Roos Erkelens

Background

About Roos Erkelens

Rose is passionate about designing and managing business transformations. She has over 10 years experience in leading large international change projects focused on technology, business, cultural and leadership change, as well as helping people adopting new ways of working. She advices senior leadership in strategic decision making and collaborates to build adequate governance for execution. Her background in research, M&A, organizational capability and change management provides her her drive to turn vision into reality. Rose currently works in the Organization transformation area of Deloitte's Human Capital practice in the Netherlands and she has worked (internationally) for companies like Mediq, Philips, Shell, Ahold, Mercedes-Benz, MOD, IND, Oce (Canon)and Akzo Nobel. Next to this she is bestuursvoorzitter at Ecostroom.net, a cooperation in solar energy. She has publications in several books, strategic management journal and academy of management proceedings. Her PhD research at the VU University Amsterdam enabled her to persue her interest in the subject of managing complex knowledge in geographically dispersed settings, from an innovation point of view. The central issue of her PhD research is the integration of expert and process knowledge in distributed research and development, primarily in high-tech organizations. She conducted studies in companies as Shell, Philips, Océ, and Akzo Nobel. Rose has been a member of the Knowledge, Innovation, and Networks-Research group (KIN) at the VU University Amsterdam. She gave classes in knowledge management, knowledge and innovation networks and regularly still provides lectures at several universities. Rose has been a representative at large for OCIS (Organizational Communication and Information Systems), which is a department of the Academy of Management.