David Targett

David Targett MA PhD

David Targett is Professor of Information Management at the Management School of Imperial College London. After working in industry, he held academic posts at the London Business School and the University of Bath's Management School before moving to Imperial College London in 1998. He has extensive experience of teaching courses in decision sciences and information systems management for undergraduates as well as MSc and MBA students and executives. He was part of the team that developed the London Business School's Executive MBA programme and he led the design of a new MSc in strategic information systems at the University of Bath. At the University of Bath, he created the Centre for Research into Strategic Information Systems (CRSIS) and was its first director. His main research interests are the strategic role of information systems (IS), including ecommerce, business forecasting, the evaluation of IS investments, and government policy on IT.

His projects include IS evaluation and decision-making, strategic outsourcing as a part of competitive strategy, ecommerce, and entrepreneurship for SMEs, all funded by industrial and government sponsors. ICE-CREAM (Interactive Consumption of Entertainment in Consumer-responsive, Engaging and Active Media) is a multimillion-euro project funded by the EU and industrial partners and is concerned with the business exploitation of digital television. He has consulted for a wide range of organisations. Recent assignments have included a confidential report on IT investments for the UK Treasury and participation in the Cabinet Office's review of government IT projects. In 2000, he was appointed specialist adviser on ecommerce to the House of Lords Select Committee on Europe. He is one of four judges for the UK Ebusiness Awards, sponsored by the Institute of Directors, and a member of the editorial board of the US journal Information and Management.