Enrique Dans

Born in La Coruña, in May 14, 1965, Enrique Dans is one of the most prominent Spanish academics in the fields of technology adoption, entrepreneurship and innovation. He graduated with a Baccalaureate in Science at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1989 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at IE Business School (1989-90), before joining IE Business School as an Assistant Professor in IS/IT in September 1990. In 1996, Enrique got a grant to pursue doctoral studies at the John  E. Anderson Business School at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA): he graduated with a Ph.D. in Management in 2000, with a dissertation focused on the transition of newspapers from the paper to the screen and the measurable effects of IT adoption in small and medium enterprises.

Whilst at UCLA, Enrique worked as International Management Fellowship (IMF) Program Instructor. Once returned to Spain in 2000, Enrique rejoined IE Business School as a Full Professor and IS/IT Area Chair, and started a line of collaboration with Spanish newspapers and magazines on technology adoption, innovation, entrepreneurship and the effect of technology at the consumer, corporate and societal level of analysis. Enrique keeps a permanent presence in the Spanish media panorama, with a weekly column in the most prominent economic newspaper (Expansión) since 2001, and many articles and collaborations in other newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. He also advises online startups and consolidated companies as a consultant or a board member. The newspaper El Mundo has included him in the «Top 25 most influential people in Spain» on the Internet and Technology category every single year since 2006. Besides that, he is one of the highest ranked professors at IE Business School according to his student evaluations. He teaches several courses in the IS/IT and Entrepreneurship areas: «Innovation», «Technology immersion», «Digital journalism», «CRM», «Social web» or «Managing the tech startup» among others, with student evaluations consistently above 4 in a scale from 1 to 5. Since September 2016, he is also IE’s Senior Advisor in Innovation and Digital Transformation. He is also a visiting professor at Spain’s Diplomatic School and at the University of Oxford, and he is part of Unesco Netexplo Advisory Board.

In February 2003, Enrique started his personal page, enriquedans.com, and he has been publishing regularly every single day since then, turning it into the most influential technology page in Spanish. In 2010, he published his book, «Todo va a cambiar» («Everything is going to change») with a foreword from Vint Cerf, and became a best-seller in the management category in Spanish. He also published an online social edition of the book at todovaacambiar.com sponsored by two large companies, Banesto and El Corte Inglés, with the full text supplemented with links, pictures, videos and comments. In October 2019, Enrique released his new book, entitled «Viviendo en el futuro« («Living in the future»), and in April 2023, «Todo vuelve a cambiar» («Everything changes again»). 

Besides his daily article in his page in both Spanish and English, Enrique wrote regularly at Forbes (US Edition) between 2014 and 2021, and participates regularly in newspapers and magazines talking about technology and innovation. He also maintains a strong presence in social networks such as Twitter (the business school professor with the highest number of followers in the world), Facebook, etc. In September 2015, he got shortlisted for the prestigious Thinkers 50 award in the category «Digital thinking». In September 2016 he was awarded the Communication and Dissemination Prize from the prestigious Spanish Digital Economy Association (Adigital). He has also been included in the Forbes España Best Influencers List in the Business Category in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. 

Education

• Doctor (Ph.D.) in Management, specialized in Information Systems –  The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Postdoctoral studies – Harvard Business School
• MBA – IE Business School, Madrid
• Baccalaureate in Science – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Academic honors and grants

• Accenture Research Grant, years 2003, 2004 and 2005
• CommerceOne – SAP Research Grant, year 2001
• Principal Investigator, European Commission, Information Societies Technology (1ST) Program, e-Broker Project, years 2000 and 2001
• Byram Fellowship (UCLA), Summer 1999
• Graduate Division Fellowship (UCLA), 1999
• Cooper Fellowship (UCLA), Summer 1998
• Jan Roos Award (UCLA), years 1997, 1998 and 1999
• Shortlisted for the Thinkers 50 award in the category «Digital thinking», 2015
• Winner of the 2016 Adigital Communication Award
• Included in the «Top 25 Spaniards in tech you should follow» (Business Insider, 2018)

