Cokky Hilhorst is professor of Business & IT. Her research is at the interface of business and technology and concentrates on decision-making, risk and IT investments. Her work combines insights from different academic fields, such as management, economics, information systems, and computer science. Cokky combines knowledge of digitalization of organizations with in-depth knowledge and understanding of software systems and its applications. She is used to tackle complex digital business challenges. She teaches on topics such as IT investments, data analytics and digital transformation.
Cokky worked for years at PwC as Director Consulting Technology in the public, healthcare and financial sectors. More recently, she successfully set up and led the authoritative Bureau ICT-toetsing to fulfill the political mandate of the Dutch parliament to get a grip on government IT investments. She also works as an independent advisor.
Cokky studied Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University and specialized in theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. She holds an MSc in Information Management from TIAS Business School and a PhD in Economics and Management from Tilburg University. She defended her dissertation entitled Responding to IT risks with real options: the valuation of management flexibility in IT projects. Her PhD was awarded the Prof. dr. Aart Bosman Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in Information Systems 2009/2010 in the Benelux. She attended the PhD consortium of the European Conference on Information Systems in 2006. She serves as an associate editor for various international IS conferences. Her work has been published in Decision Support Systems and the European Journal on Information Systems.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Grant Thornton Netherlands, member of the Enterprise IT Advisory Board at VolkerWessels and member of the Advisory Board at RightBrains.
Cokky was a research student at the Mathematics department at the University of Cambridge and a visiting researcher at the Institut d'Administration d'Entreprises, Graduate School of Management, Paul Cézanne University - Aix-Marseille III.
