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There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring - Impatience and Laziness
Franz Kafka
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Hamlet, Act II, 2
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Kierkegaard
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
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Dr. Pratim Datta is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Farris Family Research Innovation Fellow in the Department of Management and Information Systems at Kent State University. He also serves as a co-advisor to the MIS Association and as the co-chair of the Computer Information Systems Marketing Committee at Kent State University. Dr. Datta holds a Ph.D., M.S. in Information Systems and Decision Sciences and an M.B.A. in Information Systems.
Dr. Datta has over 50 publications in journals and conferences. His research looks at global technology and supply chain management in areas of user experience, design, security, and deployment.
Before joining academia, Pratim Datta served in several industry positions in India, Australia, and the United States. Dr. Datta has worked in areas of information retrieval and liaising, inventory modeling, control, and shopfloor operations, served as a technology consultant with firms such as IBM Global Services, SAP, Ann Taylor, Gritman Medical Center, and Comdoc, Inc. He has also been involved in the design and deployment of IT solutions in projects associated with Louisiana State agencies.
Dr. Datta researches a variety of topics associated with IS deployment and performance. His research includes the adoption and deployment of telemedicine infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, the reengineering of knowledge and software or business-technology fit, the redesign of service-driven information architectures, emergent issues in information systems security, and information economics in E-Commerce. Professor Datta has over nineteen peer-reviewed journal publications and more than seventeen respected conference proceedings to his credit. His work has been published in prestigious journals and conferences such as the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, European Journal on Information Systems, Communications of the AIS and the ACM, IEEE Transactions, the International Conference on Information Systems, and the European Conference on Information Systems, among many others. He currently teaches graduate courses on Management Information Systems and Information Systems Security. Dr. Datta has received a Best Paper Award from the European Conference in Information Systems and the Distinguished Paper Award from the Decision Sciences Institute Conference.
In an official complilation of productive IS researchers in premier journals in Information Systems, Dr. Pratim Datta is ranked 32nd in the world based on publications in premier IS journals.
Dr. Datta is the Farris Family Research Innovation Fellow and a proud recipient of the Merit Award and voted Outstanding MBA Professor in 2008-2009.Dr. Pratim Datta has 4 patent applications in the areas of biometrics authentication, electronic voting, and green solutions. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Datta held consulting and project management positions for 8 years in multinational companies including IBM Global Solutions and SAP Consulting. Dr. Datta teaches MBA, EMBA, and PhD courses. He has been nominated for the University Teaching Award and was honored as the Outstanding MBA Professor in 2009. He is currently authoring two books: (i) In Defense of Hamlet: Decisional Dilemmas (ii) A Managerial Guide to Global Supply Chains. He enjoys reading, travelling, watching movies, and photography.
Apart from his serving as a faculty and a researcher, Dr. Pratim Datta is passionate about travel, art collection, creative design, and photography. Dr. Datta has designed bookmarks and posters for the department. His photography has been exhibited in New York and Baltimore and was recently published in The Smithsonian. He lives in Hudson, Ohio.
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