Dr Walter Fernandez

• Business Information Systems and E-Commerce
• Management

Project Management (Major Projects and e-Government Projects)
Project management in the creation of sustainable industries
Interfirm Collaborative Projects
Cost and Collaborative Projects
Effects of trust-based decisions on project cost and execution
Managing complexity and the unexpected in IT projects

• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN7024 Project Management Principles (Sem 2)
• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN8062 Managing Major Projects: The Cross-boundary Project Executive ()
• Lecturer, INFS3059 Project Management and Information Systems (Sem 2)

Co-Director, National Centre for Information Systems Research (NCISR)
Ethics Integrity Officer, College of Business and Economics
Member of the CBE Research Committee

Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Member of International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2.
Member of Association for Information Systems.
Member of the Australian Association for Information Systems.
Member of the Canberra Business Council's Innovation Task Force
Charter Member of the AIS Special Interest Group for Information Technology Project Management (SIGITProjMgmt)
Inaugural Chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Grounded Theory Methodology(SIGGTM).

Nguyen, V., Fernández, W. D. (2009). BRIDGING THE GAPS: PACKAGED SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM. The 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 8-10 2009.

Cha, K., Gregor, S., Fernández, W. D. (2008). Towards a deeper understanding of IT-enabled transformation. The 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Christchurch, New Zealand, December 3-5 2008. (Best Paper Award).

Fernández, W. D., Bergvall-Kerenborn, B., Djordjevic, M. A., Lovegrove, K., Fernandez-Velasco, J., Talent, .M. (2008). How IS Design can Contribute to Major Climate Change Mitigation Projects. 4th Information Systems Foundation Workshop, 2008, Design Science Research in Information Systems, Canberra, Australia. October 2008.

Thomas, G., Fernández, W. D. (2008). Success in IT Projects: A matter of definition? International Journal of Project Management.

Thomas, G., Seddon, P., Fernández, W. D. (2008). Effective IT Project Evaluation. In Irani and Love (Ed.), Evaluating Information Systems, Elsevier.

Thomas, G., Fernández, W. D. (2007). The Elusive Target of IT Project Success, The 2nd International Research Workshop of the Special Interest Group for Information Technology Project Management, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2007. (Best paper award)

Lehmann, H and Fernández, W. D. (2007). Adapting the Grounded Theory Method for Information Systems Research, QualIT 2007, Wellington, New Zealand.

Robinson, M., Fernández, W. D., Goode, S. (2007). Strategic Supply Chain Management in a Large Bakery. The 51st Annual Meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.

Thomas, G., Seddon, P., Fernández, W. D. (2007). IT Project Evaluation: Is More Formal Evaluation Necessarily Better? The 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Auckland, New Zealand. (Nominated for Best Paper Award).

Urquhart, C. and W. D. Fernandez (2006). Grounded Theory Method: The Researcher as Blank Slate and Other Myths. The International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Gregor, S. D., Martin, M. A., Fernandez, W. D., Stern, S. E., & Vitale, M. R. (2006). The transformational dimension in the realization of business value from information technology. Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Fernandez, W., Martin, M., Gregor, S., Stern, S., Vitale, M. (2006) A Multi-Paradigm Approach to Grounded Theory, The 3rd Biennial ANU Workshop on Information Systems Foundations, 27-28 Sep 2006, Canberra, Australia

Fernández, W. D., & Lehmann, H. P. (2005). Achieving Rigour and Relevance in Information Systems Studies - Using Grounded Theory to Investigate Organisational Cases. The Grounded Theory Review: An international journal, 5 (1) November 2005, pp. 979-107.

Gregor, S.D., Fernández, W.D., Holtham, D., Martin, M.A., Stern, S.E., and Vitale, M.R. Achieving Value from ICT: Key Management Strategies Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Canberra, 2005.

Fernandez, W. D. (2005). Trust Placement Process in Metateam Projects. In D. M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Information Science and Technology: Idea Group Inc.

Fernandez, W. D. (2004). Using the Glaserian Approach in Grounded Studies of Emerging Business Practices. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 2(2), 83-94.

Fernandez, W. D. (2004). The Grounded Theory Method and Case Study Data in IS Research: Issues and Design. Paper presented at the Information Systems Foundations Workshop: Constructing and Criticising, Canberra, Australia.

Fernandez, W. D. (2004). The Glaserian Approach and Emerging Business Practices in Information Systems Management: Achieving relevance through conceptualisation. Paper presented at the The 3rd European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Reading, UK.

Fernandez, W. D. (2003). Metateams in Major Information Technology Projects: A grounded theory of conflict, trust, communication and cost. Unpublished Unpublished PhD Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

Fernández, W. D. (2003). Trust and the Trust Placement Process in Metateam Projects. In D. Pauleen (Ed.), Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes (pp. 40-69): Idea Group Inc.

Fernández, W. D., & Underwood, A. (2003, 19-21 June 2003). Emerging Organisations: Metateams in Major IT Projects. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the XIth European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2002: New Paradigms in Organisations, Markets and Society, Naples, Italy.

Fernández, W. D., Lehmann, H. P., & Underwood, A. (2002). Rigour and Relevance in Studies of IS Innovation: A Grounded Theory Methodology approach. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Xth European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2002: Information Systems and the Future of the Digital Economy, Gdansk, Poland.

Fernández, W. D., & Underwood, A. (2001). Metateams in Major IT Projects: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.

PhD Research Students under Dr Fernández's supervision and their general research topic

Mr Edgar Montalvo, implementation of learning management systems
Mr Peter Radoll, use of ICT in Australian Aboriginal communities
Mr Vuong Nguyen, governance of major projects in Vietnam
Mr Graeme Thomas, Evaluation of IT and E-Business Projects

Dr Walter Fernandez is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the National Centre for Information Systems Research at the College of Business and Economics, the Australian National University. He moved into academe in 2003 after a successful career designing, developing, managing and implementing innovative information systems in the corporate sector. His two decades of work in industry, half of that time as a project manager, provides a practical perspective to his research work. Since 1998 Walter has been managing and/or researching multimillion-dollar, highly complex projects involving multiple firms and multiple teams. Dr Fernandez’s research focus include: management of major projects, interorganizational/interdisciplinary collaborative projects, effects of trust-based decisions on project cost, managing conflict and complexity in major projects and achieving value from ICT investments. Dr Fernandez is an expert on grounded theory methodology; he has delivered seminars and workshops in several Australasian and European countries on this topic. He is the Inaugural Chair of the Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group on Grounded Theory Methodology.