Ramesh Sharda

editor of Decision Support for Global Enterprises & co-author of Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach

November 4, 2015

Ramesh Sharda is Conoco/DuPont Professor of Management of Technology and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration at Oklahoma State University. He spent the last academic year on sabbatical leave at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S. in engineering from the University of Udaipur, M.S. from Ohio State University, and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

One of his major activities in the last few years was to start the M.S. in telecommunications management program at OSU. He has served as the founding editor of Interactive Transactions of OR/MS, an INFORMS electronic journal. He is also the computer science editor of OR/MS Today, and an associate editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Ramesh has co-edited several books and is the editor for a Kluwer book series in Computer Science/Operations Research Interfaces, which has currently published 17 volumes. His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Computers and Operations Research and many others.

His research interests are in optimization applications on desktop computers, information systems support for new product development, neural networks, business uses of the Internet and knowledge networks. His research has been sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency, NSF, Marketing Science Institute, and several other organizations. He and his colleagues are working on using information technology to facilitate electronic commerce between the United States government and small businesses. This work, sponsored by the CATT program, has resulted in development of SCORE, a tutorial for small businesses, hands-on Internet training materials, and development of a web site, as well as the development of the Defense Supplier Catalog. Ramesh is also a cofounder of a company that produces virtual trade fairs, iTradeFair.com.

Increasingly India, with its expertise in communication technology, is becoming the "global back office" to international supply chains. Many international companies (and examples are legion, but a few examples are IBM, Sony, Exxon/Mobil, etc.) have employed Indian resources to help them with their data, their computerized decision support and their knowledge management. With large corporations opening the path to India, it has allowed a substantial communications and decision-support infrastructure to develop in a number of Indian cities. Therefore, opportunities have emerged for both large and small enterprises in the global market place to utilize these developing Indian resources. Decision Support for Global Enterprises is a volume of a mixture of peer-reviewed and invited papers. The volume will have two primary goals: (1) Stimulate creative and thoughtful discussion between academic research leaders and the practitioner information systems community that will improve both the research and practice in the area. (2) Increase the awareness of the problems and challenges faced by global enterprises that can be met with innovative computerized decision support systems. In addition to the positive aspects, the limitations of these systems and technologies are also explored. Emphasized in the book will be research on the following topics: (1) the emerging enterprise decision making processes and technologies; (2) decision making in uncertain, rapidly changing conditions; (3) the changing infrastructure in organizations and society; (4) the expanding role of web technologies; and (5) emerging theories and practices for managing knowledge and in making decisions.

As Business Intelligence (BI) evolves from an executive support tool to the primary system implemented in almost all medium and large companies, this is the only book that gives students the BI foundation needed to excel as a manager and decision maker in today's new world.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/ramesh-sharda

Last Updated: 14 January 2022