Contact
a.rashid@ajman.ac.ae
06 705 6608
Ajman Campus
Ammar Rashid

Dr. Ammar Rashid is working as an Associate Professor (Information Systems) in College of Engineering and IT. Previously he worked as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Business Administration at NUR International University (NIU). Along with a Ph.D. in Business Information Systems from New Zealand, he has over 15+ years of professional/teaching/research/consulting work experience in USA, New Zealand and Pakistan. Prior to his appointment at NIU, he worked for four years as an Assistant Professor, Director Quality Enhancement Cell, Head of Division, and Principal Researcher at UCP Business School. He has also worked as a faculty member in the Department of Business Information Systems at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Business School, New Zealand from 2010-2013. Furthermore he has initiated Enterprise Resource Planning certification/training programs (SAP & Microsoft Dynamics) to support the teaching and learning of various courses at AUT and UCP Business School. Dr. Ammar has also got video recorded (50 hours) courses on Enterprise Resource Planning for BBA and MBA students of Virtual University of Pakistan. He serves on the editorial board/advisory board of several international journals.

Education
  • Ph.D. Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2013
  • M.S. Computer Information Systems, Grand Valley State University, USA, 2004
  • BS Computer Science, Hamdard University, Pakistan, 2002
Experience
  • Associate Professor (Information Systems), College of Engineering &IT, Ajman University, UAE, 2018-current
  • Associate Professor & HoD Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, NUR International University, Pakistan, 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Director QEC & HoD Information and Operations Management, UCP Business School, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan, 2013-2017
  • Lecturer, Department of Business Information Systems, AUT Business School, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2010-2013
Teaching Area
  • Strategic Information Systems
  • Enterprise Systems
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Science
  • E-Business / E-Commerce
  • IS Strategy, Management & Acquisition
  • Business Process Management/Modeling
  • Project Management
Research
  • Big Data
  • Decision Support and Analytics
  • Customer Knowledge Management
  • Enterprise Systems
Publications
Conference Presentation
  • Khurshid, M.N., Zakaria, N.H., Rashid, A., Kazmi, R. (2019). "Diffusion of Big Open Data policy innovation in Government and Public Bodies". International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications INTAP 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6052-7_28
  • Hashim, K.F. , Rashid, A. Mohd Yusof, S.A. (2013) "Online Privacy Awareness using Social Media: A Case study of Malaysian Youth" Information Systems International Conference (ISICO 2013), Bali, Indonesia, 2-4 December 2013
  • Tan, F. B., Hashim, K.F.,& Rashid, A. (2012). “Adult Learners’ Motivations to Adopt Mobile Learning ”, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012), Geelong, Australia, 3-5 December 2012
  • Hashim, K.F., Mohd Yusof, S.A., & Rashid, A. (2012). “The Understanding of Social Networking Site Adoption as S-commerce Platform”, Knowledge Management International Conference 2012 (KMICE 2012), Johor Baharu, Malaysia, . 4-7 July 2012
  • Rashid, A, William, Y. C. &. Hashim, K. (2011). “Social Networks and Its Impact on Knowledge Management”, Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE 2011), Penang, Malaysia, ISBN 978-1-4577-1640-9, pp. 227
  • Rashid, A., Wang, William Y.C., Tan, F.B. (2011). “Opportunities and Leverage in the Information Technology Post Adoption Stage”. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Developments in e-Systems Engineering (DESE 2011), Dubai, pp. 357
  • Rashid, A., Wang, William Y.C., Tan, F.B. (2011). “The Role of Systems Support & Maintenance in Business Process Innovation”. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Resources Managements (CONF-IRM 2011), Seoul, Korea, Paper 26. http://aisel.aisnet.org/confirm2011/26
  • Rashid, A., Wang, William Y.C., Tan, F.B. (2010). “Information Systems Maintenance: A key driver of Business Process Innovation”. Proceedings of 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), Peru, Paper 219. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/219
  • Rashid, A. & Wang, William Y.C. (2010). “Developing Information Systems Process Innovation Capability in Organizations.” Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Technology Innovation and Industrial Management (TIIM 2010), Thailand, ISSN-1906-7631
  • Rashid, A. (2010). “Investigating the relationship between Enterprise Systems Support and Business Innovation” The New Zealand Information Systems Doctoral Conference (NZISDC), 30 July 2010, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Rashid, A., Metaxiotis, K., Kausar, A.R. (2010). “Role of Social Computing in the implementation of a Knowledge City Portal.” Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (ICKD 2010), Indonesia, iccea vol. 2, pp.379-383, 2010
  • Rashid, A., Wang, William Y.C., Dorner, D. (2009). "Gauging the Differences between Expectation and Systems Support: The Managerial Approach of Adaptive and Perfective Software Maintenance." Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology (COINFO 2009), China, pp.45-50
  • Rashid, A. (2005). “Six Sigma and IT Values: An Innovative Relationship” 7th International Research Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge Management (QIK2005), Malaysia
Memberships, Awards and Honors
  • Association for Information Systems
  • Information Systems Audit and Control Association
  • Academy of Management