Will Venters

London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management, Faculty Member

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Utility, Cloud and Grid Computing
Distributed Work Practice
Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice
Distributed Information Systems
Software Engineering
Information Systems Development Practice
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Current Research Projects
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Principle Investigator for Pegasus: Studying Particle Physicists Engagement with the Grid. (EPSRC Funded)
Co-Investigator in Connecting for Health Evaluation of Electronic Prescribing Service.
Researching various Cloud Computing issues.
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Other Activities
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Member of the board of trustees of YouthNet (an exclusively online charity).
Warden of Sidney Webb House LSE Student Residence.
Faculty Editor of iSChannel

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Papers by Will Venters

Cloud in Context

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 20, 2013

requirements that set them apart from other types of enterprise applications. Determining where a... more requirements that set them apart from other types of enterprise applications. Determining where and how the cloud can support these systems depends on a set of five primary requirements: bandwidth, storage, cost, security and accessibility. This paper outlines some of the key considerations midand large-sized enterprises need to examine before deciding to move their video surveillance systems into the cloud — and looks at how they can leverage cloud capabilities for video in the meantime.

The Algorithmic Infrastructure of the API Economy: The Case of Online Booking Services

Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2023

EDITORIAL - From the Faculty Editor

Naps in the office - perhaps the secret of China's digital success?

We have just spent a week visiting Shenzhen, China, to see the headquarters of one of the world's... more We have just spent a week visiting Shenzhen, China, to see the headquarters of one of the world's most innovative and fastest-growing companies-Huawei. Since its founding in 1987, Huawei has grown to become one of the world's largest telecoms companies, with revenue of $75 billion. Globally it employs 180,000 with nearly 60,000 of these based at the Shenzhen campus. Our overall aim is to understand their global innovation practices.* We want to understand how management and governance arrangements support the demand for concurrently tightly knit, yet open, innovation networks. In particular we are interested in how they harness digital platforms in support of this global innovation practice. Understanding this is particularly important since Chinese firms must successful harness capital and talent beyond their borders (Fuller 2016) and since, given the diversity, scale, and adoption-willingness of the Chinese home market, innovation networks outside China will be attracted to take advantage of the "world's biggest Petri dish for breeding world-class competition" (Yip and McKern 2016).

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Revisiting service thinking : the role of technology in contemporary life

Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption

Journal of Information Technology, Jul 19, 2023

We show that proximity is significant during cloud computing’s adoption. This is counter to the p... more We show that proximity is significant during cloud computing’s adoption. This is counter to the prevailing assumptions of cloud adoption as being more impersonal and distant, with less interaction between provider and purchaser than on-premise technologies. We do this through an interpretive study of cloud computing adopters across Europe. We develop a conceptual framework of cloud proximity which draws attention to its locational, relational and temporal proximal dimensions. Our proximal analysis leads us to identify three aspects of cloud adoption where proximity plays a key role: mercantile aspect (e.g., cloud sales support), counsel aspect (e.g., access to internal and external expertise) and organi-technical aspect (e.g., the understanding of cloud technology and services alongside their organizational adoption context). By challenging assumptions of distant and remote adoption, we contribute to the cloud computing adoption research and raise questions for IT adoption in general.

Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part one: promise

With cloud computing becoming an increasingly important element of the IT function of most organi... more With cloud computing becoming an increasingly important element of the IT function of most organisations, this five-part report presents a state-of-the art review of the key features of cloud computing and its likely near–term and longer–term development trends. It draws on research undertaken from late 2010 into 2011, including a survey of over 1035 business and IT executives and more than thirty-five interviews with key international players in the cloud computing ecosystem including cloud providers, system integrators and users of cloud ...

Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part five: management

Conclusion: The Bigger Picture

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014

This final chapter builds upon chapter 8 to look to the future and considers the impact cloud com... more This final chapter builds upon chapter 8 to look to the future and considers the impact cloud computing is likely to have on society and the economy. In 2007, nobody imagined using a data center on the other side of the world to send a text message or book a calendar appointment. Yet, well before 2013, Apple Siri and Google Now were exploiting cloud computing to provide these services. Here we discuss the social and technological implications of cloud, looking at its potential impact on smart cities, communication, and business. Within this we also note the emergence of other technology trends such as super-low-cost computing (for example, the $10 computer-on-a-chip) and additive manufacturing and explore their potential in shaping the commercial landscape when linked with cloud computing. Essentially, the chapter addresses the question: If computing is in the cloud — what next?

