Eilif Trondsen

Interview

• "Services-on-demand on the Internet" (Chicago, 20/07/1998)

Biography

Program Director of the Business Intelligence Center (BIC), Eilif Trondsen studied economics at San Jose State University and was awarded a PhD in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Eilif Trondsen's focus area of research and consulting is technology-enabled learning and E-Commerce. He has 20 years' experience at SRI, leading or contributing to a variety of projects for U.S. and foreign clients in the private an public sectors.

For ten years, Eilif held the position of Research Director of the Business Intelligence Program (B-I-P) and currently is Program Director of B-I-P as well as SRI's Learning on Demand LoD) program.

The projects that Eilif has participated in or led include: evaluation of emerging selected U.S. e-commerce trends and opportunities and the implications for a large Japanese manufacturing company; a scenario-based analysis of the future maritime industry in the context of Internet and E-Commerce developments; an assessment of future business opportunities in the engineering and construction industry in the Middle East for a leading construction company in that region; evaluation of US-AID of private-sector support programs in seven countries in southern Africa; strategic-management planning through scenario analysis for a number of large multinational companies

In the last 3-4 years he has given numerous presentations on various E-Commerce and technology-enabled learning topics at conferences and to SRI clients around the world.

Bibliography

Recent publications include:

• Learning on Demand: Building Knowledge-Based Companies; Fujitsu Management Review, No. 197, Winter 1998
• Learning on Demand; Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1998

SRI Publications:

• Technology-enabled learning in sales & marketing, customer service & support, and operations; May 1999.
• Knowledge vectors: How to compete in an emerging high-growth industry; April 1999
• The new world of technology-based learning; November 1998
• Electronic commerce: Current and future perspectives; September 1998
• Business-to-business e-commerce scenarios; June 1998
• Transforming business through electronic commerce; May 1998
• Innovation in the container industry: A scenario-based analysis of innovation; January 1998