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Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems

(305) 284-1963
office:Jenkins 421C
rplant@miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Electronic commerce
  • Mass customization
  • Knowledge management and knowledge-based systems

Selected Publications

  • E-Commerce—Formulation of Strategy, Prentice Hall/Financial Times
    “Land Rover Vehicles: The CB40 Project,” European Case Clearing House (coauthor with Feeny and Mughal)
  • “Getting to ‘Bricks and Clicks’: B2C Leadership Strategies,” Sloan Management Review (coauthor with Willcoks)
  • “Software Cost Estimation Using Economic Production Models,” Journal of Management Information Systems (coauthor with Hu and Hertz)
  • “Using Meta-Knowledge Within a Multi-Level Framework for KBS Development,” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (coauthor with Gamble)
  • “Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Organizations,” Communications of the ACM (coauthor with Kuokka and O’Leary)

Teaching & Professional Experience

  • Fellow, British Computer Society
  • Visiting Professor, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
  • Research Associate, Oxford Institute Information Management
  • Visiting Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • European Engineer, European Federation of National Engineering Associations
  • Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Chartered Engineer, United Kingdom
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Professional + Internet

Degrees

  • University of Liverpool (England), Ph.D., Computer Science, November 1987.
  • Oxford University (England), M.Sc., Computation, November 1985.
  • The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton (England), B.Sc(Hons) 1st Class, Computer Science, 1984.

Specialties

  • Strategy and information technology
  • E-commerce strategy
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