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Dr. Cecil Bozarth
Dr. Cecil Bozarth is an Associate Professor of Business Administration
in the Supply Chain Management department at NC State University. His
research focuses on the strategic match between the operations and supply
chain needs of organizations and their MIS investments. This area of
research is particularly pertinent given the emergence of new technologies
and the substantial investments made by a growing number of companies
on information systems. According to Dr. Bozarth, assessing whether
or not these information systems are aligned with the specific business
needs of the organization is a fundamental step in the decision process
that companies often tend to ignore
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Professor Bozarth became interested in the business issues driving the
organizational investments in information technology while he was at
IBM. Between 1984-1988, Dr. Bozarth worked with IBM as a systems engineer
helping companies select hardware and software solutions to their business
problems. He earned a Master of Science in Decision Sciences from Georgia
State University while he was at IBM and then went on to get a Ph.D.
in Business Administration with a specialization in Operations Management
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Bozarth is trying to reflect this growing emphasis on information
visibility and flow across the supply chain in his graduate course for
supply chain management students at NC State. He has divided the course
into three parts, the first focusing on the classic logic of production
and control systems, the second emphasizing the supply chain perspective
and the third revolving around information systems. He encourages his
students to look at every tool and technique covered in the class from
the perspective of the entire supply chain rather than just the firm.
Dr. Bozarth’s research has been published in The Journal of Operations
Management, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Decision Sciences
and The International Journal of Operations and Production Management.
He is an associate editor of the Journal of Operations Management and
serves on the editorial review boards of the Production and Operations
Management Journal and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.
He is also a past chair of the Operations Management Division of the
Academy of Management. Professor Bozarth has been invited to speak in
a number of professional meetings and his consulting experience includes
educational consulting projects with Bayer Pharmaceuticals and IBM and
traditional consulting projects with GKN, Daimler Benz and Ford Motor
Company.
Dr. Bozarth has been recognized for his teaching as well as professional
contributions. He was named by APICS as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
in the area of Supply Chain Management. In 2002, he was awarded the
NC State University College of Management teaching award. Dr. Bozarth
received his Bachelor of Management Sciences from the University of
Georgia in 1984. Upcoming activities include a book, co-authored with
Dr. Robert Handfield, that is an introduction to operations and supply
chain topics and a sabbatical at the Darden school of Business at the
University of Virginia in the spring during which he will collaborate
with faculty there to develop a series of case studies specifically
addressing how MIS investments match up against supply chain activities.
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