Academic experience and service

• Personal page at Academia.edu
• Personal page at Google Scholar
• IS/IT Professor at IE Business School since September 1990
• Senior Advisor on Innovation and Digital Transformation at IE Business School since September 2016.
• IS/IT Area Chair at IE Business School, June 2001 to January 2005
• International Management Fellowship (IMF) Program Instructor at The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, 1997-2000
• Visiting professor at Oxford University
• Member of the Editorial Board at Harvard Deusto Marketing & Ventas
• Member of the Editorial and Scientific Committee at TELOS journal
• Track Chair, Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) Annual Conference, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, 19 al 22 de Mayo de 2004
• Conference co-chair, European Conference of IT Evaluation (ECITE) 2003, Madrid
• Member of the Editorial Board for the Electronic Journal for Business Research Methods (EJBRM)
• Member of the Editorial Board at Revista de Empresa (Iberoamerican Academy of Management and Instituto de Empresa)
• Member of the Conference Committee for the European Conference on IT Evaluation (ECITE)
• Member of the Conference Committee for the European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM)
• Member of the Program Committee at IFIP joint WG 8.2 and 9.4 Conference, Athens, Greece, June 15-17, 2003
• Member of the Program Committee for the Project Management track at IRMA (Information Resources Management Association)
• Occasional reviewer for Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce,Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications (JITTA) y Journal of Global Information Management
• Member of the Netexplo University Network and member of Unesco Netexplo Advisory Board
• Senior contributor at Forbes (US Edition) from 2014 to 2021
• Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Corporate experience

• Consultant and advisor in the IS/IT area since July 1992. Projects developed for Círculo de Progreso Universitario (IT implementation – 1992), Ibermática (design and migration of business software – 1993), Madrid local administration (cash flow management – 1994), Parque de Atracciones de Madrid (financial valuation – 1994), Publicidad Gisbert (IT implementation – 1994), Barclays Bank (design, development and training of a mobile workforce – 1995), El Enebro (IS design, implementation and training – 1995), Orona (IS/IT design and evolution – 2006), Grupo USG People (activity redefinition y and business process re-engineering – 2010), Deoleo (social web strategy – 2014), and others.
• Expert witness in the case «Telecinco vs. Google», 2008
• Member of the Advisory Committee at Fundación Hazloposible (NGO)
• Board member at Fundación Horizonte XXII de la Caja Rural de Ciudad Real (NGO specialized in entrepreneurship)
• Member of Saviálogos (Banca Cívica)
• Board member at Fundación Iniciador (NGO specialized in entrepreneurship)
• Member of the Advisory Committee at The Conference Board (durante los años 2008/2009)
• Member of the Advisory Committee at Agencia del Conocimiento y la Tecnología del Gobierno de La Rioja
• Member of the Advisory Committee  at the law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo
• Committee member of the Observatorio da Sociedade da Información e a Modernización de Galicia (OSIMGA), depending on the Secretaría Xeral de Modernización e Innovación Tecnolóxica of the Galicia local government (March to May 2010)
• Founder of Lonxanet.com
• Member of the Advisory board  at Tractis
• Member of the Advisory Board at Social Media, S.L.
• Shareholder and member of the Advisory Committee at Weblogs, S.L.
• Shareholder and member of the Advisory Committee at Petuky.com
• Shareholder and member of the Advisory Committee at DoctorDoctor
• Shareholder and member of the Advisory Committee at Spotbros
• Member of the editorial committee at Web Financial Group (Bolsamanía)
• Member of the International Advisory Committee at Tecnalia
• Member of the Strategic Advisory Board at BigML
• Board member at  El Español, 2015 – 2020
• Board member at Ayuda en Acción (NGO, poverty alleviation)
• Key Opinion Leader (KOL) at Huawei
• Member of the Advisory Board for the Innovation in Justice, for the Spanish Ministry of Justice
• Included in «60 Leaders on Innovation» (2021), by George Krasadakis and Robin Nessensohn 
• Included by Forbes in «The Best Influencers 2019» in the Business category
• Included by Forbes in «The Best Influencers 2020» in the Business category
• Included by Forbes in «The Best Influencers 2021» in the Business category
• Included by Forbes in «The Best Influencers 2022» in the Business category

