User:David Ing
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David Ing is the Vice-President of Communications and Systems Education for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (elected for two 2-year terms, 2005-2009). He has been active with the society since 1998, leading the Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry since 2002.
David has had a long career at IBM since 1985. His earliest assignments were in headquarters planning (in Canada) and retail industry market development. Beginning in 1994, he was trained and deployed as one of the earlier management consultants in the IBM Consulting Group, out of Dallas and then Boston. In 1997, he led a First-of-a-Kind research project with the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. From 1998 to 2000, he was assigned to the IBM Advanced Business Institute, at Palisades, New York, working with Steve Haeckel as the "Adaptive Enterprise" book was developed and launched. In 2001, he was assigned to work with the Net Generation Business unit, leading business strategy workshops in Asia. From 2002 through 2006, he was a senior managing consultant with IBM Business Innovation Services (then renamed IBM Business Consulting Services and IBM Global Business Services). Since mid-2006, he has been with IBM Software Group, Industry Solution Sales, as a business value assessment consultant, assisting IBM customers across North America to clarify the benefits and business impact of new information technologies.
Between 2006 and 2008, David has been working as a senior researcher with the Rendez project in Finland. This project is centered out of Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia (led by Taina Tukiainen) and funded by Tekes (the Finnish agency for Innovation and Technology) and leading corporate sponsors such as IBM Finland and Nokia. In 2006 and 2007, he was honoured with an appointment as a research fellow with the Centre for Systems Studies at the Business School of the University of Hull. David was a co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Marketing Information Technologies at the University of Toronto in 1990, and authored and taught a course on "Marketing Information Technologies" in the M.B.A. program, for two years.
David joined the Ph.D. program at the Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management in 2003, and is working towards completing his dissertation. He had previously studied in the Ph.D. program at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration between 1982 and 1984. He received a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1982. Prior to that, he received a Bachelor Commerce degree from Trinity College, at the University of Toronto, in 1980.