Faculty Development Programs



Faculty Development Program

Speaker: Dr. Qizhang Liu

Associate Professor
NUS Business School
Ph.D. in Mathematics, National University of Singapore

Three-Day Faculty Development Program In Analytics

23-25 February 2023

Speaker: Dr. Qizhang Liu

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Qizhang Liu is Associate Professor at the Department of Analytics and Operations, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He chairs the Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee of the school and is a member of Biz Teaching Excellence Council and MSBA Academic Committee. Dr Liu has been teaching analytics related courses since joining NUS in 2011. Currently, he oversees the development of Business Analytics Specialisation in Business School.

His research papers include :-

  • Effect of Gamification on Intrinsic Motivation, TA-Q-BIN: Service Excellence and Innovation in Urban Logistics
  • Flow-based Accessibility Measurement: The Place Rank Approach
  • Models for Effective Deployment and Redistribution of Bicycles within Public Bicycle-Sharing Systems.

He has authored cases : Ronds – A pioneer in a blue ocean (A) and  Ronds – A pioneer in a blue ocean (B),  The Journey from Physical to Digital: Technology Transformation of Wanda Group.

His contribution to system development include :

  • Advanced Train Operation Management System (ATOMS) for SMRT Trains Ltd.
  • Crew Scheduling and Rostering System for SMRT Circle Line.
  • Train Travel Time Forecasting engine for SMRT Trains Ltd.
  • Bus Arrival Time Forecasting System for SMRT Bus Operations.
  • Trainload Estimation System for SMRT Planning Department.
  • Fare Determination System for SMRT Revenue Office.
  • Depot Management System for Ministry of Defence, Singapore more..

PARTICIPANT PROFILE:

Participations are invited from the faculty members of  all functional areas of Management.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

23 February 2023 10:00 -11:30 hrs 12:00 -13:30 hrs 14:30 -16:00 hrs
Session 1. Analytics for Managers

Data dashboard for decision making – Olist case

Session to cover : (1) Business questioning; (2) Data handling; (3) Dashboard with PowerBI.

Dr. Qizhang Liu

Session 2. Analytics for Managers

Optimization for what? – Wong’s Pottery Case

Session to cover : How to use Excel to do optimization modelling.

Why optimization is far more than a Math modelling process.

Dr. Qizhang Liu

 

Session 3. : Analytics for Managers: Business analytics in a new era — practical implications and research trends

Dr. Yiyang Bian, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong in Dubai

24 February 2023 10:00 -11:30 hrs 12:00 -13:30 hrs  14:30 -16:00 hrs
Session 4. R and machine learning models

Introduction to R and RStudio

Marketing with data in an amusement park – application of linear regression in R.

 

Dr. Qizhang Liu

Session 5. Data Visualisation with R

A billion dollar decision with two charts – Singapore TOTO case.

TOTO case will be conducted in R

Dr. Qizhang Liu

Session 6. : Industry interface

Mr. Amit Gupta, EMBA from London Business School & Alumnus of IMTG PGDM 2003-05 batch.

25 February 2023 10:00 -11:30 hrs 12:00 -13:30 hrs
Presentation by Faculty Members Presentation by Faculty Members

Tea Break : 11.30-12.00 hrs  & Lunch Break  : 13.30-14.30 hrs

Speakers: Dr. Manuel A. Alonso Coto

Director of Corporate Marketing – Executive Education at IE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Madrid, Spain PhD in Economics, King Juan Carlos University, Spain

Speakers: Dr. Anssi Mattila

Principal Lecturer at Finnish University of Applied Sciences & and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ,US. Ph.D. in Business Administration, Jyvaskyla University, Finland

Three-Day Faculty Development Program In Digital Transformation

30th January – 1st February 2023

Speakers: Dr. Manuel A. Alonso Coto & Dr. Anssi Mattila

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Dr.  Manuel A. Alonso Coto has worked as a Director of Marketing, Executive Education, IE Business School, Director of Digital Marketing, Executive Education, IE Business School, Director of Customer Oriented Services, IE Business School, Director of Operations, elearning.net, Director of IT/IS, US Department of Spain & Portugal and Director of Manufacturing, Agrapisa. He has authored many books that includes “Conversational Capital” (Spanish version); “s-Internacionalization”; “Digital Recruitment & Self Branding”; “Political Marketing”; “Direct Marketing 2.0”; “Blended Marketing. The Digital Marketing Plan as an integrator of on and offline actions”; “From Second Life to Metaverses Marketing: Business in 3D”; “Social Media Marketing Plan”; “Exponential Companies: Making the Most of Digital Transformation”.

Dr. Mattila has specialized in the management of information security and technical information security. He is an expert in risk management, cyber security and privacy protection. He is a qualified Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor (ISO/IEC 27001:2005) and holds various U.S. governmental National Security Agency (NSA) and Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) approved certificates in the fields of information systems security and risk analysis. He   teaches information security, information security management, risk management, and cyber security .Dr. Mattila is the author of “Understanding Seamless Mobile Service Interface between Customer and Technology” and widely published throughout the top journals: i.e. International Journal of Financial Services Management; Problems and Perspectives in Management; Journal of Education, Psychology and Social Science; International Journal of Computing and Business Research; International Journal of Enterprise Computing and Business Systems.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE:

Participations are invited from the faculty members of  all functional areas of Management.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

