Dr Junichi lijima from Japanese partner University Tokyo Institute of Technology has been appointed Adjunct Professor to IVI

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 12:30

Dr. Junichi Iijima has been appointed to the Innovation Value Institute as an Adjunct Professor. Dr Iijima has been involved in collaborative research with Prof. Brian Donnellan, Michael Hanley and colleagues at IVI for a number of years. In 2017 and 2018 he collaborated with IVI, the Department of Design Innovation and the International Office to develop a one week short-term programme in Design Thinking and Design Science for student researchers and colleagues.

Dr Iijima is a professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering,  the Director of the Career Advancement Professional Academy, the former Director of CBEC (the Cross-Border Entrepreneur Cultivation) Program, a former Dean of the School of Decision Science and Technology (April,2011 -March,2013), Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN. His major interests are on Business Process Modeling, IT Value and Systems Theory. He was a former president of JASMIN (the Japan Society for Management Information), which is the largest society related to Information Systems in Japan. He is a member of Task Force on Electronic Administrative Service in Japanese Government and a Vice President of the Japan Society of Business Process Management.

Further Japanese Summer programmes at MU are under discussion for future years.