Josep Valor

Doctor of Philosophy (Operations Research), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Sciences in Medical Engineering, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Doctor of Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya Biography: Dr. Josep Valor-Sabatier is Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and professor of Information Systems and Information Technology at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His current research interests are on the impact of ITCs on competitiveness and industry structure. Dr. Valor has been the coordinator of the Task Force of the Spanish Prime Minister to propose a nation-wide strategy on information technology and for the impulse of the information society. His research has been published in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Knowledge and Process Management. Dr. Valor has recently published a book on the information-telecommunications hyper-industry, and one on Information Systems Management. He is on the editorial board of Information and Management. Dr. Valor served as the Conference Co-Chair for the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Barcelona. Areas of interest: * New strategies in the management of IT resources: outsourcing and alliances * Competitive strategy and IT/IS * New businesses based on IT/IS * The Internet-Electronic business * Management of healthcare institutions * Management of service companies * Media and entertainment

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Posts by Josep Valor

Got some change? I have to buy a service company!

October 3, 2009 - 7:06 pm

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Xerox announced last September 27th that it will  buy ACS (Affiliated Computer Services) for $6.4 billion dollars. ACS is according to Forrester Research one of the leading global IT infrastructure
providers. This leading pack of providers, according to Forrester Research, includes among a few others the aforementioned ACS, IBM, EDS and Perot Systems.
Mergers and consolidation of [...]

Increased Information Freedom in China

July 9, 2009 - 5:57 pm

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Greetings from China. I am writing this post from China where I am traveling with a group of global executives in the context of a corporate training program. I had not been in China for a year and a half and I must say that I can feel the effect of social media in the [...]

Is free music the solution to pirated music?

October 8, 2008 - 11:52 pm

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That the music industry is in disarray is a huge understatement. Their sales have been diminishing constantly since 2003 and although digital sales have picked up some of the slack, they have not been able maintain the level of business, never mind growing it.
The problem, of course, has been the appearance of a number of [...]