Center for Digital Transformation - The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine

The Center for Digital Transformation (formerly CRITO)

UPCOMING EVENTS

CDT is pleased to be a supporting organization for The Economist's Ideas Economy: Information Forum to be held on June 4th, 2013 in San Francisco. This event will explore how businesses and organizations can harness the world's avalanche of information to unlock new forms of economic value. The Economist is providing a discount of $400 to friends and associates of CDT who register. Click here for further information and to register for this event.

IDEA EXCHANGE: BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS

The next Idea Exchange:Big Data and Analytics event is scheduled for September, 2013. Please check back for further information. CDT's inaugural event was held on March 28, 2013. Click here for a summary of this event which appeared in The Paul Merage School of Business, Dean's Quarterly (Spring 2013).

IDEA EXCHANGE: DIGITAL HEALTHCARE

The next Idea Exchange: Digital Healthcare event is scheduled for July 17, 2013. Please check back for further information.

INTERVIEW ON THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

IN HEALTHCARE

Vijay Gurbaxani was recently a guest on Voice of the Doctor, a radio program hosted by Dr. Nick van Terheyden, CMIO for Nuance and our panel moderator for the inaugural Idea Exchange: Digital Healthcare held in January. Vijay spoke on the Digital Revolution in Healthcare. To download the podcast, click here.

NEWS & ACHIEVEMENTS

CDT AWARDED GRANT FROM NSF

Vijay Gurbaxani, Director, Center for Digital Transformation, has been awarded a highly competitive planning grant as part of the NSF's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) program. Gurbaxani will work in collaboration with researchers from NYU's Stern School of Business, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and Clemson University. The consortium seeks to partner with industry to answer analytics, data aggregation, and visualization questions associated with extracting usable business intelligence and analytics from social media. Further information can be found here.

CDT & CHCMP AWARDED GRANT FROM

QUALCOMM FOUNDATION

Vijay Gurbaxani, Director, Center for Digital Transformation, and Paul Feldstein, Director, Center for Health Care Management and Policy, have been awarded a planning grant from the Qualcomm Foundation aimed at determining the feasibility and design of a research project in the economics of wireless health.

FACULTY ASSOCIATE AWARDED GRANT

John Turner, Faculty Associate in the Center and Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in The Paul Merage School of Business has been awarded a 2012 Yahoo! Faculty Research Grant for studying computational issues that arise in advertising planning problems.

DIRECTOR VIJAY GURBAXANI AND

SENIOR FELLOW NICK VITALARI

TO LECTURE IN MERAGE'S STRATEGIC

ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT (SIMS)

The SIMS program provides senior managers with an opportunity to both update and broaden their business skill set and knowledge. World-class faculty from the Paul Merage School of Business and the business community conduct highly interactive seminars designed to address today's most pressing management needs. Register today for Dr. Gurbaxani’s session: Creating Value Through Digital Economics: Driving Innovation With Big Data (on April 10) and Dr. Vitalari’s session: The Elastic Enterprise: Being Fast, Flexible and Fiercely Competitive (on June 12). Visit merage.uci.edu/go/SIMS to learn more.

THE DIGITAL UPRISING: RETHINKING HOW TO SUCCEED

IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Our sold-out event featured engaging presentations by Vijay Gurbaxani, Director, Center for Digital Transformation, Peter Hinssen, Author and CEO, and an expert business panel. A video recording of the event can be found here.