Bipin Prabhakar

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP), Information Systems Risk and Security

Academic Degrees

• Doctor of Business Administration, Mississippi State University, May 1999
• Master of Science, Information Systems, Mississippi State University, August 1996
• Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, University of Kerala

Professional Experience

• SAP Fellow in Enterprise Systems, March 2005-August 2008, College of Business, University of Cincinnati
• Academic Director, MS-Information Systems Program, September 2004-August 2008, College of Business, University of Cincinnati
• Director of Information Technology, April 2001-August 2006, College of Business, University of Cincinnati
• Assistant Professor of Information Systems, College of Business, University of Cincinnati

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• Daniel J. Westerbeck award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, College of Business, University of Cincinnati, May 2007
• Microsoft ACE Security Fellowship, Microsoft Corporatioin, November 2005
• EXCEL Graduate Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, University of Cincinnati, 2005
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Selected Publications

• Litecky, Chuck, Andrew Aken, Bipin Prabhakar, and Kirk Arnett (2010), "Skills in the MIS Job Market," Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA, August.

Abstract With the current turmoil in the U.S. economy, it is more necessary than ever to ensure that graduates and employees have the skills necessary to compete in the job market. Previous research has looked at job advertisements in print and online media to determine skills that employers were seeking. That research has allowed only a relatively small sample of the jobs currently available to be analyzed. This research uses a web content data mining program which has obtained one quarter of a million U.S. job advertisements for information technology degree graduates from various job websites. The web content mining program then extracted the skills mentioned in those job ads for subsequent analysis.

• Prabhakar, Bipin (2009), "Business Process Integration Project Using SAP," Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Phoenix, AZ, December.
• Litecky, Chuck, Bipin Prabhakar, and Kirk P. Arnett (2008), "The Size of the IT Job Market: The 1990s vs. the 2000s," Communications of the ACM, April.
• Lopes, Alex, Ajay Mehra, and Bipin Prabhakar (2006), "The Effects of Communication Medium on Patterns of Communication," Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August.
• Prabhakar, Bipin, Chuck Litecky, and Kirk P. Arnett (2005), "IT Skills in a Tough Job Market," Communications of the ACM, October.

Abstract IT professionals know they must keep their skills up to date. But doing so requires knowing what skills are in demand.

• Kim, Kyung Kyu, and Bipin Prabhakar (2004), "Initial Trust as a Determinant of the Adoption of Internet Banking," The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Spring.
• Litecky, Chuck, Kirk P. Arnett, and Bipin Prabhakar (2004), "The Paradox of Soft Skills versus Technical Skills in IS Hiring," Journal of Computer Information Systems, Fall.

Abstract This paper calls attention to a paradox in the recruiting and hiring literature in IS and offers a possible reconciliation of the paradox based on recent advances in behavioral decision theory. The paradox is the contradictory demand for IT/IS technologies as advertised job skills in contrast to soft skills as actual or implicit hiring criteria. The specific purpose of this research is to introduce a model that may explain and reconcile the use and importance of both technical skills and soft skills in the hiring of IS personnel. This model utilizes a variant of emerging behavioral decision theory, called Image Theory to develop a two-stage process of IS hiring where the first stage utilizes technical skills for filtration and the second stage utilizes soft skills for the choice in actual hiring. This model of IS hiring decision making may serve as a starting point for future research on the demand for IS job skills.

• Litecky, Chuck, K. Arnett, and Bipin Prabhakar (2004), "Turnaround in the MIS Job Market?," Proceedings of the National Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, November.