Michael is Academic Director of Cambridge Digital Innovation and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as Head of the Organisation Theory & Information Systems group, Director (Associate Dean) of Programmes, and Director of the MPhil in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation (ISO) programme at Cambridge Judge Business School. He has published in many top-tier IS (information systems) and organisation journals, and has won several best paper awards at EGOS and the Academy of Management (AOM). In 2016, Michael was awarded the Distinguished Scholar award by the OCIS division of the AOM.
Professor Barrett is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Information & Organization journal responsible for the RICK section, and is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. He has held several editorial responsibilities including: Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, Associate Editor of Information Systems Research; Senior Editor of Information & Organization and Senior Editor of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. Michael has also served as a member of the Editorial Board of Organization Science. He has contributed to articles in The Economist, The Times, and The Financial Post, and has served as an external examiner at Oxford University, the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics.
Professor Barrett has served on the Steering Board of the Cambridge Service Alliance and as a member of the Management Executive Group of the knowledge translation research group Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). He was co-lead for implementation of this £9.6m multidisciplinary grant between 2008-2013. As part of the ESRC's Expert Advisory Group, he currently helps inform their strategic engagement of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF); a £1.5b fund distributed across multiple delivery partners to be spent on international development research over five years.
Michael has worked as an industrial engineer for Colgate Palmolive and won the Most Valuable Employee award for consulting and business development at Oracle Canada. He continues to work closely in research and executive education for a number of organisations, including Thomson Reuters, Statoil, Bank of China, China Mobile, BT, IBM, HP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coventry Building Society, Shell Exploration, and the World Health Organization.
Michael is Academic Lead for the following CDBB funded projects on the Digital Innovation and Policy theme:
- AI and Service Innovation;
- The Smart Digital Hospital of the Future ;
- The use of Co-Innovation and Digital Twins for developing Smart Villages
