6, 2001

Erling S. Andersen: Does Culture Matter? – Some Hypotheses on the Relationships between Culture and Project-Orientation, International Project Management Congress 2001 ( IPMC2001), Tokyo, Japan, November 18-21, 2001

Jan Terje Karlsen, Petter Gottschalk, Erling S. Andersen: Information Technology Management Roles: A Comparison of IT executives and IT project managers, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, Jan. 7-10, 2002

Erling S. Andersen: Describing and assessing projects – the X model, PMI Research Conference 2002, Seattle, Wash., USA July 14-17, 2002

Erling S. Andersen, Svein Arne Jessen: Project maturity in organisations, Irnop 5 (International Research Network on Organizing by Projects), Rotterdam, May 29-31, 2002

Erling S. Andersen: “Never the twain shall meet” – Exploring the differences between Japanese and Norwegian IS professionals, ACM SIGCPR (Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research), Kristiansand, Norway, May 14-16, 2002

Erling S. Andersen: Mission Breakdown Structure – Increased focus on value creation, Nordnet 2002, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 25-27, 2002

Erling S. Andersen, Asbjørn Rolstadås: High Attention Norwegian Projects with Substantial Cost/Time Overrun – Lessons to be Learned, pm days ’02 – research conference, Wien, November 27.-28, 2002

Erling S. Andersen, Asbjørn Rolstadås: Norwegian Center for Project Management -
A National Research Initiative, pm days ’02 – research conference, Wien, November 27.-28, 2002

Qinli Xiao Dyrhaug , Erling S. Andersen, Asbjørn Rolstadås: A Generalized Critical Success Factor Process Model For Managing Offshore Development Projects In Norway, 17-th IPMA World Congress on Project Management 2003, Moscow, June 2.-6., 2003

Erling S. Andersen: IS Professional Commitment – Influencing Factors, ACIS (Australasian Conference on Information Systems), Perth, Australia, November 26-28, 2003