Kevin Desouza

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Kevin C. Desouza
Born1979
Knowledge Management
InstitutionsArizona State University

Kevin C. Desouza (born 1979) is an Indian American academic. He is an ASU Foundation professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2012 to 2016 he served as Associate Dean for Research at the

College of Public Service & Community Solutions
.

Biography

Born in

University of Illinois at Chicago
in 2006.

Prior to joining Arizona State University, he directed the Metropolitan Institute at the

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
.

While at the

Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School in France, and the Accenture Institute for High Business Performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts
.

Work

Desouza has authored, co-authored, and/or edited nine books, and his research has been featured more than 125 articles in practitioner and academic journals. His research has also been featured by a number of publications such as

Businessweek, and Computerworld, among others. He also regularly contributes to practitioner magazines such as the Business Information Review
.

Desouza has advised, briefed, and/or consulted for major international corporations, non-governmental organizations, and public agencies on strategic management issues ranging from management of information systems, to knowledge management, competitive intelligence, government intelligence operations, and crisis management.

Selected publications

  • Desouza, Kevin. Agile Information Systems. Routledge, 2006.
  • Desouza, Kevin C. "Barriers to effective use of knowledge management systems in software engineering." Communications of the ACM 46.1 (2003): 99–101.
  • Desouza, Kevin C. "Facilitating tacit knowledge exchange." Communications of the ACM 46.6 (2003): 8588.
  • Desouza, Kevin C. "Strategic contributions of game rooms to knowledge management: some preliminary insights." Information & Management 41.1 (2003): 63–74.
  • Desouza, Kevin C., and Yukika Awazu. "Knowledge management at SMEs: five peculiarities." Journal of knowledge management 10.1 (2006): 32–43.
  • Evaristo, J. Roberto, et al. "A dimensional analysis of geographically distributed project teams: a case study." Journal of Engineering and technology Management 21.3 (2004): 175–189.
  • Desouza, Kevin C., Yukika Awazu, and Peter Baloh. "Managing knowledge in global software development efforts: Issues and practices." IEEE software 23.5 (2006): 30–37.
  • Desouza, Kevin C., and J. Roberto Evaristo. "Project management offices: A case of knowledge-based archetypes." International Journal of Information Management 26.5 (2006): 414–423.

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