About the page

• More than ten thousand daily visits 
• Subscribers to the feed (data from Feedly): 54,468
• Subscribers via e-mail (data from Teenvío): 9,017
• Facebook page: 38,095 followers
• Twitter: 264,546 followers
• LinkedIn: 123,060 followers
• Regular readers on Medium (my page in English): 50,095
• Readers on Flipboard: 32,102
• Selected by El Mundo as one of the best hundred blogs in English and Spanish (2009)
• Selected by Guidance as most influential Spanish blogger in technology (December 2012)
• Included in «The top 25 Spanish accounts you should follow on Twitter«, Business Insider
• Included in the «20 most important LinkedIn influencers in Spanish«

(Updated February 2023)

Academic publications

• Dans, E.; «Internet newspapers: are some more equal than others?«, International Journal on Media Management, 2, 1, 4-13, 2000, Taylor & Francis
• Swanson, E.B.; Dans, E.; «System life expectancy and the maintenance effort: exploring their equilibration» Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), 24, 2, 277-298, 2000 
• Pauwels, K.; Dans, E.; «Internet marketing the news: leveraging brand equity from marketplace to marketspace«, Journal of Brand Management, 8, 303-314, 2001, Henry Stewart Publications (journal publication here)
• Dans, E.; «IT investment in small and medium enterprises: paradoxically productive?«, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 4, 1, 2001
• Dans, E.; «Existing business models for auctions and their adaptation to electronic markets«, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 3, 2, 23-31, 2002, Citeseer
• Dans, E.; «La empresa y la web 2.0«, Harvard Deusto Marketing & Ventas, 80, 36-43, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Educación online: plataformas educativas y el dilema de la apertura«, RUSC: Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento, 6, 1, 2009
• Dans, E.; «Sobre modas y realidades: CRM o el nuevo marketing digital«, Información Comercial Española, ICE: Revista de economía«, 791, 55-62, 2001
• Dans, E.; «Fad or trend? CRM and the new digital marketing» English version, Unpublished (2001)
• Dans, E.; «Blogs y empresa. Una aproximación a la vanguardia de la blogosfera corporativa«, Telos: Cuadernos de comunicación e innovación, 65, 78-85, 2005
• Dans, E.; «IT does matter«, IE Business School Working Paper No. WP03-15, 2003, also published at European Business Forum (EBF), Issue 16, Winter 2003/4
• Dans, E.; Freire Botana, J.M.; «IT as agent of social change: Lonxanet and the case of the Galician artisanal fisheries«, 2002, Association for Information Systems
• Dans, E.; Allen, D.B.; «B2B e-marketplaces: percepción de la propuesta de valor en un mercado incipiente«, Economía industrial, 340, 101-108, 2001
• Dans, E.; «IT responsiveness in small and medium enterprises: it pays to be on top of IT«, Proceedings of the VIII European Conference of IT Evaluation (ECITE), Oxford, 17-18 de Septiembre de 2001
• Dans, E.; «El departamento de sistemas de información y su función corporativa: retos de futuro en investigación«, Revista de Empresa, 3, 2003
• Dans, E.; «El márketing, la web social y las formas de tirar el dinero«, Harvard Deusto Marketing y Ventas, 112, 54-61, 2012, Ediciones Deusto
• Dans, E.; Allen, D.B.; «B2B e-Marketplaces: What’s in it for me?«, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation 2002, 123, 2002, Academic Conferences Limited
