Working papers:

1. A Qualitative Investigation of the Effects of Influence Tactics and Contingency Factors on the Adoption and Diffusion of the UM System’s Emergency Mass Notification System at the UM– St. Louis Campus.     Rooji Sugathan • Michael Cornish

2. Eleminating the problem of the "Stupid User" by narrowing the gap between the users' mental model and the systems mental model.     Rooji Sugathan

Research Areas:

1. Technology Adoption
2. Mental Models and Usablilty
3. ERP Systems
4. Service Oriented Architecture
5. Productivity in Software development

Fall Semester
IS6835: IT-Enabled Business focuses on business models, processes, and activities made possible by the Internet. The course includes theoretic aspects of e-commerce: consumer relationship management, supply chain management, inventory management, business strategy, auctions, and portals. Issues associated with electronic commerce such as security, privacy, content selection and rating, intellectual property rights, authentication, encryption, acceptable use policies, and legal liabilities are explored. Particular attention is paid to IT-enabled entrepreneurship and business creation, and IT use in small to medium sized enterprises. Case studies drawn from actual business applications will be used to reinforce theory.   ....read more.

Management Reporting (Three day- Executive Seminar): A three day course on reporting using tools like Business Objects XI and Excel, with emphasis on the databases architecture, SQL query language, views and stored procedures.

Born and raised in the great subcontinent of India, Rooji Sugathan’s fascination for Information technology started in the year 1993. Learning to write code in a small dust free (shoes not allowed) air conditioned computer lab, where the room was filled with computers that took in 5 ˝ inch flop discs, DOS was the OS and COBOL and FoxPro the coolest programs. It didn’t take long for Rooji to realize that his fascination was more with the systems and process design than in the mere art of writing code on the monochrome screens – color monitors, windows were still a distant dream. After three years of juggling books, floppy disks, and computer labs this fascination came to a temporary halt when educators handed him a diploma in software engineering. Computer was an expensive and delicate product, and was mostly found in offices rather than at homes. Although Rooji was fortunate to have a PC at home with windows 95, but now he was pursuing his second fascination, (subconsciously it might be first) English literature.

As a graduate student of English Literature, he pondered over various intellectual discourses and philosophical arguments, like the purpose of human existence, religion, the essence of human life, and trying to understand the teaching and the works of great minds like Plato, Shakespeare, Kant, Jung, T.S. Elliot, Gandhiji, Thoreau, Conrad, Hemmingway and many others. This kept his mind in a constant state of flux or confusion, don’t get me wrong, this was as enjoyable and fruitful experience, he proclaims! And Rooji strongly believes that this experience plays a major role in his thought process even today and it helps him to better understand the human behavior.    ...read more

Business & Automation: “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” - Bill Gates