In the beginning ...

Reviews, views, and comments on valuation of IT investments, insourcing and outsourcing of software development projects, new product development, and strategic use of information technology resources in networked world.

Interesting Links ...

Dozens of colleges — including MIT — are embracing student blogs on their web sites.

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree

Reviews, views, ...

new world economy

Peter F. Drucker says
“Furthermore, most multinationals are not big. Rather, they are mostly small- to medium-sized enterprises.

State of MBA education

An Academic, PhilipGreenspun, recently wrote this in his blog:

“When universities created business schools in the 20th Century traditional academics decried the collapse of standards.

Changing face of entertainment industry?

Have a look at doonesbury (from 21st Feb to 26th Feb). Shape of things to come?

Is the MBA responsible for moral turpitude at the top?

Interesting opinion in the economist

Business schools are not responsible for unethical behaviour of their old students.

“The dubious claim that business schools are responsible for the moral fai

Google’s scholarly pursuits

I wonder why Google took so much time to come up with this kind of service. Read more about it at google’s blog.

What others say ...

Comment on R-log reloaded by AJ

Hope to see you re-start blogging soon! :)

Comment on Unmaad’04: The Journey Begins… by Kiran Jonnalagadda

I will be out of Bangalore for the entire period. *sigh* Guess I’ll have to wait till next year, or till the next event.

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by RS

You are welcome. It would be interesting to see how the whole thing works out. Indian companies are very stingy when it comes to implementing something that does not have cash flows in short term.

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by Conversations with Dina

Turning Ideas into Action (2) – Corporate Blogging
Some neat rap on corporate blogging …

Comment on Getting Indian corporates interested in Intranet and Internet Weblogs by Dina

Rajeev – thanks for the share – these are so useful – will incorporate them in the proposal. I loved your after-thoughts too … on meeting customer needs and on ‘usability’ of software.

Papers, articles,...

Sharma, R., and Thakur, M., "TATA Group: The Benign Hunter", The European Case Clearing House, Aditya Birla India Center, London Business School, 2008.
Sharma, R., and Krishna, S., Process maturity model for geographically dispersed software sustenance operations , IFIP WG 8.2/9.5 Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization., Portland, Oregon, 2007.
Sharma, R., and Krishna, S., “Structuring Coordination and Communication in Global Software Work”, First International Conference on Management of Globally Distributed Work; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, 2005.
Sharma, R., and Krishna, S., “Structuring Coordination and Communication in Global Software Work: A Case Study”, IFIP ISGLOB03 Athens, Greece, 2003.
Sharma, R., and Krishna, S., “Influence of Geographic Dispersion on Control and Coordination Approaches for Management of Software Development Projects”, IRMA International Conference, 2003.