Nanyang Business School is the only Singapore business school and third in Asia to be accredited by both the EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). These are the most widely-recognised European and American quality assurance standards for accounting and business education. They assure our graduates that their degrees will be both recognised and valued around the world.

Nanyang Business School is the only Singapore business school and third in Asia to be accredited by both the EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). These are the most widely-recognised European and American quality assurance standards for accounting and business education. They assure our graduates that their degrees will be both recognised and valued around the world.



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Information Technology and Operations Management

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ITOM Research Report 2008

The Division of Information Technology and Operations Management comprises faculty with expertise in two key business disciplines: Information Technology (IT) and Operations Management (OM).

Research

The research issues addressed by the faculty members in the IT area include IT Policy, Value of IT, Implementation of IT and packaged software, Outsourcing of technology services, Talent management of high technology professionals, Electronic Marketplaces & Virtual communities, Pricing of information goods, Knowledge management, and Database management. These research issues are addressed using theories, frameworks and methodologies from Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Organisational Behaviour, and Operations Research.

The research issues addressed by faculty members in the OM area include Inventory management, Logistics management, Supply chain coordination, Forecasting, Reverse logistics, Manufacturing systems, Quality control, Service operations management, and Revenue management. The OM faculty use theories and methodologies from Optimisation, Stochastic processes, Inventory theory, Game theory, Queuing Theory and Simulation to solve the research problems.

Research by the ITOM faculty have been published in top journals in the respective disciplines such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, and Operations Research and other high quality journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, Journal of the OR Society, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, CACM, Information and Management, IEEE Transactions, and Decision Support Systems. Click here for faculty publications and research accomplishments in 2008.

Faculty members from the division have served or are serving on the Editorial Boards of top journals such as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Production & Operations Management and IEEE Transactions.

The faculty members in the IT area are actively involved in the Information Management Research Centre (IMARC) that is affiliated to the division. IMARC serves as a conduit for networking with CIOs and senior IT professionals from the industry as well with senior academics from around the world.

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Academic Programs

The faculty members in the division are actively involved teaching courses in the Undergraduate, MBA, EMBA and PhD programs. At the undergraduate level, the division is actively involved in the Business (IT) specialization, the Double Degree in Business and Computing. In the MBA program, the Division is actively involved in the MBA (Technology) and the NTU-Waseda Double MBA in Management of Technology. At the PhD level, the division is involved in the PhD in Operations Management and the PhD in Information Systems.

Senior faculty members in the division are actively involved in teaching in the Nanyang Executive Programs – in the degree programs such as EMBA, open executive programs as well as customised in-company programs. As the faculty members interact deeply with business organisations in the research projects, consulting and executive teaching engagements, they are able to bring a balance of rigour and relevance and both theoretical frameworks and current practice into the classroom.

The Division provides strong support for the professional development of our IT students by sponsoring the only business school student chapter of the Singapore Computer Society.  The NBS-SCS Student Chapter draws on the strength of faculty expertise and their networks to organize activities that add to the IT competencies of our IT majors and to socialize IT majors into the IT profession.

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Contact Us

TENG Huay Chiun Julia (Ms)
Secretary, Division of Information Technology & Operations Management
Office: S3-01A-17, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University,
Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798
Email: ahcteng@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 67905699
Fax: (65) 67922313 

VISWANATHAN, S (Professor)
Head, Division of Information Technology & Operations Management
Office: S3-01A-17, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University,
Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798
Email: H-DITOM@ntu.edu.sg

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