M.S. Krishnan
Management Professor and Author
Speaking at:
Sept. 25, Irving, TX
Dr. M. S. Krishnan ("Krishnan") is Mary and Mike Hallman e-Business Fellow, Area Chairman and Professor of Business Information Technology at the University of Michigan Business School. Dr. Krishnan is also a Co-Director of the Center for Global Resource Leverage: India at the Michigan Business School.
Dr. Krishnan received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He was awarded the ICIS Best Dissertation Prize for his Doctoral Thesis on "Cost and Quality Considerations in Software Product Management". His research interest includes:
- Corporate IT strategy
- Business value of IT investments
- management of distributed business processes
- software engineering economics
- metrics and measures for quality
- productivity and customer satisfaction for products in software and information technology industries.
In January 2000, American Society for Quality (ASQ) selected him as one of the 21 voices of quality for the twenty first century. His research articles have appeared in several journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research Information Technology and People, Strategic Management Journal, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Decision Support Systems, Harvard Business Review, Information Week, Sloan Management Review, Optimize and Communications of the ACM.
Dr. Krishnan article "The role of team factors in software cost and quality" was awarded the 1999 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence. He serves on the editorial board of reputed academic journals including Management Science and Information Systems Research. Dr. Krishnan has consulted with Ford Motor Company, NCR, HIP, IBM, Bellsouth, TVS group and Ramco Systems.
C.K. Prahalad
Management Expert, Consultant, and Best-selling Author
Speaking At:
June 25, Chicago, IL
Aug. 14, San Francisco, CA
Coimbatore Krishnao -- CK -- Prahalad was born in the town of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. He studied physics at the University of Madras (now Chenai). He worked as a manager in a branch of the Union Carbide battery company, before continuing his education in the United States, and earning a PhD from Harvard. He has taught in India and America, eventually joining the faculty of the University of Michigan's Business School, where he holds the Harvey C Fruehauf chair of Business Administration.
At Ann Arbor Prahalad met Gary Hamel, then a young international business student. Their collaboration ultimately resulted in the bestselling, Competing for the Future (1994). In his recent book (written with Venkat Ramaswamy), The Future of Competition (2004), Prahalad argues that companies have not made enough use of the opportunities provided by globalisation. There is an inability to realise that not only have the rules of the game changed but the role of the players has been transformed too. The 'customer' is a more powerful and pro-active figure. Customers are no longer abstractions that have to be satisfied. Thanks to the internet, they are agents creating and participating in transactions. The concept of value has also changed. It is not inherent in products or services. It can't be instilled by producers or providers. It has to be co-created with consumers. They build this by experiencing it. The only way companies can compete successfully is through building new strategic capital.
Alongside this work, Prahalad has been wrestling with the perplexingly complex and political issue of poverty. This led him to write The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2004) in which he identifies the world's poor (the 'bottom of the pyramid') as a potential untapped market for companies, worth anything up to $13 trillion a year. "The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time" he explains. A market at the bottom of the pyramid could be co-created by multi-national and domestic industry, non-governmental organisations and, most importantly, the poor themselves. They would then have choice over their lives and the products they use. He points to Hindustan Lever's success in marketing soap-powder and detergents in smaller, cheaper units. This created prosperity downstream through new distribution mechanisms. Too often poor people are patronised, Prahalad wants them to have real power in the marketplace.
EVENT MODERATOR
Bob Evans
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TechWeb
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ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANT
Vivek Luthra
Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services
Ramco Systems
Vivek works as Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services for Ramco Systems based out of Ramco New Jersey’s office in U.S.A. In this role he has P&L responsibilities for all services vertical offerings and platform based solutions offerings from Ramco Systems.
He has 13+ years of experience in Business and IT Consulting, and IT & Business Process Outsourcing focusing on Financial and Telecom services verticals working with some of the leading global companies in these verticals. He has worked in middle and senior management roles in Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Alliances, Account Management and Operations in US, Europe and APAC markets.
Prior to Ramco Systems, Vivek has worked with Infosys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schlumberger and 2 technology start-ups.
Vivek is an engineer and an MBA by profession |
