PhD,
Stanford University, 1974
James K. Ho is a Professor of Information & Decision sciences in the
College of Business Administration
at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. He graduated from Columbia
University in 1970 and obtained his Ph.D from Stanford
University in 1974. He has published widely in academic and professional
journals and authored four books.
The most recent, entitled Cyber
Tigers: How Companies in Asia can Prosper from E-Commerce (Prentice
Hall/Pearson Education Asia, 2000), has been translated into Chinese and
published in September 2000 by South
China Morning Post (SCMP) Book Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong.
Dr. Ho has extensive experience working with international organizations,
major corporations, as well as small businesses in the application of information
technology in the workplace. His executive seminars on "Competing in
the Information Age: Maximizing the Payoff from Information Technology",
"Internet Strategies: Beyond Web Sites and Home Pages", and "Managing
E-commerce and Online Business" have been presented in USA, Canada,
France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway and Singapore.
Dr. Ho teaches courses in information and operations management for BBA,
MBA, MS, and Ph.D students, making extensive use of Web resources. In May
and June 1997, Dr. Ho lectured in New Zealand as an Erskine Fellow at the
University of Canterbury, University of Auckland, Victoria University of
Wellington, and the University of Waikato at Hamilton. He was the keynote
speaker at the Electronic Commerce Pan-Asian Forum held in November 1997
in Singapore and Hong Kong, and at the AIA-CGA-CIMA-CMA Joint Symposium
on "E-commerce: What is in it for Accounting Professionals?" in Hong Kong,
February 2000. More recently, he has been featured speaker in Hong Kong
at the American Chamber of Commerce, Internet Commerce Expo & Conference,
Technology Exchange Forum on e-Banking and e-Financing, Senior Executive
Summit on e-Business Planning, Strategies and Implementation, Internet and
Information Forum, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University; in China at Internet
and Information Forum, Shanghai, e-China 2001 Guangzhou [Keynote], Peking
University, Tsinghua University, International University of International
Business and Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; in
Macau at University of Macau; in Singapore at Computer Society, National
University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technical University; in Japan at University
of Tokyo, and Foundation for Multimedia Communications; in Korea at Seoul
National University, and Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology;
in Malaysia at University of Malaya; in Thailand at Thammasat Univeristy,
and APEC Workshop on Strategic e-Commerce and Management; in Canada at Univeristy
of Waterloo, and McMaster University; in Australia at University of Western
Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University of Technology, and
Murdoch University.
To assist small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in Asia to embark on e-commerce,
Dr. Ho has launched Cyber Tigers Online (www.cyber-tigers.com),
a business portal and virtual community featuring TigerTalk[sm]: the First,
Fast, and Free b2b e-mail service on the Web with Flawless translations
and little or no typing. Part of this work has now evolved into the APEC
Multilingual Internation Trade Project, leading to collaborations with
numerous organizations committed to promoting e-commerce among SMEs.Specific
applications include TigerTalk for Travelers and Innkeepers: a free service
to enable multilingual online communication in the travel and tourism industries.
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