Josep
Valor Sabatier

Emeritus Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Indra Chair of Digital Strategy

• Doctor in Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Doctor of Sciences in Medical Engineering, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• Doctor of Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Josep Valor-Sabatier is an emeritus professor of Operations, Information and Technology and information technology and the Indra Chair of Digital Strategy.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep Valor teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy.

In in-company training he has been involved in projects with leading organizations like the Telefonica, Ericsson, Vodafone, The World Bank, Santander, BBVA, Oracle, Sony, Technicolor, Abbott, ING, BASF, KPMG, Henkel and 3i.

His research has been published in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Knowledge and Process Management and he has published books on the information-telecommunications hyper-industry and Information Systems management. His current research interests focus on the impact of ITCs on competitiveness and industry structure, with emphasis on telecommunications and media.

Prof. Valor served as the conference co-chair of the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Barcelona.

Prof. Josep Valor is based on IESE New York Campus.

Areas of interest.

• Strategies in the management of IT resources: cloud computing, outsourcing and alliances
• Competitive strategy and IT/IS
• New businesses based on IT/IS
• Management of healthcare institutions
• The telecommunications industry
• Media and entertainment

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

HIRSCHHEIM, R., LOEBBECKE, C., NEWMAN, M., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2007). Offshoring and its Implications for the Information Systems Discipline. Where Perception Meets Reality. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2007 (20), 824 - 835. MIRALLES, F., SIEBER, S., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2006). An Exploratory Framework for Assessing Open Source Software. Systèmes d'Information et Management, 11 (1), 85 - 103. doi:10.9876/sim.v11i1.188. GEORGE, J. F., VALACICH, J. S., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2005). Does information systems still matter? Lessons for a maturing discipline. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (16).

Working Papers

VALOR SABATIER, J., ALEGRE, I. (2023). Detecting fake news: the effect of political ideology (WP-1313-E). Barcelona: IESE. VALOR SABATIER, J., FERRER, M. (2023). España, fondos NextGenerationEU y semiconductores (WP-1314). Barcelona: IESE. MIRALLES, F., SIEBER, S., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2005). CIO herds and user gangs in the adoption of open source software (DI-595-E).

Outreach Articles

ALEGRE, I., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2021). Fake News, un gran reto para las empresas en el S.XXI. Harvard Deusto Business Review, 315, pp. 52-60. VALOR SABATIER, J. (2006). Acertar en la tecnología. Las decisiones de las TIC en los próximos 25 años. Revista de Antiguos Alumnos (100), pp. 30 - 34. VALOR SABATIER, J. (2006). ICT Decisions Over the Next 25 years. The Ascent of Information and Communications Technologies. Alumni Magazine (100), pp. 20 - 24.

Books

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., BERASATEGUI RODRÍGUEZ, L., CARDONA SORIANO, P., CASTAÑOSA, C., FERNÁNDEZ, A., GARCÍA PONT, C., ... VIVES L. (2006). Mejorar la gestión de las empresas. Agunos de los mejores casos del IESE. Edición 2005. Aravaca: McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España. SIEBER, S., VALOR SABATIER, J., PORTA, V. (2005). Los sistemas de información en la empresa actual. Aspectos estratégicos y alternativas tácticas. Boston: McGraw-Hill. RICART, J. E., SUBIRANA VILANOVA, B., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2004). Sources of information value: Strategic framing and the transformation of the information industries. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

VALOR SABATIER, J., SÁEZ, L. (2006). Los sistemas de información. En Jaume Ribera, José A. Gutiérrez Fuentes, Magda Rosenmöller (Eds.), Gestión en el sector de la salud. Vol. 2: Elementos de gestión en las instituciones (pp. 407 - 429). Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall. SIEBER, S., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2004). Competitive dynamics of general portals. In Arthur Tatnall (Ed.), Web portals: The new gateways to Internet information and services (pp. 64 - 79). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., SUBIRANA VILANOVA, B., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2000). La influencia de las tecnologías de la información y comunicaciones en el empleo: Factores determinantes a nivel de empresa. En Jordi Gual (Ed.), Empleo y nuevas tecnologías. Cómo las nuevas tecnologías transforman el mundo del trabajo (pp. 97 - 124). Barcelona: Estudios y Ediciones IESE.

Studies

ZAMORA, J., VALOR SABATIER, J., RICART, J. E., INFANTE MIDDLETON, N., GUERRA CORTADA, T., PÉREZ TEJADA, J. L. (2022). Data-Driven Organizations: Estudio IESE-Penteo. Diagnóstico de la transformación digital en organizaciones impulsadas por los datos por. IESE. ZAMORA, J., VALOR SABATIER, J., RICART, J. E., INFANTE MIDDLETON, N., GUERRA CORTADA, T., PÉREZ TEJADA, J. L. (2022). Data-Driven Index: IESE-Penteo Study. Diagnosis of Digital Transformation in Data-Driven Organizations. IESE. VALOR SABATIER, J., ARROYO, C., LEE, K. (2018). The Media Landscape: From Showtime to Screen Time. IESE.

Cases

REICHE, S., VALOR SABATIER, J., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2024). From two to one: The IT integration of CaixaBank and Bankia (A). IESE, OIT-31-E. VALOR SABATIER, J., ZAMORA, J., LAGO, A., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2024). En la nube: migrar para salvaguardar las operaciones de TI de PrivatBank durante la guerra en Ucrania. IESE, OIT-49. VALOR SABATIER, J., ZAMORA, J., LAGO, A., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2024). A Path through the Cloud: Saving PrivatBank's IT Operations during the War in Ukraine. IESE, OIT-49-E.

Technical Notes

VALOR SABATIER, J. (2018). Basic Economic Models for the Digital Economy. IESE, SIN-55-E. VALOR SABATIER, J. (2018). Modelos económicos básicos para la economía digital. IESE, SIN-55. FARRÉ, M., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2012). Healthcare and Social Networks. IESE, SIN-53-E.

Outputs in other media

VALOR SABATIER, J. (2021). Nadie es inmune. LaVanguardia, Barcelona. ALEGRE, I., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2020). ¿Influye ser conservador o progresista a la hora de distinguir noticias falsas? The Conversation. VALOR SABATIER, J. (2019). ¿Se puede resucitar a un difunto? Expansión, Madrid.