BSc (UNSW), Applied Maths BSc (Hons) (UNSW), Computer Science PhD (UNSW), Information Systems and Operations Research Dr Jeff Barker has followed both academic and commercial pursuits since completing his PhD at the University of New South Wales whilst employed as a Senior Tutor at Sydney University. With Dr Brian Cohen and Dr Ria Follett, he co-founded the Scientia group of companies in the late 1970’s which became IBA Health, the largest global e-health company outside the USA. It changed its trading name to iSoft in May, 2009. With Dr Graham McMahon (who later joined Bond) in the early 1980’s, he produced a fully interactive, dynamic, finite capacity planning and scheduling package, now known as an APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling System) or APO for SAP. It is believed to be the first commercially available APS in the world. Similar systems developed later included software from companies such as i2, Manugistics, Numetrix, APO from SAP, etc. He was invited and agreed to release SAP’s APO product in Australasia. Due to his growing specialisation in strategy and business process transformation, he was invited to join a committee of international experts to design and set up the European Commission’s Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) - an electronic market place for all European companies & individuals. He continues his commercial interests as a non-executive director and as an executive director of Australian and overseas companies. In his academic pursuits over many years, he has been a senior academic to the level of Pro-Vice Chancellor, including an interesting and enjoyable time as a Dean at Abu Dhabi University in the UAE. He has received research grants from the CSIRO and the ARC. He currently continues his research in transforming IG2 systems into IG3 (Information Generation 3 - the emerging information age) with particular interests in education, intelligent products, demand networks (SCM) and logistics. He has been a member of editorial and review boards of international journals and book publishers. PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE Australianised versions of MCBA ERP and manufacturing packages. Medical e-health packages which eventually became the November 2008 globally released Lorenzo e-health suite. OPS, a fully online, interactive, dynamic, APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling System) package, believed to be the first commercially available APS in the world. SBM (TOC) manufacturing and SCM software. A full suite of ERP Packages. SAGA; a C application generator.
Articles
Viewing demand networks with intelligent products as digital business ecosystems (with Gavin R. Finnie), Information Technology papers (2009)
The business digital ecosystem is based on autonomous proactive agents that act for their own...
Dynamic interactive learning systems (with Khaled Sabry), Information Technology papers (2009)
This paper reviews and discusses the notions of interactivity and dynamicity of learning systems in...
U-commerce and trust in digital ecosystems (with Gavin Finnie and Hong Shi), Information Technology papers (2007)
The digital ecosystem model provides a useful paradigm to view the interaction of competing and...
Real-time business intelligence in multi-agent adaptive supply networks (with Gavin Finnie), Information Technology papers (2005)
The increasing speed and complexity of inter-organisational communication in supply networks requires effective automation. Multi-agent...
Book Chapters
The next generation demand network in quick response systems: Intelligent products, packet switching and dynamic information (with Gavin Finnie), Innovative quick response programs in logistics and supply chain management (2010)
This chapter discusses several innovations in information and communication technology and develops their potential to...