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V. Sambamurthy
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V. Sambamurthy (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989) is the Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise (www.bus.msu.edu/clode), a research center that is dedicated to issues associated with the convergence between information technologies and business strategy, business processes, innovation, and governance. He has previously taught at the business schools at The University of Maryland and The Florida State University. He has expertise in how firms successfully leverage information technologies in sustaining superior performance through their business strategies, products, services, and organizational processes. His current research includes the impacts of information technologies on strategic agility and the design of inter-organizational collaboration networks for product design and supply chain systems. His research has been published in top journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research, one of the top journals for research on information systems. In addition to academic publications, he has written executive-oriented articles in the CIO, Optimize, and CIO Insight magazines. Recently, he co-authored a book on information technology management, titled, Winning the 3-Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together [Prentice Hall, 2006]. Sambamurthy teaches courses related to the integration of information technology and corporate strategy. He has been actively involved in executive education on current topics such as facilitating business innovation through information technologies (IT), making sense of the business value of IT, strategic management of IT, and the organizing and sourcing of IT activities, assets, and services in contemporary firms. He has worked as a researcher or consultant with several Fortune 500 firms including 3M, General Dynamics, Owens Corning, Intel, Bell Atlantic, AstraZeneca, Freddie Mac, and BellSouth.
