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Faculty and Staff

Robert  Plant

Robert Plant

Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems

(305) 284-1963
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 and 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

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

Specialties

  • Strategy and information technology
  • E-commerce strategy

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