30th January 2023 10:00 – 11:30 hrs & 12:00 – 13:30 hrs 14:30 – 16:00 hrs
GETTING TO KNOW THE NEW DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TOOLS IN 2023

  • Where we are standing in Digital Transformation in 2023
  • Cybersecutrity challenges for the new year
  • SmartContracts
  • Metaverses
  • Nanotech & Neurotech
  • New 3D Printing Paradigms

Dr. Manuel A. Alonso Coto

 

TOPIC : TBA

Dr. Anssi Mattila

31st January 2023 10:00 – 11:30 hrs & 12:00 – 13:30 hrs  14:30 – 16:00 hrs
MASTERING THE MAIN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TOOLS – SUCCESS CASES

  • Big Data
  • IoT (Internet of Things)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blockchain
  • Robotics
  • 5G Mobility

Dr. Manuel A. Alonso Coto

TOPIC : TBA

Dr. Anssi Mattila

1st February 2023 10:00 -11:30 hrs 12:00 -13:30 hrs
Presentation by Faculty Members Presentation by Faculty Members

Tea Break : 11.30-12.00 hrs  & Lunch Break  : 13.30-14.30 hrs

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Troege

ESCP Business School, France
Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin

Speaker: Mr. Nilay Ranjan Singh

Chief Executive Officer
State Bank of India, Dubai

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Mr. Nilay Ranjan Singh has a wide and diversified experience of 21 years in industry of banking and Steel, out of which 20 years in bank’s credit, syndication, treasury, International Banking, trade, IT, administration, merger, and operations at various levels and one year in HR and administration in Steel Industry. He is presently serving as Chief Executive Officer, State Bank of India, DIFC.more

Three-Day Faculty Development Program In Finance

12-14 January 2023

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Troege

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Michael Troege has been teaching Finance at ESCP Europe since 2000. Professor Troege received a master in Mathematics from the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen in 1993. He then obtained a DESS in Finance from the lnstitut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and in 1999 a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Humboldt Universitat Berlin. Prior to joining ESCP Europe he was research associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) a government sponsored think tank and visiting scholar at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Troege’s research focuses on game theory and commercial banking. In particular, he is studying the competitive interaction of banks in credit markets. In this context he has participated as expert in the European Commission’s Sector Inquiry in Retail banking published in 2007. His articles have been published in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals including the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Cames and Economic Behaviour, Journal of Economics, European Journal of Finance, International Journal of Industrial Economics, Annales d’Economie et de Statistiques and EC Competition Policy Newsletter. more..

PARTICIPANT PROFILE:

Participations are Invited from faculty members of Finance & Accounting, Economics, Marketing, and General Management disciplines.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

12 January 2023 10:00 -12:00 hrs 12:30 -13:30 hrs 14:30 -16:00 hrs
European Financial Markets

Prof. Dr. Michael Troge

Relationship Banking

Prof. Dr. Michael Troge

Contemporary Research Themes in Finance: Sustainable Finance

Dr. Haroon Khan, Associate Professor, Accounting and Finance, University of Wollongong in Dubai

13 January 2023 10:00 -11:00 hrs 11:00 -12:00 hrs & 12:30 -13:30 hrs  14:30 -16:00 hrs
Relationship Banking

Prof. Dr. Michael Troge

Strategic Default

Prof. Dr. Michael Troge

Recent trends in the UAE banking sector – Mr. Nilay Ranjan Singh, Chief Executive Officer, State Bank of India, Dubai
14 January 2023 10:00 -11:30 hrs 12:00 -13:30 hrs
Presentation by Faculty Members

Session chair : Dr. Aman Srivastava, Dean Academics, IMT Dubai

Presentation by Faculty Members

Session chair : Dr. Aman Srivastava, Dean Academics, IMT Dubai

Tea Break : 11.30-12.00 hrs  & Lunch Break  : 13.30-14.30 hrs

Dr. Swee Hoon Ang
PhD in Marketing from the University of British Columbia.
– Author, Speaker and Trainer

Three-Day Faculty Development Program In Marketing

15-17 December 2022

Speaker : Prof. Ang Swee Hoon, National University of Singapore

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Prof. Ang Swee Hoon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing, NUS Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of British Columbia. She has written several leading Marketing textbooks with Philip Kotler for Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She co-authored a series titled Kiasunomics: Stories of Singaporean Economic Behaviours that brings behavioral economic research to the general population to help them make sense of what they do so that they learnto make better decisions for a smarter-thinking nation. She has received almost 14000 citations on Google Scholar. Professor Ang is an outstanding educator having been honored with the university’s Teaching Excellence Awards on numerous occasions. more..

PARTICIPANT PROFILE:

Participations are Invited from faculty members of economics, marketing, and general management discipline. Interested faculty members from any other discipline and marketing managers with five years of experience may also participate.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

Date 10:00 -11.30 hrs 12:00 -13.30 hrs 14.30-16.00 hrs
15 December 2022 Consumer Behaviour

Prof. Ang Swee Hoon

Consumer Behaviour

Prof. Ang Swee Hoon

Customer perceived value: conceptualization and future research – Dr. Mohammed EI-Adly Head of Marketing, International Business and Innovation Division, Abu Dhabi University
16 December 2022 Neuromarketing

Prof. Ang Swee Hoon

Neuromarketing

Prof. Ang Swee Hoon

Presentation on Recent GCC Market Research by a renowned professional organization

 

17 December 2022 Presentation by Faculty Members Presentation by Faculty Members