Dr. Elliot Bendoly is the Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor in the Operations and Business Analytics department, at the Ohio State University, and Operations Management Distinguished Scholar at the Academy of Management. He was the Caldwell Research Fellow at Emory University. At Fisher, he has served as Undergraduate Associate Dean and Co-Academic Director of the Specialized Master in Business Analytics. Prior to academia Dr. Bendoly worked as a research engineer for the Intel Corporation, and worked with NASA and CAM-LEM. He holds a PhD from Indiana University in the fields of Operations Management and Decision Sciences, with an Information Systems specialization in ERP and Knowledge Management. He has served as an instructor and developer of SAP implementation and ABAP/4 programming curriculum. More recently he has been involved with coursework on IT-supported service operations and DSS development for managers. He has served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Operations Management, and Senior Editor at the Production and Operations Management journal (Behavioral Operations and Management of Technology departments). His own publications in JOM, POM, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly and Journal of Applied Psychology, represent no less than 34 published academic articles, with 37 additional articles appearing in other peer reviewed outlets (Journal of Business Logistics, Decision Sciences, etc.; Google scholar h-index of 46). His current research interests are split between studies into the effectiveness of Project Management, Operations/Strategy/IT alignment, and investigations in two general areas of focus in the Behavioral Operations domain: Collaboration/group dynamics; and Work policies/task complexity/uncertainty. His LinkedIn discussion forum, “Excel Blackbelts”, boasts 30,000+ members, while his forum on "Operations Management in Practice" holds 26,000+. Dr. Bendoly is regularly asked to contribute to blogs and discussions on the topic of tactics in decision support design with Excel. He also runs a group on Behavioral Operations Management and a group on discussions of data acquisition and analysis scope and velocity.Dr. Bendoly is the author of “Excel Basics to Blackbelt”, “Strategic ERP Extension and Use”, “Handbook of Research in Enterprise Systems”, “Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management”, “Visual Analytics for Management” and “Mastering Project Discovery”. Read more about this authorRead less about this author