Charles Kannair
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| E-mail: | kannair "AT" pitt.edu |
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| Office: | 2600 Posvar Hall |
| Phone: | (412) 383-7770
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Fall 2008 - Course Work
BMIS 2056 MIS Practicum
Assignment 1 Professional Background (Presentation)
Assignment 2 Professional Development Plan 2008 (Presentation) (Document)
Assignment 3 Industry & Firm Analysis Overview 2008 (Presentation) (Document)
Assignment 4 Technology Analysis 2008 (Presentation) (Document)
Assignment 5 Issue - Identification and Definition 2008 (Presentation) (Document)
Assignment 6 Issue - Current Knowledge and Research (Sources Cited) (Document)
Assignment 7 Issue - Position and Conclusions White Paper 2008 (Presentation) (Document)
BMIS 2034 Information Systems Planning
BMIS 2678 Electronic Commerce
BMIS 2588 Database Management
BIND 2400: INDIA TODAY: Innovation, Industry and Education (Joint Course with CMU/Pitt)
Instructors (these were the organizers responsible for grades and class organization):
-Indira Nair ( Mission/Intro) and Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University
-Bopaya Bidanda and Siddharth Chandra, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty/ presenters on the topics and themes:
Ashish Arora,Professor of Economics, Innovation and Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon
Patricia Beeson, Vice-Provost, Prof. of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
Jagdish Bhagwati,Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University
John Camillus, University of Pittsburgh
Rabikar Chatterjee, University of Pittsburgh
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Smita Srinivas, Columbia University
Sunil Wadhwani,Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of iGATE Corporation
Comment: Great Course/Intesive Weekend: interesting introduction to many of the challenges that the emergent and industrialized regions of India and China, and the various aspects that contribute challenges and strengths to the future development of one of the countries that will without exception play a major role in the global economy of the next century.
If your interested in the area the sponsors recommendations are:
(http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/radjou/) and
Also additional links were given as:
The Center for Advanced Study of India at Penn
http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/resources/data
The Stanford Center for International Development
http://scid.stanford.edu/
The Peterson Institute South Asia section
http://www.iie.com/research/researcharea.cfm?
ResearchTopicID=51&ParentTopicID=7#southasia
Center for Monotoring the Indian Economy
http://www.cmie.com/
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'Fall 2008 - Course Work'
BMIS 2051 Project Management
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Objectives
To develop the expertise of an strategic development consultant incorporating a multi-dimentional perspective specifically in the field of business modeling and infrastructure process engineering, and entrepreneurial activities.
[edit] Bio
I am currently is working full time at the University of Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Lab as the Research Systems Engineer and the Operations Manager.
I am also pursuing a fulltime MBA/MS-MIS curriculum at the Joeseph M. Katz Graduate School of Management (University of Pittsburgh) concentrating on Strategy and Operations Research.
I have a background that spans both industrial operations as a Naval Nuclear Reactor Operator in the Navy in the early part of my career, as a computer technology company owner while in college working on projects with various corporations to solve business process problems using any available technology at the time, to working in the academic environment principally assisting the development and use of any technology available to implement and create research agenda and projects in the field of Experimental Economics.
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Interests and Experiences include:
- technology systems and software architecture from enterprise systems to component level applications
- business analysis and corporate planning
- logistics and activity based cost accounting model creation for strategic planning
- consultancy work involving general management development and information technology integration (especially in the domain of enterprise business integration with technology to maintain competitve advantage).
- Business process design using SOA, SAAS, etc. and other ERP integrated applicaiton frameworks
- Business analyitics – functional specification design, metric creation, application architecture, feasibility study, cost-benefit analysis and project management.
- Entrepreneurial style innovation in the field of multi-parameter analyitics,
- Methods and implications of processes on firms competitive agility and the change management and implementation strategies used by companies
- Research using artificial intelligent agents, and the implications and possible role of A.I.decision constructs for use in computational models to provide optimal business process modeling.
- Financial services, logistics, investment banking and resource planning industries
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Charles Kannair
Pittsburgh, PA
Work (412) 383-7770
Email: kannair AT Pitt EDU
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