Festus Oderanti

Festus Oluseyi Oderanti is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at University of Hertfordshire Business School. Prior to joining University of Hertfordshire, Festus was a Lecturer in Knowledge and Information Management and the Program Manager for MSc in Digital and Social Media Marketing at Plymouth University (July 2013- June 2016).

He is also presently a Visiting Fellow with the Newcastle University Culture Lab as well as the Business School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He collaborates with the Lab on their research in the areas of Business Models and Assisted Living Technologies.

Festus obtained his PhD in Computer Science (2007­ 2010) from Intelligent Systems Lab, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot­ Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His PhD research area was in strategic business games and decision making under uncertainty.

Dr Olu Oderanti holds two Master degrees (Master degree in Computer Science and Master degree in Business Administration). He obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree (B.Tech) in Computer Science in year 2000.

From July 2011 to June 2013, Festus worked with the Newcastle University Business School as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Sustainable Business Models for Assisted Living Technologies & Services (SALT) project. This project (2011­2014) was led by Newcastle University under the ‘Assisted living: Economic and Business Models, and Social & Behavioural Studies’ programme, funded by TSB, ESRC & NIHR as part of Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP).

Prior to that, Festus worked with University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom for about five years as an IT Helpline Analyst and IT Tutor.

He has ITSM/ITIL Foundation Certificate, ITIL V2­V3 Bridge Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management as well as ITIL Practitioner Certificate in Service Desk and Incident Management.

He had also worked for more than five years (2002­2007) with Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Nigeria as a lecturer with Computer Engineering Department and later with Computer Science Department of the same college.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
• PhD in Computer Science
• Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
• MSc in Computer Science
• B.Tech (Hons) in Computer Science

Professional membership

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member, British Computer Society (MBCS)
• Member, British Academy of Management
• Member, European Academy of Management
• Member, Computer Professional (Registration Council) of Nigeria (MCPN)
• Member, Nigeria Computer Society (MNCS)

Festus research areas are decision support systems for logistic operation, decision making under uncertainty, strategic business games, fuzzy logic, decision making in networks, e­Business development, sustainable and scalable business model for assisted living (eHealthcare) technologies, and game ­related research in the systems, man and cybernetics area.

He has worked on a number of high profile research projects such a research project on sustainable business models for assisted living technologies & services (SALT) project. The research was to design a sustainable business model for a "Scalable Assistive Technologies and Services for Independent Healthy Living and Sustainable Market Development in the Mixed Digital Economy” and funded by Technology Strategy Board (TSB), ESRC and NIHR under the ALIP3 Program: Assisted Living: Economic and Business Models, and Social & Behavioural Studies.

Festus is a co-­investigator (Co-­I) on 2014­2016 EU Erasmus Plus KA2 project "Developing online tools to foster entrepreneurship in the retail sector for young people", funded by European Commission, €120,832.

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist in all the areas identified above. Further information may be obtained from the University Graduate School.

Journals Articles

 A, Liu S, Oderanti FO & Megicks P 2016 'New structured knowledge network for strategic decision­making in IT innovative and implementable projects' JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH 69, (5) 1534­1538 Author Site , DOI

Alkuraiji A, Liu S, Oderanti FO, Annansingh F & Pan J 2014 'Knowledge network modelling to support decision ­making for strategic intervention in IT project­oriented change management' Journal of Decision Systems 23, (3) , DOI

Oderanti FO 2013 'Fuzzy inference game approach to uncertainty in business decisions and market competitions' Springerplus 2, Author Site , DOI

Oderanti FO, Li F & Wilde PD 2012 'Application of strategic fuzzy games to wage increase negotiation and decision problems' Expert Systems with Applications 39, (12) 11103­11114 , DOI

Oderanti FO & Wilde PD 2011 'Automatic fuzzy decision making system with learning for competing and connected businesses' Expert Systems with Applications 38, (12) 14574­14584 , DOI

Oderanti FO & Wilde PD 2010 'Dynamics of business games with management of fuzzy rules for decision making' International Journal of Production Economics 128, (1) 96­109 , DOI

Chapters

Oderanti FO 2013 'Uncertainty in Wage Increase Negotiation and Decisions; An Approach from Flexible Fuzzy Inference System (FIS)' in Mukherjee A Wages and Employment: Economics, Structure and Gender Differences New York, USA Nova Science Publishers 249­278 Author Site Publisher Site.

Conference Papers

Alkhuraiji A, Liu S, Oderanti FO & Megicks 2015 'New structured knowledge network for strategic decision­making in IT innovative and implementable projects' Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Conference (GIKA) 2015 Valencia, Spain 13/07/2015 16/07/2015 Valencia, Spain. GIKA Publisher Site

Oderanti F & Li F 2014 'Capitalist eHealth Businesses in the Market of UK National Health Services: A Framework for Sustainable Business Models' 14th European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2014 Valencia, Spain. 04/06/2014 07/06/2014 The European Academy of Management 1­40 Publisher Site

Oderanti FO & Li F 2013 'Servitization as a Holistic Framework for Sustainable Business Models for Ehealthcare Businesses in the UK Market' British Academy of Management (BAM) 2013 Liverpool,

Oderanti FO & De Wilde P 2012 'Uncertainty in Business Decisions and Fuzzy Games Approach' 12th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence. 2012 Edinburgh 05/09/2012 07/09/2012 , DOI

Oderanti FO & Li F 2012 'Commercialisation of Assisted Living Technologies and Services: A framework for sustainable business models' The British Academy of Management (BAM). 2012. Cardiff, UK. 11/06/2012 13/06/2012

Oderanti FO & Li F 2012 'Assisted Living Technologies, Services (ALTS) and Sustainable Business Models in the Digital Economy' EIASM European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2012. Rotterdam 06/06/2012 08/06/2012

Oderanti FO & De Wilde P 2011 'Automated game approach to wage negotiation and decision problems' IEEE Xplore North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) 2011 Texas, USA 18/03/2011 20/03/2011 USA IEEE/NAFIPS 1­8 Publisher Site , DOI

Oderanti FO 2011 'Wage Increment Problems and Fuzzy Inference Approach' North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) 2011 Texas, USA 18/03/2011 20/03/2011 USA IEEE/NAFIPS 1­8 Publisher Site, DOI

Oderanti FO & De Wilde P 2010 'Fuzzy Game Approach to Investigate Impact of Poor Infrastructures on Business Profitability in Developing Economies' Chukwudebe G IEEE International Conference on Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Power and ICT in a Developing Society (NIGERCON). 2010 Abuja, Nigeria 17/06/2010 19/06/2010 Abuja, Nigeria IEEE/NIGERCON 1­12 Publisher Site

Oderanti FO & De Wilde P 2009 'Automated Fuzzy Decision Making System with Learning in Business Networks of Varying Connectivity' UKCI/IEEE UK Conference on Computational Intelligence. 2009. Nottingham, UK. 07/09/2009 09/09/2009 UKCI 1­6 Publisher Site

Teaching interests

• Information Technology Management
• Business Process Modelling
• Information Systems
• Knowledge and Information Management
• Management Information Systems & Operations
• Research Methods
• BSc project supervision
• Master Projects  supervision
• PhD supervision