Arnoud Franken
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
Cranfield University
United Kingdom
Biography
Early in his career as a mechanical engineer, Dr Arnoud Franken appreciated that advanced technology alone cannot make change happen. Getting people to adopt new ideas and start behaving in particular ways requires more. Inspired to find out how to lead change that people are keen to rally around, he set out on a journey that bridged the worlds of engineering, the military, and business. As a Senior Lecturer in Change Management at Cranfield School of Management, he has worked with senior managers and executives of a wide range of organisations, including EMC 2, GSK, IHG, Jaguar Land Rover, L’Oréal, Rolls-Royce, NATO SHAPE, UK Ministry of Defence, Swiss Re and Virgin Atlantic. He has published his research with Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. In 2015 he was granted the Cranfield School of Management Teaching and Learning Award.
Research Interest
Dr. Franken's research interests focus on Campaign Planning Approach for Modern Security Environments.
Publications
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Franken A & Thomsett H (2013) When It Takes a Network: Creating Strategy and Agility through Wargaming, California Management Review, 55 (3) 107-133.
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Daniel EM, Ward JM & Franken A (2014) A dynamic capabilities perspective of IS project portfolio management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 23 (2) 95-111.
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Franken A (2015) Wargaming - What Have You Got To Lose?, Defence Global (May) 80-81.
