Omar El Sawy
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| Omar A. El Sawy is Professor of Information Systems in the Information and Operations Management Department at the Marshall School of Business, and Director of Research at the Center for Telecom Management (CTM). He also teaches managing global e-business in the IBEAR MBA Program. His interests include redesigning electronic value chains, collaborative integration and business process redesign in e-business, and knowledge management and vigilance in fast-response environments. Before assuming his position at CTM in 2001, his research projects have been sponsored by the RosettaNet Consortium and by Carnegie-Mellon University. As Director of Research at CTM, he oversees and leads an industry-sponsored research program that focuses on critical infrastructure management, e-business collaborative integration, and wireless mobility.
El Sawy holds a Ph.D. from Stanford Business School, an MBA from the American University in Cairo, and a BSEE in Telecommunications from Cairo University. Prior to joining USC in 1983, he worked as an engineer and manager for twelve years, first at NCR Corporation, and then as a manager of computer services at Stanford University. He has lectured, consulted, and carried out research in four continents, has been an information systems advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Egypt, and a Fulbright scholar in Finland. El Sawy is the author of over 70 papers and his writings have appeared in both information systems and management journals. He is the author of the book Redesigning Enterprise Processes for e-Business, 2001. He serves on six journal editorial boards, and is a five-time winner of SIM’s Paper Awards Competition most recently in 2003 for the topic of designing of real-time vigilant information systems. Recent Publications: "Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains," (with S. Gosain and A. Malhotra), Journal of Management Information Systems, 2004, "Critical Issues in Research on Real-Time Knowledge Management in Enterprises, (with A. Majchrzak), Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 8 No. 4, 2004, Vigilant Information Systems for Managing Enterprises in Dynamic Supply Chains: Real-Time Dashboards at Western Digital," (with B. Houghton, P. Gray, C. Donegan, and A. Joshi). Second Prize, 2003 Society for Information Management’s Paper Competition. MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2004, "The 3 Faces of IS Identity: Connection, Immersion, and Infusion," Communications of the AIS, Volume 12, November 2003, "The Impact of Common e-Business Interfaces," (with S. Gosain, A. Malhotra, and F. Chehade), Communications of the ACM, December 2003, "The four Tigers of Global e-Business Infrastructure: Strategies and Implications for Emerging Economies," (with M. Sarkar), Communications of the AIS, Volume 12, June 2003, Resigning Enterprise Processes for e-Business, McGraw-Hill (2001) Specialties: Redesigning Electronic Value Chains and Collaborative Integration in e-business Phone: (213) 740-4837 |