Rate My Professor John Venable

John Venable is a retired Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at Curtin University, within the Faculty of Business and Law. He previously served as Associate Professor, Head of the School of Information Systems, Discipline Lead for Business Information Systems, and Director of Research in the School of Information Systems at Curtin University of Technology. Venable earned a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. His career spans over two decades at Curtin, where he advanced research in information systems methodologies. Currently, he holds a position as Research Associate at the University of West in Sweden and has served as a guest professor contributing to research and education in Business and IT.

Venable's research specializes in design science research (DSR), with a focus on evaluation frameworks, methodologies, theorizing, and ethical considerations in information systems. His highly influential publications include 'FEDS: A Framework for Evaluation in Design Science Research' (2016, with Jan Pries-Heje and Richard Baskerville, cited over 1,975 times), 'A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluation in Design Science Research' (2012, cited 952 times), 'The Role of Theory and Theorising in Design Science Research' (2006, cited 728 times), 'Strategies for Design Science Research Evaluation' (2008, cited 691 times), and 'Action Research and Design Science Research—Seemingly Similar but Decisively Dissimilar' (2009, with Juhani Iivari, cited 494 times). These works have shaped DSR practices globally, promoting rigor in artefact evaluation, formative and summative approaches, and integration of theory. Venable has chaired research methods tracks at conferences like ECIS 2011, delivered DSR workshops at UNU-EGOV, and contributed to discussions on big data ethics and participatory action design research. With over 2,982 citations across 91 publications, his scholarship has had substantial impact on the information systems discipline.