• Dans, E.; Pauwels, K.; «Internet Marketing the News: Same players, different playground«, Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy Congress (EMAC), 2000
• Dans, E.; «Amistades peligrosas entre operadoras y usuarios«, Interactiva: Revista de la comunicación y el marketing digital, 1, 64-65, 2009
• Dans, E.; «Entre virus anda el juego«, Strategia, 26, 73, 2012
• Dans, E.; «De la paradoja de la productividad a la organización apalancada en tecnología«, Revista de Empresa, 9, 0, 2004
• Dans, E.; «¿Automatizar la fuerza de ventas?«, Harvard Deusto Marketing y Ventas», 63, 38-47, 2004
• Dans, E.; «Methodology and rigor: how ‘false prophets’ pushed firms to the dot.com cliff«, 2002, Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment
• Dans, E.; de Haro, G.; «Casa del Libro: From ‘DOT. COM’ to ‘DOT. COLD’”, Journal of Internet Commerce, 5, 2, 63-74, 2006, Taylor & Francis Group
• Dans, E.; «Aplanados«, Comunicaciones World, 198, 46, 2005
• Dans, E.; «Blogs y empresa», chapter in «La blogosfera hispana: pioneros de la cultura digital», coord. by J. M. Cerezo, edited by Fundación France Telecom (2006)
• García-Allut, A.; Freire, J.; Dans, E.; «Gestión de pesquerías, gestión de mercados:¿ Es el comercio electrónico una solución?«, 2001
• Dans, E.; «¿Un futuro en metaverso? Second Life muestra, en parte, cómo puede ser la interfaz futura de internet«, PC Actual, 199, 22-25, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Blogosfera: la jornada de un blogger«, PC Actual, 197, 28-29, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Tecnología y empresa: una cuestión de actitudes«, Capital Humano ,201, 66-73, 2006
• Dans, E.; «Nuevos perfiles de uso de las TIC: el cliente como protagonista«, Economistas, 27, 121, 134-138, 2009
• de la Torre Espejo, A.; Lara, T.; Dans, E.; Groom, J.; Lamb, B.; Piscitelli, A.G.; «Cultura digital y prácticas creativas en educación«, RUSC: Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento, 6, 1, 2009
• Dans, E.; «Vídeo en Internet. El imparable éxito del vídeo«, PC Actual, 195, 30-32, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Three essays on IT innovation and productivity«, 2000, University of California, Los Angeles
• Dans, E.; «La franquicia enredada«, Harvard-Deusto Marketing & Ventas, 50, 46-50, 2002
• Dans, E.; «Crowdsourcing: cuando ruge la marabunta«, PC Actual, Personal Computer, 189, 32-36, 2006
• Dans, E.; «The Long Tail. El valor de muchos poquitos«, PC Actual, Personal Computer, 196, 30-32, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Geoweb. La red sabe dónde estás«, PC Actual, Personal Computer, 203, 20-22, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Educación, trolls y netiquette«, PC Actual, Personal Computer, 193, 26-28, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Los elementos comunes de los negocios 2.0», PC Actual, Personal Computer, 201, 22-24, 2007
• Dans, E.; «Spam, conviviendo con la basura«, PC Actual, Personal Computer, 198, 24-27, 2007
• Peabody, B.; «Listo o afortunado: secretos para una vida emprendedora», preface by E. Dans, Ed. Hegemon, 2008
• Dans, E.; «La era de la globalización y de internet, la globalización en el siglo XXI: retos y dilemas»«La era de la globalización y de internet, la globalización en el siglo XXI: retos y dilemas», 255-266, 2008, Federación de Cajas de Ahorros Vasco-Navarras, 255-266, 2008, Federación de Cajas de Ahorros Vasco-Navarras
• Gillin, P., «Los nuevos influyentes», preface by E. Dans, Ed. LID (2009)
• Roca, J. M., «Revolución LinkedIn», prefce by E. Dans, Ed. Paidós (2009)
