Global Business Management and Project Management

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IEOM Global Business Management Education focus on quality education and curriculum improvement, assessment, learning and career development. It addresses readiness for business management graduate for industry ready around the globe. IEOM Global Business Management Education focuses in the following areas but not limited to:

• Operations management, supply chain management, logistics management, MIS, IT, cybersecurity, finance, project management, business intelligence and analytics, risk management, ERP/CRM, quality management, inventory management, lean management, management science, productivity management or similar topics

Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the 3rd Australian Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.

IEOM Global Supply Chain and Education
9:00 – 10:45 am, Thursday, September 26 – Room 1

Chair and Speaker I:
Dr George Panas
Enterprise Fellow, Management and Marketing
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Topic: From Classroom Concepts to Real-World Application: The Role of Managerial Storytelling and Student Perspectives in Supply Chain Education

Dr George Panas has 25 years of senior management experience in industry and consulting. After that, he transitioned to academia with the completion of my PhD in 2022. His areas of interest or specialisation include:
e-commerce supply chains (grocery, general merchandise & apparel retail), Supply chain and the UN SDGs (including modern slavery, environmental / food and packaging waste, procurement diversity), Supply chain strategy & network design/optimisation, Retail global sourcing & logistics, Supply chain operations in Asia (including China, HK, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc),International supply chain management (sea & air freight, freight forwarding, origin value added services, etc), Corporate strategy, financial planning and analysis, Financial/Mathematical optimisation modelling & techniques, Supply chain commercial finance

Speaker II

Dr Ravi Seethamraju
Associate Professor
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 

Topic: Business Management Education – Changing focus in Changing Times

Ravi has 25 years of teaching, research & leadership experience in Australian universities and 10 years of management consulting experience prior to that. Ravi’s research is multi-disciplinary, industry-relevant and explores the evolving relationships between IT-enabled innovations and performance in organisations, healthcare and in improving students’ learning experience and ‘work-readiness’. He has published more than 100 research articles, and his work appeared in several leading international journals such as Information & Organisation, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, Information Systems Frontiers, Australian Journal of Management, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and others. His current collaborative research projects include impact of AI, blockchain & digital transformation on business & professions, sustainability information systems, honesty in managerial reporting and healthcare analytics. He held several leadership positions including chairperson – Supply Chain Council ANZ, Education Committee of the Association for Information Systems, Chairperson for University of Sydney Ethics Committee. He is currently serving as non-executive director on the boards of four higher education providers and a non-profit charity organisation. During his career, he has successfully introduced several teaching innovations – work integrated learning, simulation gaming, technology integration into business curriculum, technology-enabled active learning, and, designed two post graduate programs. He was recipient of Australian post graduate research award, university of Sydney business school teaching excellence award and Australian Kit Dampney prize for Information systems teaching and research.

Speaker III

Dr Albert Munoz
Senior Lecturer, UOW School of Business
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

Topic: Taking charge of the genAI elephant in the room: Adapting the operations management educator from within

Dr. Albert Munoz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong within the Supply Chain and Analytics Discipline in the School of Business. After receiving his PhD from the University of Wollongong, Albert has dedicated over 10 years of experience in teaching and learning operations and supply chain management. Throughout this time, Albert has developed considerable expertise in leveraging emerging technologies to enhance the student experience. Recently, Albert has leveraged the emergent capabilities of genAI to further enhance educational designs, while remaining consistent with established teaching and learning theories. One recent example is the use of constructivism and gamification to refocus operations management education towards analytic skills development. Future endeavours will focus on the implementation of assessment reforms in the age of genAI that preserve the integrity and validity of assessments.

Co-chair and Speaker IV

Dr Arshia Kaul
Associate Lecturer
Management and Marketing
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Topic: Education 4.0 Unleashed: Empowering Learners for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Arshia Kaul is a PhD., MPhil., M.Sc. (Gold Medalist) in Operational Research, Master Trainer Program – Teaching, Training & Developing Professionals (EIU). She is a Post Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design and Diploma in Virtual Online Teaching course. She is also a certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma and recently completed a Professional Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation Management. She has completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from Boxhill, Institute, Melbourne, Australia. She has published 20+ research papers published in journals of national and international repute and presented at 10+ conferences. One of her most recent articles was published in Business Strategy and the Environment (Impact factor- 10.302). Her current research interests are quality management, supply chain management and Education 4.0.