Author Archives: Umar Ruhi
Q1: Are you a high performing undergraduate student from one of these countries: Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Ukraine? Q2: Are you interested in the field of information systems? Q3: Are you interested in pursuing a summer research internship in Canada in 2019? If you’ve answered yes to the questions above, then you… Read More »
As discussed in a previous blog post, my research article on enterprise gamification recently got picked up by GamEffective – a market leader in gamification platforms for employee performance and learning. I was delighted to learn that GamEffective identifies with many of the findings from my research. The company has written about my research on their website, and… Read More »
The three-week intensive course EBC7101 (Research Workshop in E-Business) has now come to an end. I had a great bunch of graduate students (mostly M.Sc. and some Ph.D.) who were working on their research projects and theses in a variety of areas ranging from healthcare analytics, open data, e-learning communities, cross-border e-commerce, online consumer reviews text-mining, and agile… Read More »
My research on gamification recently got picked up by GamEffective, a market leader in gamification platforms for employee performance and learning. Gal Rimon, the company’s Founder and CEO talked about my 2015 journal article on enterprise gamification in his blog post. In the blog post, Gal correctly points out my article’s main premise about “meaningful” gamification which aims… Read More »
Our edited book titled “E-Technologies: Embracing the Internet of Things” has now been published by Springer. The book comprises conference proceedings from MCETECH 2017 (Multidisciplinary Conference on E-Technologies) for which I was the Program Committee Co-Chair along with my colleagues Esma Aïmeur from the University of Montreal, and Michael Weiss from Carleton University. The book was published under Springer’s Lecture Notes… Read More »
This summer I am going to be teaching two graduate-level research methods courses (EBC7101 and EBC7102) for Master’s and Doctoral students in the E-Business Technologies programs at the University of Ottawa. This is the fourth offering of these courses, and I have particularly enjoyed teaching these courses. Not only do I get to draw upon my formal research… Read More »
I just uploaded a screencast video demonstrating a few methods to consume XML web services. In the tutorial, I demonstrate how to use a simple currency exchange web service in three different ways: i) through a stand-alone requester agent ii) through a web browser iii) through Excel 2013 and its new WebService and FilterXML functions. Here’s… Read More »
This summer, I’m going to be teaching an MBA seminar course titled: “Enterprise Social Media Strategy” – Link to Course Outline (PDF). As a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, I’m delighted to say that this course uniquely positions us among the very few business schools in Canada that have a holistic course offering… Read More »
While business use of social media has flourished over the past few years, there still is a hesitation on the part of many small and medium sized organizations in adopting enterprise 2.0 tools. I usually get asked about my recommendations for such firms who are interested in getting started with enterprise 2.0 but don’t know where to begin.… Read More »
Ever feel the need for a project management tool that would help you manage other project management tools you’re currently using? I know the feeling all too well. Whether it’s a software development project where you’re allocating tasks, managing revisions, tracking milestones & deliverables, or a collaborative publication project where you’re using wikis, emails, and to-do-lists, things get messy… Read More »