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Ranganathan
(Ranga) is an Associate Professor and Director of MIS Doctoral Program
at UIC. He teaches graduate and under-graduate courses on information
systems strategies, outsourcing and offshoring and information
systems projects. He also teaches at the professional development and
executive programs at UIC. He has consistently obtained excellent
teaching evaluations in the courses he has taught. His research
interests include IT-enabled organizational
transformation, information systems sourcing, e-business and
information systems strategies and organizational impacts of
information technology. He closely works with the industry in his
research as well as teaching activities.
Ranga
has authored over two dozen articles and his publications
have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Communications
of the ACM, Decision Sciences Journal, European Journal of Information
Systems, IEEE Transctions on Engineering Management, Information
Systems Management, Information Systems Research, Information
& Management, Internalional Journal of E-Commerce, Journal of
Computer Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, MIS Quarterly Executive, and proceedings of conferences such as International
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on
Information Systems (AMCIS), Academy of Management (AoM), Decision
Sciences Institute (DSI) and Hawaii International Conference on Systems
Sciences (HICSS). He has authored
many case studies on different information technology issues.
He is also a regular, invited columnist to some practitioner
IT magazines.
Ranga's
paper on e-Business transformation won the first
prize at the SIM International
paper contest in 2001. His paper examining
the growth of a B2B e-commerce firm won the
third prize at SIM
International paper contest
in 2002. His doctoral dissertation on strategic IT decisions
won the Best
Doctoral Dissertation Award at the International
Conference on Information Systems in 1998. His dissertation
proposal won the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award, and a
$25,000 research grant in 1996. He stood first in his Masters
program at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS),
India. His research has been funded by Center
for Research in Information Management (UIC), Pontikes
Center for Management of Information (SIU), and Center for
e-Business and Center for Management of Technology at National
University of Singapore.
Prior
to joining UIC, Ranga was an Assistant Professor of MIS
at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Earlier,
Ranga worked as a management consultant at Exeter Group,
Cambridge (MA) where he was engaged in technical and management
consulting projects. He has held research positions at National
University of Singapore, and has been an adjunct faculty
at a number of business schools in India and Singapore.
Ranga has also consulted for several firms apart from working
as a programmer in a software firm.
Ranga
holds a doctorate in management (MIS) from Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad (1998), and a Masters in Science,
from BITS, Pilani, India. He is also a Microsoft Certified
Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Professional.
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