Dr Vivek Venugopal
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation
- Kingston Business School
- Kingston Hill
- Behaviour, Business and Policy
Lecturer in Strategy & International Business
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone number:
- +44 (0) 208 417 5995
About
I am a Lecturer in the business school, and I teach Strategic Management. My research interests are Strategic Foresight – Scenario planning and Horizon Scanning, and in Machine Learning & AI. My ongoing research in strategic foresight is in the hybrid approach to strategic foresight through machine learning and human insights. In the field of ML, my research interest on the effects of LLMs on decision making within the context of strategic management.
I have an MBA from a top tier b-school from Germany. And before this I have worked for more than 10 years in various managerial roles within a manufacturing SME setting.
Qualifications
- MBA, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
- BBM
- Diploma in Machine Learning
- PhD, University of Strathclyde
Domains
My research interests are:
- Strategic management
- Scenario planning
- Horizon scanning
- Machine learning - NLP, Text summarisation, text classification, and topic modelling
I have presented papers in conference in the UK:
- VENUGOPAL, V., ATES, A. & MCKIERNAN, P. 2022. Revisiting Ansoff's weak signals – A systematic literature review. 36th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management. Manchester, United Kingdom
- VENUGOPAL, V., ATES, A. & MCKIERNAN, P. 2022. Machine learning for literature classification during systematic literature review – Establishing the minimum threshold for labelling papers. 36th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management. Manchester, United Kingdom.
- Venugopal, V, Gokmen, G & Sunner, A 2021, 'Open strategy and open foresight: conceptual position and directions for research', Paper presented at 35th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management