Deborah Soule


Deborah Soule, Research Consultant, Soule Solutions/Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

Deborah Soule is an experienced digital transformation researcher, instructor, and consultant, with interdisciplinary expertise and international, industrial and academic experience. She studies how organizations apply and adapt to ever-improving digital technologies and pervasive connected data. She is also passionate about translating research and knowledge about the emerging digital economy into meaningful insights, especially for youth so that they can discover their potential for success and satisfaction in a digital economy. She co-authored Corporate Information Strategy and Management (8th Ed), and has written extensively for management practitioners on organizational learning, innovation, and collaboration themes. Soule started her career in Information Systems in the chemical and plastics industry, gaining experience in multidisciplinary and multilingual settings. She has worked in Europe, Africa and North America. Prior to returning to academia, she consulted on information systems and operations projects. Soule earned her Doctorate at Harvard Business School, MBA from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science from Rhodes University in South Africa.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) builds unique solutions that connect content and rights in contextually relevant ways through software and professional services. CCC helps people navigate vast amounts of data to discover actionable insights, enabling them to innovate and make informed decisions. CCC, with its subsidiaries RightsDirect and Ixxus, collaborates with customers to advance how data and information is integrated, accessed, and shared while setting the standard for effective copyright solutions that accelerate knowledge and power innovation. CCC is headquartered in Danvers, Mass. and has offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

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