Dr Roy Woodhead BSc hons, PhD (Leeds)
Senior Lecturer in Digital Innovation
- Department of Finance Accounting And Business Systems
- Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
- Social and Economic Research Institute
Summary
Roy joined SHU in 2017 and is an expert in large scale innovation. His main teaching and research interests are innovation, digital innovation, business analytics, value engineering and organisational learning. He has over thirty years industrial experience ranging from the construction industry, upstream oil & gas and to the cutting edge of enterprise-compute for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
About
Roy has considerable experience of driving business change using a combination of organisational learning, business analysis, project management and general management consulting within the IT industry. He has played a leading role in driving innovation in some of the world’s largest projects including examples of value engineering and value management in major oil field projects providing companies with over $1 billion in efficiency savings in the process. His industry experience involved building and testing new theories as a way to connect employees to performance and his teaching and research is aligned to his work in the external sector. Roy is interested in how organisations can adapt to link digital innovation (e.g. IoT, AI, ML etc) to business models as a way to evolve as new value is created, and actively researches in these areas. Underpinning his practice is a keen interest in the Philosophy of Technology.
Teaching
Department of Finance, Accounting and Business Systems
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Subject area
Business Systems - Digital Transformation and Digital Innovation
Courses
BA (hons) Business Analytics
BSc (hons) Financial Trading and Investment Management
MSc International Business Management
Modules
Introduction to Trading Algorithms,
Requirements Management,
Business Statistics,
Data Science
Research
- Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
- Social and Economic Research Institute
Current Projects
Currently exploring a way to automate invention in large complex engineering projects with AI. Also collaborating in a project looking at robotics to address a particular set of challenges in a dangerous environment.
Relevant Projects
- Predictive analytics in the stock market
- Digital Transformation as strategy
- Philosophy of Technology
Featured Projects
Students develop app that could revolutionise takeaway food industry
Publications
Journal articles
Saroji, G., Berawi, M.A., Sari, M., Madyaningarum, N., Socaningrum, J.F., Susantono, B., & Woodhead, R. (2022). Optimizing the development of power generation to increase the utilization of renewable energy sources. International Journal of Technology, 13 (7), 1422. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v13i7.6189
Berawi, M.A., Sari, M., Salsabila, A.A., Susantono, B., & Woodhead, R. (2022). Utilizing building information modelling in the tax assessment process of apartment buildings. International Journal of Technology, 13 (7), 1515. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v13i7.6188
Woodhead, R., & Berawi, M.A. (2022). Evolution of value engineering to automate invention in complex technological systems. International Journal of Technology, 13 (01), 80-91. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v13i1.4984
Woodhead, R., & Berawi, M.A. (2020). Value Creation And The Pursuit Of Multi Factor Productivity Improvement. International Journal of Technology, 11 (1), 111-122. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i1.3364
Berawi, M.A., Suwartha, N., Fathiya Salsabila, F.S., Gunawan, G., Perdana Miraj, P.M., & Woodhead, R. (2019). Land Value Capture Modeling in Commercial and Office Areas using a Big Data Approach. International Journal of Technology, 10 (6), 1150. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v10i6.3640
Woodhead, R. (2018). Building a smarter city. International Journal of Technology, 9 (7), 1509-1517. http://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v9i7.2734
Woodhead, R., Stephenson, P., & Morrey, D. (2018). Digital construction: From point solutions to IoT ecosystem. Automation in Construction, 93, 35-46. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.05.004
Woodhead, R. (2012). What is Technology? International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 4 (2), 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/jskd.2012040101
Woodhead, R.M., & Berawi, M.A. (2008). An alternative theory of idea generation. International Journal of Management Practice, 3 (1), 1. http://doi.org/10.1504/ijmp.2008.016044
Woodhead, R., Ball, F., & Li, X. (2004). Silk flowers are just as artificial as plastic ones: value engineering in the university context. European Journal of Engineering Education, 29 (3), 333-341. http://doi.org/10.1080/03043790310001658569
Woodhead, R., & Smith, J. (2002). The decision to build and the organisation. Structural Survey, 20 (5), 189-198. http://doi.org/10.1108/02630800210456832
WOODHEAD, R.M., & DOWNS, C.G. (2002). FACILITATION AS A RESEARCH METHOD TO IMPROVE VALUE MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES. Journal of Construction Research, 03 (02), 209-216. http://doi.org/10.1142/s1609945102000205
Conference papers
Woodhead, R. (2021). Being Smarter in the Pursuit of a Smart City. In Skhvediani, A., Grigorievich, R.D., & Yuryevna, K.A. (Eds.) 3rd International Scientific Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy: SPBPU IDE-2021, St. Petersburg, Russia, 14 October 2021 - 15 October 2021. St. Petersburg, Russia: Graduate School of Industrial Economics, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia: http://ide.spbstu.ru/
Other activities
Member of editorial board for International Journal of Technology.
Postgraduate supervision
DBA supervision looking at Digital Transformation and also Medical Device innovation MSc supervision looking at IoT and Blockchain in the context of Logistics.