Conclusion â The Bigger Picture

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 20, 2013

Privacy & security in the Cloud

Journal of International Technology and Information Management, Nov 7, 2013

Privacy and security issues are frequently presented as major inhibitors of cloud adoption. Some ... more Privacy and security issues are frequently presented as major inhibitors of cloud adoption. Some of these are operational issues and others relate to regulatory and compliance requirements that vary by industry and location. There is a growing body of guidance that seeks to clarify the implications of these concerns for various parts of the cloud supply chain. This paper provides a review of the business and legal risks associated with cloud computing and critically reviews the guidance available. It pays particular attention to the implications of the PRISM revelations for the development of a cloud marketplace that aims to keep data private and secure. A number of responses to cloud risks are available, including technological fixes and business responses. Each response has its own costs and requirements in terms of organisational capability and the paper evaluates the various responses that potential cloud adopters can use to manage the risks associated with cloud computing.

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The Service Trajectory

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 20, 2013

Following digital drugs

Delivering Digital Drugs (D3) is a project funded by Research Councils UK as part of the 'New Eco... more Delivering Digital Drugs (D3) is a project funded by Research Councils UK as part of the 'New Economic Models in the Digital Economy' programme. RC grant reference EP/L021188/1 All images Creative Commons Following Drugs: A primary aim of the Delivering Digital Drugs project is to reveal the multiple and interconnected locations and transitions by which drugs become digital.

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The Service Trajectory

Moving to the Cloud Corporation, 2014

Cloud computing is the consequence of the evolution of two distinct strands: technological innova... more Cloud computing is the consequence of the evolution of two distinct strands: technological innovation — based around virtualization and shared computing provision — and a distinctive service-based perspective on computing. Following from this dual-strand perspective on cloud computing, we argue in this chapter that the drivers of the near-term development of cloud computing will have their origins in both strands. We have already seen in the previous chapter, with the Desires Framework, how important it is to see and focus on the business service dimension inherent in cloud developments. In this chapter we develop the notion of the service trajectory with cloud. On a larger canvas, based on our interviews and analyses of the IT industry, we identify three big impacts that relate to the service trajectory in cloud computing. These are: a radical shift toward service performance, a move from products to business services and a radical reconfiguration of the supply industry. In practice, as will emerge, these three shifts present major challenges to the IT supply industry and also to its user organizations.

Cloud and the future of business: from costs to innovation: part four: innovation

Platform, or technology project? A spectrum of six strategic ‘plays’ from UK government IT initiatives and their implications for policy

Government Information Quarterly, 2021

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI ... more This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordThere is a markedly broad range of definitions and illustrative examples of the role played by governments themselves within the literature on government platforms. In response we conduct an inductive and deductive qualitative review of the literature to clarify this landscape and so to develop a typology of six definitions of government platforms, organised within three genres along a spectrum from fully centralised, through to fully decentralised. For each platform definition we offer illustrative ‘minicases’ drawn from the UK government experience as well as further insights and implications for each genre drawn from the broader information systems literature on platforms. A range of benefits, risks, governance challenges, policy recommendations, and suggestions for further research are then identified and discussed.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC

Epistemic Mirroring: understanding the interdependence between a firm’s governance of internal relations and its interpretation of the digital ecosystem architecture

The mirroring hypothesis asserts a symmetry between how a firm organizes its activities and tasks... more The mirroring hypothesis asserts a symmetry between how a firm organizes its activities and tasks internally (division of labour) and how technologies are logically partitioned into subcomponents and modules. Yet digital artifacts can violate fundamental properties of physical modular systems, such as the impossibility to univocally allocate functionalities to the various modules, due to their agnostic and generative nature. Although an increasing amount of works is starting to question the usefulness of classic modularity theory to understand how firms take decisions and organize their activities internally, there is still a scant literature on the topic. In this work we draw upon the mirror hypothesis, and complement it with the insight provided by the IT governance literature. By doing so, we suggest that a company’s epistemic interpretation of the modular nature of a digital system depends on the dynamics of its internal decision-making process, reflecting formal and informal pa...

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development of the particle physics Grid

development: Exploring the collaborative

Researching Desires

Research article A critical review of cloud computing:

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Cloud in Context

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Dec 20, 2013