• Dans, E.; «Todo va a cambiar: Tecnología y evolución: adaptarse o desaparecer«, Ed. Deusto (2010)
• Dans, E.; «Todo va a cambiar: edición social«, social edition (supplemented with links, images, videos and comments) of the book «Todo va a cambiar» (2010)
• Somalo, I.; «Marketing online y comunicación digital», preface by E. Dans, Ed. Wolters Kluwer (2011)E. Fernández
• Curtichs, J., M. Fuentes, Y. García and A. Toca; «Sentido social», preface by E. Dans, Ed. Profit (2011)
• MacKinnon, R., «No sin nuestro consentimiento«, epilogue by E. Dans, Ed. Deusto (2012)
• Fernández, E. and A. Matud, «A contracorriente«, preface by E. Dans, Plataforma Editorial (2012)
• Assange, J., J. Appelbaum, A. Müller-Maguhn and J. Zimmermann; «Cypherpunks«, preface by E. Dans, Ed. Deusto (2013)
• Herreros, P.; «El poder es de las personas«, epilogue by E. Dans, Ed. Léeme (2013)
• Fernández, F. and J. J. Gómez de Diego (coord.); «#CardioTuit: aplicaciones profesionales de Twitter en Medicina», preface by E. Dans, edited by Sociedad Española de Cardiología (2014)
• Gallardo, J. and N. Vadillo (coord.), “Las nuevas tecnologías audiovisuales frente a los procesos tradicionales de comunicación”, special issue (n. 64) of Cuadernos Artesanos de Comunicación, preface by E. Dans
• Arsuaga, J. L., R. Bachiller, C. A. Cordente, E. Dans, J. Ordóñez and M. Toharia, «Con V de Velocidad», edited by Vodafone (2015)
• Fernández, F., J. J. Gómez de Diego and D. Marzal (coord.); «Aplicaciones profesionales de LinkedIn en Medicina», preface by E. Dans, edited by Sociedad Española de Cardiología (2015)
• Dans, E., «Netflix: un análisis preliminar de su entrada en el mercado español«, Burson Marsteller (2016)
• Dans, E. and G. Seisdedos, «Upgrading urban mobility: los retos de la movilidad urbana» (2016)
• García, S.; «El arte de dirigir personas hoy«, preface by E. Dans, Ed. Libros de Cabecera (2016)
• Dans, E., M. Eizaguirre, S. Martín, A. Palomar, A. Valenzuela and A. Vigil, «Noticias, las justas«, Ed. Wolters Kluwer (2016)
• Pedreira, J. and S. Lluna (coord.), «Los nativos digitales no existen«, preface by E. Dans, Ed. Deusto (2017)
• Tapscott, D. and A. Tapscott, «La revolución blockchain«, preface by E. Dans, Ed. Deusto (2017)
• Dans, E., «Jóvenes y redes sociales: más complejo de lo que parece«, Telos – Fundación Telefonica n. 107 (2017)
• Dans, E.; «AI: Myths and Realities», in «Human decisions: thoughts on AI», UNESCO Publishing, (2017)
• Dans, E.; «Educación y transformación digital», capítulo en «Ciberconvivencia y ciudadanía digital», ed. por Convives (2018)
• Dans, E.; «Futuro y tecnología», Anuario de Dircom (2018)
• Dans, E.; «Innovación, el futuro de la sociedad y las personas«, capítulo. Indra – Turner Books (2019)
• Dans, E.; «Innovation, the future of society and people«, chapter. Indra – Turner Books (2019)
• Dans, E.; «Education: from information to reputation», book chapter in «Human learning in the digital era», UNESCO Publishing, (2019)
• Bazarra, L. y O. Casanova; «Influencers educativos», prólogo de E. Dans, Editorial SM (2019)
• Dans, E.; «Viviendo en el futuro«, Ed. Deusto (2019). In English as «Living in the future» (Amazon)
• Dans, E.; «Educación, transformación digital y nueva normalidad», book chapter in «Covidnomics» (2021)
• Dans, E. ; «Teletrabajo: mirando más allá» (2021), Harvard Deusto Business Review
• Dans, E. and G. Seisdedos, «Micromovilidad y movilidad urbana sostenible» (2021) 
• Dans, E.; «Todo vuelve a cambiar«, Ed. Deusto (2023)