Liaquat Hossain is an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at
Syracuse University. His background is in Bachelor of business administration,
1993 and M.Sc. in Computer and Engineering Management, 1995 from the
Assumption University of Thailand. Mr. Hossain completed his Ph.D. in Information
Technology and Computer Science, specializing in Telecommunications Management
from the University of Wollongong, NSW Australia in 1997. He was invited to
conduct postdoctoral research at the Internet Telephony Interoperability Consortium
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. The exposure to a multidisciplinary
education and interdisciplinary research background has helped him in designing IS/
IT courses as well as in the pursuance of both applied and theoretical research in
areas like telecommunications management, electronic commerce, information
economics, health informatics, and strategic information management. His current
research is on the following areas: understanding technological learning capability
of small and medium sized SW development companies in Australia and the US,
understanding the relationship between IT investment and organizational productivity
and understanding tacit knowledge sharing systems in organization.
Jon David Patrick holds the inaugural Sybase Chair of information systems in the
School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, and previously
held the inaugural Chair of Information Systems at Massey University, New
Zealand. He has been active for many years in language technology which he has
combined with his professional activities as a psychotherapist. He now applies
those expertise to organizational issues in change management and knowledge
management. He holds five degrees from various universities including a Ph.D. from
Monash University in machine learning.
Mohammad Abdur Rashid is a Senior Lecturer of Computer, Information and Communications Engineering at Massey University (New Zealand). He received M.Sc.Eng. degree in electronics engineering specializing in engineering cybernetics systems from the Technical University of Wroclaw in 1978 and PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1986. Dr. Rashid is a co-author of Enterprise Resource Planning: Global Opportunities and Challenges. He has publications in international journals and conferences covering his areas of research. His research interests are multimedia communication networks, embedded systems design, network protocols and performance studies; mobile wireless multimedia communication and ERP systems.