John Hamilton

Chair Professor John R. Hamilton (PhD) is currently attached to the Cairns Institute as Adjunct Chair Professor and futures researcher, and to the College of Business, Law and Governance as Primary and PhD Mentor-Supervisor and as lead researcher and statistician.

Main Personal Research Domains: Generative artificial intelligences, competitiveness, sustainability, digital innovation& strategic business futures.

Ongoing Research: Personal Higher Doctorate ‘Grand Theory of Competitiveness.’ Business consulting into India and Pakistan. PNG education system assessment. Generative AI. Qld. Body Corporates. CEO BlueSky Online Journals, International Presentations: Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, (Indonesia), Uni Canterbury (NZ), Zayed University, Dubai (UAE), University of Karachi (Pakistan). Conferences: ICEB2022 (Thailand & HK), ICEB2023 (Chaiyi Taiwan)..

Background: (1) Business: Corporate & glocal leadership, innovative strategic corporate & digital management experience, (2) Tertiary Academic: Tomorrow's business model solutions, strategic AI technopreneurship applications, and research team leadership. (3) IT/IS: software development.

Consult: Across online/offline engaging interactive environments pursuing leading-edge strategic corporate competitiveness solutions.

Develop: Innovative real-time capabilities for business-consumer 'instant' connectivities.

Current Research: Service Value Networks Generative AI solutions, software developer firm sustainable performance, creative technologies, innovation, digital IP leadership, real-time value-deliverance, risks mitigation, consumer marketplace serving , coalescing competitive 3D/digital/physical network integrations, efficient cloud AI business scenarios, major-events management, tracking, interactive learning & statistics.

Current Doctoral Supervisions: (1) Business: (1) Corporate competitiveness, (2) strategic management consulting, (3) overcoming HRM behavioural stressors, (4) trending and resolving tertiary institution education systems, (5) delivering corporate requisite organization. (2) Law: (6) Fairness for military veterans, (7) body corporate management risks (3) IT/IS: (8) sustainability of global software developer firms, I(9) lslamic FinTech compliance, (10) smart dynamic warehousing.

Past Research Areas: Digital innovation, creative technologies deployment, competitive strategies, big data, digital AI leadership, values-deliverance, virtual connectivities networks, corporate and virtual intelligences, cloud AI scenarios, major-events management, tracking, and interactive learning.

Past Corporate Capabilities: Extensive corporate national (and international) ownership, leadership and management experience across digital/physical engaging interactive environments.

2016-2022: John teamed to build innovative start-ups and innovative networks for North Queensland. Further researched digital/flexible higher education systems. Researched with Cairns Institute, TheSPACE and PNG. Tested solutions delivering direct transactional traffic between social networks and physical businesses (Studio Matrix). Consulting research delivered technopreneurial, innovative and entrepreneurial corporate competitiveness solution. Undertook agility research engaging speedy OSSD big data development.

2022-2025: John continues to mentor supervise seven PhDs. His ongoing personal research includes: (1) CB-SEM statistical appropriateness of path partial, optimal and full model approaches, (2) Generative AI, (3) AI and health, (4) Software engineering and AI, (5) Smart digital warehousing, (6) International banking models including iFintech, block chain and global banking models, (7) Grand theory of competitiveness and data support, and (8) Competitive drivers of Melanesian tertiary learning.

2023: Highly Commended Advisor Mentor and Head of Supervisory Team of the Year at JCU - showing outstanding commitment to excellence in research education through the exceptional quality of HDR supervisory practices.

2025 Professional Roles: (1) Member Australian Institute of Company Directors, (2) Think-tank Research-Fellow of Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Economic Research Institute (BNUZ) (2020-2017), (3) Australasian VP of ICEB (2019-2012), (4) Australasian APBest Academy Chair of Asia Pacific Business Excellence Standard Academy (ongoing-2015), (5) Research Fellow of the Cairns Institute (ongoing-2010), (6) Member Decision Sciences Institute, (7) Member Academy of Management, (8) Member Academy of International Business, (9) Member Association for Information Systems, (10) Member Association for Operations Management, (11) Member & Australiasian Exec Member International Consortium for Electronic Business, (12) Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Association for Information Systems, (13) Competitiveness Advisor Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia.

2025 Editorial Roles: (1) Editorial Board Member of ERA, & ABDC (B-rated) Emerald listed 'Total Quality Management Journal (The TQMJ).'  (2) Associate Editor of ERA, & ABDC (C-rated) InderScience listed ‘Journal of Business and Management.’ (3) Editorial Board Member of the ‘Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation.’ (4) Editorial Board Member of ‘Sustainability.’ (5) Editorial Board Member of ICEB publications.