UA Researcher Wins IBM Award

By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson

Apr. 15–For the second year in a row, Amar Gupta, Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology at The University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, is the recipient of the IBM Faculty Award.

The award program is designed to foster collaboration between university researchers and those in IBM research, development, and services organizations. The company looks worldwide for recipients.

IBM engineers Kenneth Day and Kenneth Boyd of Tucson, are working with Gupta as he continues to refine his research on the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory production model. Boyd is currently on assignment in Tel Aviv and is using some of Gupta’s ideas.

An expert in outsourcing and offshoring, Gupta’s 24-Hour Knowledge Factory is a production model that establishes that each member of a globally distributed team works the normal workday hours that pertain to his or her time zone. At the end of the workday, a fellow team member located in a different time zone continues the same task. With three sets of individuals performing work over a 24-hour period, the time needed to develop information systems is drastically reduced. Gupta’s paradigm will apply to a broad spectrum of business functions ranging from medical services to logistics planning, and from financial analysis to product design.

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