Staff profiles
Professor If Price
PhD BSc FGS MIPetrol
Phone 0114 225 4032
E-mail i.price@shu.ac.uk
If's role is primarily to develop the centre's academic research and research based consulting activities. He directs the centre's DBA and PhD programmes.
If has a PhD in Geology, and as a geologist worked and lived in many parts of the world before becoming manager of research and then head of business process review for BP Exploration. In that role he spent two years benchmarking change and organisational improvement world-wide. Lessons from that experience are still incorporated in all the centre's academic activities. If's special interests are the processes of innovation, and change in organisations, including applications of Systems Thinking and the Unwritten Rules and Complexity. He has pioneered the application of modern evolutionary theory to organisational design.
'Startlingly original', 'better than Tom Peters' and 'makes connections no one else has made' were early reviewers comments, on Shifting the Patterns; a book by If and a colleague Ray Shaw. Conversation and thinking shape organisations, and create resistance to change. The challenge of the future to create the conversations for value adding FM and workplaces are already starting through our expanding programme of Research and Application Forums. If has developed the argument through a number of papers especially The Complex Adaptive Workplace (2004), Business Critical FM (2004), and Lean Assets (2007).
In November 2001 If accepted a position as adjunct professor of facility management with the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney.
Recent achievements
- acknowledged and consulted by public bodies such as CABE, OGC, Audit Commission for work connected to impact of built environment on business; Invited contributor to an international FM textbook, a special issue of the California Management Review and the Routledge Companion to Creativity
- reviewer for EPSRC on projects related to both Complexity and Facilities Management, advisor to the chair of the RICS FM faculty Steering Group member for CABE projects on office space.
- Work Foundation Launch Conference (only researcher invited) April 2002; FMA Australia Keynote Address Sydney 2003; BIFM Scotland Key Note Address to Conference 2004; CIPD Annual Conference Harrogate Session Chair 2005; Addresses to annual conferences of AUDE, COPROP and ACES.
- Journal of Facilities Management; Facilities; Euro FM Research Conference
- a demonstration of the role of leadership networks in clean hospitals (with Rachel Macdonald)
Selected publications
In prep
- Lean Health Assets May
- Open plan and academe: pre and post hoc conversations with Jill Fortune
- The Selfish Signifier: Mutation of meaning in management fashions (submitted after review)
- Leadership networks with Rachel Macdonald
2008
Space to adapt: Workplaces, creative behaviour and organizational memetics, In Rickards, T. Runce M. and Moger S., Eds., Routledge Companion to Creativity, London Routledge in press R
2007
Lean Assets: New language for new workplaces California Management Review, Special Issue on Workplace Design 49 (2) 102-118 The Lean Asset
2005
Application of data envelope analysis to benchmark building outputs Facilities 13 (10/11) 473-486 with James Pinder
2004
Quantifying the Complex Adaptive Workplace Facilities 22 (1/2) 8-18 with B Haynes
The boundaries to workplace evaluation, Futures in Facilities and Property Management II, London wth Clark, E.V., Haynes B., Pinder, J.A
Business Critical FM Facilities 22 (13/14) 353-358
Space for emergence: The office at the edge of chaos Complexity Society Conference, Manchester
Complexity, complicatedness and complexity: A new science of organisational intervention. Emergence: Complexity and Organisation 6 (1/2) 68-76
2002
The History of FM In Best, R., Di Valence, G. and Langston, C. Eds Building In Value: Workplace Strategies And Facility Management, Butterworth-Heinemann
Can FM Evolve, Journal of Facilities Management, 1(1) 58-69
The Complex Adaptive Workspace, Complexity in Manufacturing conference, Cambridge
Markets as Evolving Complex Systems: FM in the UK with S Lunn, A Lord and P. Stephenson, Complexity in Manufacturing conference Cambridge
Quantifying the Complex Adaptive Workplace. with B Haynes Glasgow CIB70 Conference
The Impact of Facilities on Student Choice of University With F Matzdorf, L Smith and H Agahi Glasgow Cib70 Conference (current nomination for best paper award)
The Impact of Facilities on Student Choice of University. Facilities 21 (10) 212-222
2001
Reconstruction of organisational phylogeny from memetic similarity analysis: Proof of feasibility Journal of Memetics Vol 5 No 2 11pp
Input Versus Output Based Performance Measurement in the NHS - The Current Situation Facilities Vol 19 No 10 pp. 344-356 with R Heavisides
FM Policies and Standards as a Knowledge Management System Facilities Vol 19 No 13/14 pp 504-514 with J Puddy and L Smith
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