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Josep Valor

  • Josep Valor Sabatier

  • Professor of Information Systems

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Operations Research), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Doctor of Sciences in Medical Engineering, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
    Doctor of Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Interests Area

    * Strategies in the management of IT resources: cloud computing, outsourcing and alliances
    * Competitive strategy and IT/IS
    * New businesses based on IT/IS
    * Management of healthcare institutions
    * The telecommunications industry
    * Media and entertainment

Josep Valor-Sabatier is professor of information systems and information technology and Associate Dean of Executive Education. He is a member of the IESE Executive Committee.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy. In in-company training he has been involved in projects with leading organizations like the Telefonica, Ericsson, Vodafone, The World Bank, Santander, BBVA ,Oracle, Sony, Technicolor, Abbott, ING, BASF, KPMG, Henkel and 3i.

His research has been published in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Knowledge and Process Management and he has published books on the information-telecommunications hyper-industry and information systems management. His current research interests focus on the impact of ITCs on competitiveness and industry structure, with emphasis on telecommunications and media.

Prof. Valor served as the conference co-chair of the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Barcelona.