Oscar Avila has worked for more than 12 years on international consulting projects in Europe and Latin America. In Europe, he worked for the international consulting company CapGemini, where he served as a consultant and IT project and service manager in serveral industrial sectors such as: energy and utilities, defense, railway, automotive and agri-food. In Latin America he has worked as a consultant and IT analyst in sectors such as banking, distribution and state sector.

Oscar defended his PhD thesis on Business / IT alignment at the University of Strasbourg in 2009. He obtained a postdoctoral fellow in 2010 from the car industry to research on adaptation of IT process methods for modelling manufacturing processes. In addition, he holds an MSc in IT from the University of Technology of Troyes (2005) and a Computing engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Grupo:: Research Group:

• TICSw-Tecnologías de Información y Construcción de Software

Intereses y Líneas de Investigación:

• Alineación del Negocio y las Tecnologías de Informacion
• Gestión de Servicios de TI, Gestión de Proyectos de TI, Gestión Financiera de TI
• Transformación de la Experiencia del Cliente Digital, Transformación de Servicios Digitales

Steering committees

• Chair – 2nd International Workshop on Transforming the Digital Customer Experience (DigEx-2020) held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS-2020), University of Colorado, USA
• Chair – 1st International Workshop on Transforming the Digital Customer Experience (DigEx-2019) held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS-2019), Sevilla, Spain, 2019.
• Chair and organising committee member – 2nd professional forum on IT service management, Bogotá, Colombia, 2017
• Chair and organising committee member – 1st professional forum on IT service management, Bogotá, Colombia, 2015

Session Chair – Program Committee

• Program committee member – 23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2020)
• Program committee member – International Workshop on Transforming the Digital Customer Experience (during 2 years: 2019 and 2020)
• Program committee member – International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS (during 5 years: 2015- 2019)
• Session chair – 15th International Join Conference on E-Business and Telecomunications ICETE (2018)
• Program committee member – International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering ENASE (during 3 years: 2015-2017)
• International Board of Reviewers member – IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Technology (ICIMTech 2016), Jakarta, Indonesia
• Member of the focal groups of the Program for Excellence in Electronic Government (PEGEL), which is a joint project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MinTIC).

Actividades académicas con la industria

• Founder and director – Uniandes  – SAP NextGen Innovation Hub (2018 – up-today)
• Primary Faculty Coordinator – SAP University Alliances – University of los Andes (2014 – up-today)
• Jury member – National innovation awards – Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) (2019), Cartagena, Colombia
• Jury/panel member – 2019 SAP Innovation Contest – SAP Colombia (2019), Bogotá, Colombia
• Chair – 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Enterprise Information Systems’ Project Exposition – event supported by SAP Colombia and Universidad de los Andes (2018 – 2019), Bogotá, Colombia

Education

Academic experience

Non-academic experience

Certifications or professional registrations

Colombia, Professional Card on Computing and systems engineering

Current membership in professional organizations

Member of the Association for Information Systems – AIS

Honors and awards

• PhD fellowship: Allocation de recherche ‐ France, French Ministry of Education
• Mention “excellent” by the jury after the defense of my PhD thesis, University of Strasbourg
• Qualification to work as a professor in French universities, French Ministry of Education

List of the most important publications and presentations from the past five years

13. Avila O. “Preventing Business and Information Technology Misalignment When Introducing Technology Changes”. International Journal Of Business Information Systems (ISSN 1746-0980), pp. 1-13. 2017.
14. Avila O, Garces K. “Change Management support to preserve Business – Information Technology Alignment”. Journal of computer information systems (ISSN 0887-4417), pp. 1-18. 2016
15. Garcés K, Avila O. “A Change Management Review: Extracting Concepts to Preserve Business and IT Alignment”. Lectures Notes in Business Information Processing (ISBN 978-3-319-11460-6) Prague, República Checa. 2016.
16. Avila O, Sastoque S. “A survey on availability calculation and definition for Information Technology services”. Proceedings of the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016) (ISBN 9789860491029) Chia-i Chia-I, Taiwan. 2016.
17. Goepp V, Avila O. “An Extended-Strategic Alignment Model for technical information system alignment”. International Journal Of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (ISSN 0951-192X) 28 (-), pp. 1275-1290. 2015.
18. Avila O, Goepp V. “Means for Building Models to Align Information Systems Support to Specific Application Domains”. Lectures Notes in Business Information Processing (ISBN 978-3-319-11460-6) Poznan, Polonia. 2015.
19. Avila O, Goepp V, Kiefer F. “ATIS: a method for the complete alignment of technical information systems”. International Journal Of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (ISSN 0951-192X) 24 (11), pp. 993-1009. 2011
20. Goepp V, Kiefer F, Avila O. “Information system design and integrated enterprise modelling through a key-problem framework”. Computers in Industry (ISSN 0166-3615) 59 (7), pp. 660-671. 2008

Percentage of time available for research or scholarly activities

Teaching 50%, Research 25% and Curricular Committee 25%

Percentage of time committed to the program

100% (Full Time)