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Richard Fulford

Richard Fulford

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Centre for Innovative Practice

Dr Richard Fulford

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5256  
Facsimile: (61 8)  6304 5988  
Email: r.fulford@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.449  

 

Current teaching

  • MAN5702 - Project Costing
  • MBA5708/MBA5713 - Business Strategy
  • MIS57615 - Introduction to Enterprise resource Planning
  • MBA5608 - Supply Chain Management

Background

Richard Fulford has a commendable commercial background spanning 25 years that includes business management and business consultation. His knowledge has been gained through multi-national business and IT management, with roles as Managing Director of an IBM business partner providing ERP software and systems and Managing Director of a subsidiary of a 1300 employee public company.

Richard has completed two research dissertations concerning strategic business management and the relationship between IT planning and strategic management. He has also completed his PhD studies concerning the ongoing benefits and cost management of large scale information systems.

Staff qualifications

  • PhD

Professional memberships

  • Australian Institute of Management, British Computer Society

Awards and recognition

  • 2008 - Faculty of Business and Law, Deans Award for Publishing in a High Impact Journal.
  • 2006 - Faculty of Business and Law, Deans Award for Teaching.

Research

Current research areas

  • Project costing in construction and IT industries.  
  • Educating with information systems.  
  • Strategic management of enterprise resource planning applications.  
  • Productivity in the resource sector.  
  • Member of the centre of innovative practice sub-groups: Individual innovation, innovative research processes.  

Recent research grants

  • 2012 - 2013, A review of the potential for improvement in resource sector - a scoping study. Faculty of Business and Law Strategic Research Funding. Researchers: Dr Richard Fulford, Dr Ghialy Yap, Prof Craig Standing, Prof Ross Dowling & Dr Susanne Bahn.
  • 2012 - Encouraging innovative PhD research. Researchers: Dr P. Dobson., Dr Susanne Bahn, A/Professor Barrat-Pugh, Dr Richard Fulford, Dr Denise Gengatharen and Dr Ann-Claire Larsen).
  • 2004 - Information Systems Enabled Corporate Transformation: Evaluation of Electronic Customer Relationship Management in the Service Sector.  Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant. Researchers: Prof P.E. Love., Dr C. Standing., Dr P. Dobson., Mr G. Dunba., & Mr R.G. Fulford. 

Recent publications

Books

  • Fulford,R (2009). Managing Operational Enterprise Resource Planning Applications. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG. Saarbrucken, Deutschland.

Refereed journal articles

  • Fulford, R.(forthcoming). A case study of strategic enterprise resource planning management in a global corporation. Journal of Systems and Information Technology.
  • Fulford, R. & Love, P.E.D. (2004). Propagation of an alternative enterprise service application adoption model. Industrial Management & Data Systems Journal.

Conference papers

  • Dobson, P., Fulford, R., Barratt-Pugh, LGB., Bahn, S., Gengatharen, D. & Larsen, A-C. (December 2012). Eureka moments in research: Exploring abductive processes using four case examples, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) 2012, 3-5thDecember, Geelong, Australia. 
  • Fulford, R. (2011). Effective Education Using Information Systems As Cognitive Tools (Dynamics Ax). Microsoft academic Conference, Atlanta, USA.
  • Fulford, R. (2010). The changing role of higher education. InCULT Conference, Herefordshire: UK.
  • Fulford, R. (2008). A Case Study of Online Situated Learning – Educating Using an Enterprise Resource Planning Application. Ed-Media 2008, Vienna: Austria. 
  • Fulford, R. (2008). Educating with Information System. EDU-COM2008, Khon Kaen: Thailand. 
  • Fulford, R. (2007). An explorative study of the management and evaluation of operational enterprise resource planning applications. Eleventh Asia Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS Doctoral Consortium) Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Fulford, R.(2007). An explorative study of the ongoing management of operational enterprise resource planning applications. Conference on Information Management and Internet Research (CIMR). Perth.
  • Fulford, R. (2006). Propagation of an initial model for evaluating operational enterprise systems.  17th Australian Conference of Information Systems, Adelaide.
  • Fulford, R. (2005). Propagation of a framework relating IT evaluation methods to an organisation’s strategic context. Australian Conference of Information Systems, Sydney.
  • Fulford, R. (2003). A Conceptual Model for ERP ASP Adoption. Seventh Asia Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Adelaide.
  • Love, P.E.D., Irani, Z, Themistocleous, M., & Fulford, R. (2003). IS Evaluation: Implications for Delivering Business Value in a Networked. Environment. The 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide. 
  • Fulford, R. (2003). An Investigation into the Value Proposition of ERP Application Hosting. 4th International We-B Conference 2003, Perth.
  • Love, P.E.D., Irani, Z., & Fulford, R. (2003). Understanding IT Costs: An Exploratory Study using the Structured Case Method.  Seventh Asia Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Adelaide.