Programme

Programme

Friday, December 19, 2008
9.00am - 9.15am	Welcome remarks by Dean M R Rao
9.15am - 10.30am	Keynote by Kris Gopalkrishnan, CEO and MD, Infosys
10.30am - 10.45am	Tea Break
10.45am - 12.15pm	Panel Discussion 1 Captive v III Parties: Defining the Value-Efficiency Frontier Panel Members: Pari Natranjan, Zinnov Nina Nagpal, Morgan Stanley Advantage Services Amresh Ramaswamy, Microsoft, India (R&D) Kashyap Kompella, TPI India Moderator: Professor Rajiv Banker
12.15pm - 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm - 2.45pm	Panel Discussion 2 The Indian Mobile Industry: Local Impact and Global Scope Panel Members: Surojit Chaterjee, Google Stuti Shukla, Microsoft Moderator: Professor Gireesh Shrimali
2.45pm - 3.00pm	Tea Break
3.00pm - 4.30pm	Panel Discussion 3 Transformational IT Management: New Trends in IT Consumption for Business Value Panel Members: Bipin Paracha, Wipro Mani Mulki, Godrej Prashun Datta, Reliance Energy Moderator: Professor V Sambamurthy
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Tea Break
4.45pm - 6.00pm	Panel Discussion 4 Human Capital Development in the Indian IT/ITeS Sector Panel Members: Prithvi Sher Gill, Accenture Manish Sabharwal, Teamlease Tan Moorthy, Infosys Moderator: Professor Ravi Bapna
7.30pm onwards	Gala Dinner at Chowmahalla Palace
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Outsourcing Governance 9.00am - 10.15am	Task Complementarity, Modular Architecture and Incentives in Contracting for "Software as a Service" Anitesh Barua, University of Texas at Austin Andrew B Whinston, University of Texas at Austin Anjana Susarla, University of Washington Outsourcing Coordination Requirements and the Contracting Paradox Deepa Mani, Indian School of Business Anitesh Barua, University of Texas at Austin Rational Contracts in IT Outsourcings Debabrata Dey, University of Washington Anjana Susarla, University of Washington Ming Fan, University of Washington
10.15am -10.30am	Tea Break
Outsourcing Risk Mangement 10.30am -12.40pm	Attrition of IT workers in the context of Offshore Outsourcing: The Economic Impact of Training Agreements Ravi Bapna, University of Minnesota Alok Gupta, University of Minnesota Amit Mehra, Indian School of Business V Sambhamurthy, Michigan State University Process Structure and complexity Arbitrage in offshore Outsourcing Praveen Pathak, University of Florida Ravi Aron, University of Southern California Siddhant Jayanty, University of Pennsylvania Ying Liu, University of Hawaii Mitigation of Behavioral Risks in Offshore Software Development Saji K Mathew, T A Pai Management Institute Anandi Bhardwaj, Ernory University Risk Mitigation in Remote Infrastructure Management Engagements: Role of Service Level Agreements Madhusudan Das, T A Pai Management Institute Saji K Mathew, T A Pai Management Institute
12.40pm - 1.45pm	Lunch
Business Value of IT and Software Engineering 1.45pm - 3.00pm	Globally Distributed IT Application Portfolio Analysis (X) DayaSindhu N, Infosys Technologies Ltd Testing the Business Value of IT- a Meta Analysis Serkan Ada, State University of New York Raj Sharman, State University of New York Prasad Balkundi, State University of New York Extended Abstract- Suitability of RV Management Approaches Rahul Thakurta, MIS-Doctoral student
3.00pm - 3.15pm	Tea Break
IT Organisation 3.15pm - 5.00pm	Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Programme Rajesh Radhakrishnan, IBM Global Services Interdependence between Employee Education and R&D Investment in Impacting IT Firm Performance Sunil Wattal, Temple University Rajiv Banker, Temple University Fang Chun Liu Chin-Shyh Ou Do Formal Sanctions Ensure Compliance with Organisational Internet Use Policy Rathinder Sarathy, Oklama State University Han Li, Virginia State University
7.30pm onwards	Dinner
Sunday, December 21, 2008
IT Products and Services 9.00am - 10.15am	Switching Costs, Satisfaction, Loyalty and willingness to pay for Office Productivity Software Raghu Santanam, Arizonia State University Mark Keith R Sinha Impact of Rank-by-Bid and Rank-by-Revenue Mechanisms on the quality score and revenue in keyword auctions Srinivas Raghunathan, University of Texas at Dallas Jing Hao, University of Texas at Dallas Syam Menon, University of Texas at Dallas Sumit Sarkar, University of Texas at Dallas Organic and Paid Search Advertising: Complements, Substitutes or neither Anindya Ghose, New York University Sha Yang, New York University
10.15am - 10.30am	Tea Break
IT Products and Services 10.30am - 11.45am	Tariff structures for pricing grid computing resources Hemant K Bhargava, University of California Recommender Systems & Market Diversity Kartik Hosanagar, University of Pennsylvania Daniel Fleder, University of Pennsylvania Categorising User Interests in Recommender Systems (IT/EM) Paul Mireault, HEC Montreal Sanjog Ray, IIM Calcutta Ambuj Mahanti, IIM Calcutta
Emerging Markets 11.45am - 12.30pm	Determinants of adoption of mobile Customer Relationship Management in India-An Empirical Study from User's perspective Preety Awathi, National Institute of Industrial Engineering Purnima Sangle, National Institute of Industrial Engineering Need Based Economy for Sustainable Technological Growth Ashutosh Kasera, Rai Business School Piyush Ranjan, Rai Business School
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch
Innovative Applications 1.30pm - 3.30pm	An Exploratory Study on the influence of web services and SOA on business process agility Ravi Seetham Raju, University of Sydney Interactive vs Independent Alignment: IT Impact on Response Capabilities in Manufacturing Firms Pankaj Setia, University of Arkansas Shawnee K Vickery, Michigan State University Cornelia Droge, Michigan State University V Sambamurthy, Michigan State University Strategies to Improve Information Systems Service Quality and User Satisfaction: The role of Zone of Tolerance Narasimhaiah Gorla, American University of Sharjah Grid Technology for data intensive risk analysis of drought prone area Harshalata Petkar, Dr Babasaheb Nandurkar College of Physical Education