Dr Joyce Fortune

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Dr Joyce Fortune is a senior lecturer and head of the Technology Management Department at The Open University.

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Disasters don't have mapsOU

By Dr Joyce Fortune (The Open University)

04 May 2005

Joyce's response to the final lecture of the 2005 series of Reith lectures Read more : Disasters don't have maps

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Shock and aweOU

By Dr Joyce Fortune (The Open University)

27 April 2005

Once stories of grey goo become replaced with lighter tennis racquets, we'll stop worrying about Nanotechnology, says Joyce Fortune. She's responding to the fourth of... Read more : Shock and awe

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The 15% ruleOU

By Dr Joyce Fortune (The Open University)

20 April 2005

You have to make time for innovation, says Joyce Fortune in response to the third of Lord Broer's Reith Lectures. Read more : The 15% rule

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Should technologists be held to account?OU

By Dr Joyce Fortune (The Open University)

13 April 2005

Certainly technology takes us forward - but sometimes, it takes us forward into darker places. Joyce Fortune responds to Lord Broers' second Reith Lecture. Read more : Should technologists be held to account?

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Technology needs to respond to peopleOU

By Dr Joyce Fortune (The Open University)

05 April 2005

Technology that doesn't find popular support will struggle. Joyce Fortune responds to Lord Broers' first Reith Lecture. Read more : Technology needs to respond to people

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White, Diana and Fortune, Joyce (2012). Using systems thinking to evaluate a major project: The case of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 19(2), pp. 205–228.

Storey, John; Fortune, Joyce; Johnson, Michael and Savory, Clive (2011). The adoption and rejection patterns of practitioner-developed technologies: a review, a model and a research agenda. International Journal of Innovation Management, 15(5), pp. 1043–1067.

Fortune, Joyce; White, Diana; Jugdev, Kam and Walker, Derek (2011). Looking again at current practice in project management. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 4(4), pp. 553–572.

White, Diana and Fortune, Joyce (2009). The project-specific Formal System Model. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2(1), pp. 36–52.

Ellis, Elaine; Fortune, Joyce and Peters, Geoff (2007). Partnership problems: analysis and re-design. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 9(1), pp. 34–51.

Fortune, Joyce and Peters, Geoff (2006). Systems analysis of failures as a quality management tool. In: Smith, Denis and Elliott, Dominic eds. Key readings in crisis management: systems and structures for prevention and recovery. Routledge.

Fortune, Joyce and White, Diana (2006). Framing of project critical success factors by a systems model. International Journal of Project Management, 24(1), pp. 53–65.

Fortune, Joyce and Peters, Geoff (2005). Information systems: achieving success by avoiding failure. Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Peters, Geoffrey and Fortune, Joyce (2003). The Formal system paradigm for studying failures. In: Midgley, G. ed. Systems thinking: systems theories and modelling (4 vols). Sage Library in Business and Management, 2. Sage, pp. 383–390.

White, Diana and Fortune, Joyce (2002). Current practice in project management – an empirical study. International Journal of Project Management, 20(1), pp. 1–11.

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Dr Joyce Fortune is a senior lecturer and head of the Technology Management Department at The Open University. Her teaching and research interests include systems failures, quality management and technology strategy. Her latest book is about learning from information system failures. Other topics she has written about recently include risk in project management, the cultural school of strategy formation and human rights and ethical policing.

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Disasters don't have mapsOU

Shock and aweOU

The 15% ruleOU

Should technologists be held to account?OU

Technology needs to respond to peopleOU

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