David C. Wyld

The Age of Remote Work: How COVID-19 Transformed Organizations in Real Time

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In almost the blink of an eye, the pandemic changed shopping, dining, socializing, travel, and most assuredly the world of work.

David C. Wyld

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David C. Wyld serves as the Merritt Professor of Strategic Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Over the past two decades, Dr. Wyld has written several research reports for the IBM Center for The Business of Government, highlighting emerging issues in technology and procurement. He is a frequent contributor to both respected academic journals and widely read trade and general interest publications, approaching almost a thousand published articles in all to date. Dr.

David C. Wyld

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David C. Wyld serves as the Merritt Professor of Strategic Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Over the past two decades, Dr. Wyld has written several research reports for the IBM Center for The Business of Government, highlighting emerging issues in technology and procurement. He is a frequent contributor to both respected academic journals and widely read trade and general interest publications, approaching almost a thousand published articles in all to date. Dr.

Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement

Submitted by on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 10:25

In this report, Professor Wyld provides the first quantitative analysis of tail spend in the federal government.  In short, tail spend is procurement outlays that are outside of an organization’s core spending and core supplier groups, covering many miscellaneous expenditure categories that are not managed as part of an organization’s core operations.

Reverse Auctioning: Saving Money and Increasing Transparency

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Simply put, reverse auctions are auctions that enable sellers to “bid down” prices for their goods and services. The use of reverse auctions has substantially increased since Wyld’s initial report in 2000, albeit at a slower pace than anticipated in the earlier study. This new report contains original research on the potential of reverse auctions as a government cost-saving tool that also saves time and increases transparency.

Moving to the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing in Government

Submitted by on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 19:00

Dr. Wyld examines the entry of the cloud computing phenomena into the government. He avoids the technical language and focuses on the business and societal impacts of cloud computing. He examines how this concept has changed the expectations of both the public and of government executives and managers.

Government in 3D: How Public Leaders Can Draw on Virtual Worlds

Submitted by on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 20:00

This report is an example of how Web 2.0's "teen toys" have become a serious work tool. It explores how cutting-edge government organizations are using 3-dimensional virtual worlds on the Internet to conduct training, recruit new employees, and educate the public. It also provides a guide to how virtual worlds have become a fast-growing social phenomenon that believe that, by the end of 2011, fully 80 percent of all active internet users will be participating in 3-D virtual worlds.

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Merritt Professor of Management, Department of Management and Business Administration
Southeastern Louisiana University
P.O. Box 10350
Hammond, LA 70402-0350
United States
(985) 789-2127

dwyld@selu.edu

David C. Wyld serves as the Merritt Professor of Strategic Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Over the past two decades, Dr. Wyld has written several research reports for the IBM Center for The Business of Government, highlighting emerging issues in technology and procurement. He is a frequent contributor to both respected academic journals and widely read trade and general interest publications, approaching almost a thousand published articles in all to date. Dr. Wyld takes pride in both pursuing his own primary research and assisting the research efforts of those around him. In the latter regard, he now takes an active role in mentoring students to their first publications and works with junior faculty in helping them publish their academic works. In fact, one of his career highlights is having recently authored an academic journal article with one of his two adult sons, who is himself now pursuing his doctorate and an academic career.

Over the span of his career, Dr. Wyld has established himself as one of the leading academic experts both on emerging applications of technology in the private and public sectors and on how organizations can best respond to changes in society, demographics, media, and the workplace. He also serves as the founding editor of three academic journals, the International Journal of Managing Information Technology, the International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains, and the International Journal of Managing Public Sector Information and Communication Technologies. He continues to be an active strategic management consultant, a qualified expert witness, and an invited speaker on a wide variety of topics to trade, corporate, governmental, and academic audiences. He has made appearances on management and technology issues on The Discovery Channel, ESPN Radio, Federal News Radio, and other media outlets.

Dr. Wyld has earned Southeastern’s President’s Award for both Excellence in Teaching and Research, making him one of a select group of faculty who have been awarded campus-wide recognition for more than one aspect of the professorial role. He earned his doctorate from the University of Memphis in 1993.