Professor Ts. Dr. Murali Raman

Professor Ts. Dr. Murali Raman is a Professor at the Management Faculty at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. Previously worked with Maybank Bhd (1994-1996) and Accenture Consulting (1997-2001), where he managed and led more than 9 different IT projects in Malaysia and Singapore, mainly in the area of IT and Systems integration.

He is currently the Post Graduate and Continuous Education Director at Asia Pacific University (APU) focusing on Executive Training and Consultancy. His niche training areas include among others:

• Design Thinking
• Colored Brain Communication and Emotional Drivers
• Digital Economy
• Crafting Digital Strategies
• Mindset change

His work in the area of Design Thinking has led to several international and local awards as outstanding educationist in the field of IT Management. Among the awards include the following:

• Gold Medallist Sri Lanka Investors Commission, Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lank for his project called Design Thinking Process for 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
• Gold Medallist for TELS Sri Lanka Investors Commission, Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lanka for another project The Elitez Learning System.
• Winner of the European Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Excellence Award, by ACPI, in Lisbon, Portugal for his teaching and research in the field of IT Management focusing on the use of Knowledge Management Systems in Support of Disaster Management.
• Gold Medallist at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2019 for a project called Gamified Teaching Strategies for the 21st Century.

He currently trains and consults with several leading companies in Malaysia.

He has also conducted training and consulting (on various topics pertaining to management, Innovation at the workplace, design thinking and ICT) in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, and in the US for organisations such as TM Innovative Leadership and Workplace Innovation, RHB Bank, Keppel Bank Singapore, TelBru Brunei, Tabung Amanah Islam Brunei (TAIB), Brunei e-Government Center, OUM International Malaysia- Program for Senior Government Officials, Government of India, Maybank IBBM Program, Australian Logistics Center for Supply Chain Systems, Australia, MAKPEM Ministry of Welfare, IPA Brunei, MILE Madinah.

Possibly the only Malaysian who is both a Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright fellow, Prof Murali's qualifications and experience are impeccable. His list of accolades, qualifications and experience would filled up many pages.

• Doctorate in Management Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University, California
• MSC in Human Resource Management (London School of Economics, UK)
• First-class honours degree in Bachelor of Business Administration, University Malaya
• MBA (Imperial College, London, UK)

• Gold Medallist Sri Lanka Investors Commission, Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lanka for his project called Design Thinking Process for 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
• Gold Medallist for TELS Sri Lanka Investors Commission, Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lanka for another project The Elitez Learning System.
• Winner of the European Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Excellence Award, by ACPI, in Lisbon, Portugal for his teaching and research in the field of IT Management focussing on use of Knowledge Management Systems in Support of Disaster Management.
• Gold Medallist at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2019 for a project called Gamified Teaching Strategies for the 21st Century.
• Special Mention in both the Star and News Straits Times, for an education project called Suara Pendidik where he trained teachers under the National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP), using Design Thinking for 21st Century Learning.
• The above project was also a nominee for the Anugerah AKRI, 2019.
• Two of his papers were published by Leadernomics, for his taught leadership on Design Thinking and its impact in cultivating learning and a growth mind-set.

As the Director of MMU Business School, over the last 3 years he has been playing a vital role as an educator in the field of Design Thinking serving corporate, public and in his capacity as a social worker. Examples of these contributions are:

• Receiving an award of mention by Malaysia Airlines Berhad for program planning and delivery of a Professional Certificate in Leadership & Management (training for 700 staff).
• Use of Design Thinking for a Social Innovation Project Gerak Gempur UPSR for SJK(T) Batu Arang, Selangor.
• Appointed as a member for the Technical Working Group (TWG) in preparing for the Ministry's 12th Malaysian Plan document preparation.
• In 2019 alone, trained more than 500 people in Corporate Malaysian in 4th IR and Design Thinking examples which are for the likes of the TM Group, UOB Bank Malaysia, MaGIC Malaysia, Government of Brunei and Government of Malaysia.
• Outstanding Academic Leadership Award in Malaysia 2016 EDUCOOP.
• World Innovation Award Seoul, Korea 2015.
• Augerah Pecipta Negara Gold Medal.
• Golden Globe Tiger Awards For Outstanding Academic Leadership.

Prof. Murali has published more than 100 papers in International Journals, conferences, and book Chapters and has written/edited several books in the area of Information Management in general.