Vallabh Sambamurthy

V. Sambamurthy (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989) is the Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology and the Executive Director of the Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has previously served on the faculties of the business schools at The University of Maryland and The Florida State University. He has expertise in how firms leverage information technologies in their business strategies, products, services, and organizational processes. His work has been funded by the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Advanced Practices Council (APC), and the National Science Foundation. His work has been published in journals such as the MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Management Science, Organization Science, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He is the editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, one of the top journals for scholarly research on information systems.

Sambamurthy teaches courses related to the alignment of information technology and corporate strategy. He has been actively involved in executive education on current topics such as the shaping of digital business transformations, strategic alignment of IT, and the management of IT innovation in firms. He has worked as a researcher or a consultant with several Fortune 500 firms including AstraZenneca, 3M, General Dynamics, Owens Corning, Intel, Bell Atlantic, Freddie Mac, and BellSouth. Currently, he is the Co-Director of the Academic Council at the Business Technology Management Institute, a new organization aiming to enhance executive understanding about strategic alignment of information technology, business strategies, and business processes. His recently co-authored book, titled, Winning the Three Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together, advocates the necessity for firms to integrate their business and information technology management processes.

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Detmar Straub

The J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, Detmar has conducted research in the areas of Net-enhanced organizations (e-Commerce), information security, technological innovation, IS methodological issues, and international IT studies. He holds a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in MIS from Indiana and a PhD in English from Penn State. He has published 140 papers in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, OMEGA, Academy of Management Executive , and Sloan Management Review.

Detmar is the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly, with a term started in January of 2008. Previously he has served as Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, Journal of the AIS (JAIS) and DATA BASE. He was also Co-Editor of DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Previously, he was Associate Editor for Management Science as well as an editorial board member on a host of other journals. His consultancies with industry have been in the areas of information security, e-Commerce, and technological innovation.

He teaches masters level courses at Georgia State University in: eCommerce Strategy, IT Strategies for Management, Systems Integration and IT Outsourcing, International IT Policies and Issues, and Computer Security Management, and doctoral seminars in Quantitative Methods in IS Research, & Experimental Design.

He serves as Director of Research and Doctoral Programs in the Robinson College of Business. He is former VP of Publications for the Association for Information Systems. He was appointed AIS Fellow in 2005.

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Yingluo Wang

He was born in Jingxian County, Anhui Province on May, 1930. He got his bachelor's degree from Jiaotong University in 1952 and engaged in his graduate study at Harbin Institute of Technology from 1953 to 1955. He is currently member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor in management science and engineering and Ph.D. advisor of Xi'an Jiaotong university, the honorary dean of the School of Management, and the vice Dean of Shaanxi Provincial MBA College. He also holds many academic titles such as invited member of the Decision Consulting Commission of Shaanxi Province, international editorial member of Journal of Computer and IE based in US, standing board member of the International IE Society, chief of the editorial committee of Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, chief of editorial committee of Journal of Industrial Engineering.

He had been appointed as the first dean of the School of Management of Xi'an Jiaotong, a facilitator of Management Science and Engineering Division of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, head of the application appraisal group of the Management Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, editorial member of Journal of China Engineering Science, adviser of the China National MBA Academic Degrees Guidance Committee, member of the China National Soft Science Guidance Committee, vice chairman of the System Engineering Society of China, standing board member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and chairman of Industrial Engineering Division, chief scientist of the System Management and Integration Research Laboratory of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Center of former Ministry of Machine Industry, expert of the Major Technology Research Expert Panel of the Three Gorges Project. In 2003, he was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

He is a national famous expert and a pioneer in the field of management science and engineering. Because of his persistent pursuit of the study and education of management discipline for half a century, he keeps staying in the frontier of this field. He undertook many systemic and innovative works and made lot of contributions to the development and discipline interlinks of management engineering, system engineering and industrial engineering. He synthesized and applied relevant theories and techniques to engineering management and social economic problems and achieved a great success. More than a dozen national innovative research projects were directed by him. Due to his academic achievements, he was awarded with many national and provincial awards such as the National University Scientist co-issued by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology, the third-class award of the National Scientific Research Advances, the first and second-class award of Provincial Scientific Research Advances for eight times and the Teaching Awards for three times at the national and provincial level.

He had been responsible for over ten national key research projects and established a brand-new methodology and model system. He is one of the pioneers who integrated the theories and techniques of system engineering and modern management with the application of social and economic problems. He participated in the projects of Development Strategy of Energy, Heavy and Chemical Industry Base of Shanxi Province and China in the New Millennium, completed the project of Integrated Economic Evaluation and Decision Support System of Three Gorges, established the planning model of national education and participated in the establishment of national talent plan, which was recognized as the significant achievements of the application of system engineering in the 80s in China.

In 1995, he put forward strategic decision-making methods and support instruments based on computer intelligent system and completed the project of Computer Intelligent Decision Support System of Power Supply Distribution Design and Management in the City Zone of Yichang Region and Intelligent Decision Support System and Information Processing. In 1997 and 1998, he achieved the first and second class awards of National Scientific Research Advances by the Ministry of Education. From 1998 to 1999, he was responsible for the project of Dispersed Network Manufacturing and Management Research which is a ninth five year plan key project and brought forward the theory and method of Agile Network Manufacturing Pattern and its implementation approach, by which he won the second class award of Scientific Research Advances by the State Bureau of Machine Building Industry in 1999 and the Science and Technology Achievement Award by the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society in 2001.

He has published more than 200 papers in national and international academic journals and proceedings. He is the author of 22 textbooks and monographs on strategic decision-making, system engineering, industrial engineering, etc., among which Introduction to System Engineering, System Engineering, System Engineering Theory: Method and It's Application are widely used by many colleges and universities across China. He is the first who advocated educating management talents from engineers, actively pushed double degree programs and and MBA programs among senior management talents in China. As the first Ph.D. advisor in the field of management engineering in China, Xi'an Jiaotong was the earliest university which opened postdoctoral stations in this field. He is the Ph.D. advisor with 53 students got their degrees and 9 postdoctoral researchers. Due to his outstanding contribution for economic development, he was granted "Bole Award" by Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2002.

He has been paying much attention to discipline development. With his efforts, the Department of Management was founded in 1978 in Xi'an Jiaotong, and the School of Management was established among the earliest in China in 1984, which was authorized to offer Ph. D. degrees of Management Engineering, and was the earliest Ph.D. Program in China. The subject of Management Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong was nominated as the only national key subject in 1990. The subject was again evaluated as one of the national key subjects, which ranks at the top in discipline evaluation in 2002 by the Ministry of Education.

He has organized and involved in many international academic activities and enjoys high reputation among academic communities at home and abroad.

His current research interests include 1) strategic management, especially flexible strategy, strategic decision-making and planning; and 2) engineering management, especially feasibility study of huge engineering projects, management of AMT patterns & productivity engineering.

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or http://www.xjtu.edu.cn/szdw/professor/458.html (Chinese).

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