My talk at INTEROP

INTEROP is one of the world’s top most conferences in the field of information technology. INTEROP is being held in 5 cities of the world – Las Vegas , London , New York , Tokyo and Mumbai. I was an invited speaker at INTEROP Mumbai  To see the list of speakers click on: http://www.interop.in/speaker-list

 To see the speaker profiles click on: http://www.interop.in/speaker_profile.aspx

The INTEROP Conference  went off very well and my session was packed to capacity. In fact they had to have a huge projection screen to ensure that the proceedings reach the whole audience. I spoke about IT Innovations in Education mainly focusing on 3 issues – The International Student Collaboration Project which I have been driving for the past 3 years here at my alma mater NMIMS , the BITS Pilani (my second alma mater) award winning BITS Connect Project of which I am a part of and I also spoke about my thoughts on digital libraries. I have enclosed a photo of my session which you might find interesting. 

Regards

Dr.Nilay Yajnik

Professor and Chairman – Information Systems Area

Interesting article on what stifles innovation

Nice article by Harvard Prof Rosabeth Moss Kanter on what stifles innovation in an organisation.It might be worth reflecting for your own organisations too.

http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2013/01/nine-rules-for-stifling-innova.html

My interview with Rajiv Jayaraman , Founder CEO of Knolskape

I have been a Mentor to a very innovative start up company Knolskape (www.knolskape.com) and based on my experience of Mentoring this company , I developed a course "Technology Ventures" for my MBA IInd year students in this term at my Institute , the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies  in Mumbai , India.

Knolskape is founded by  Rajiv Jayaraman who is a few batches junior to me at BITS Pilani.I interviewed Rajiv as a part of my Technology Ventures course and you can watch my interview with him through the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ono5HXwZDzU

I am on the NASSCOM Jury!

NASSCOM is India's top most IT Industry association. NASSCOM has started a very interesting initiative to encourage "Made in India" software products.This program called IP4BIZ (Indian Products For Business) is a part of the NASSCOM Emerge forum.
 
I am sure you would all be very happy to know that I have been invited by NASSCOM to be a member of the Jury for this program. My role will also be to help mentor and nurture such start ups.I am really excited about this since I firmly believe that the next phase of growth of the Indian IT industry will be driven by the Indian IT SME sector who will have innovative products to showcase.I will also use the learning and experience which I will be getting by being on this NASSCOM forum to develop a new course which I will be teaching next term at NMIMS called "Technology Ventures".
 
See the link http://www.nasscom.in/ip4biz and you can find details of the program and also the names and profiles of all the Jury members. 
 

Harvard Gazette

Harvard Gazette

Another round of MBA bashing?

Is this another round of MBA bashing? 
Read about this from the Poets and Quants site http://poetsandquants.com/2011/10/26/occupy-wall-street-spills-onto-the-b-school-campus/

 Are  MBA's being wrongly targeted? Do comment.

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Nilay

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I conducted a seminar for the Faculty of my Institute on my Harvard experience

I conducted a seminar for the Faculty of my Institute last week on my experience and learnings at the Harvard Business School.My Faculty colleagues were very appreciative of my presentation.It feels good to be appreciated by your peers!

Back from Harvard

I just came back from the Harvard Business School in Boston after participating in a global colloquium. I also went to the  MIT Sloan School and met  and interacted with several Professors with whom I am working with.Both visits were great experiences.

150 years of MIT

MIT Boston USA celebrates 150 years this year.Some of the most profound inventions in computer science , like the magnetic core memory (I still remember my Professor at BITS Pilani Prof AP Mathur's lectures on the evolution of computers) ,the RSA algorithim and Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics (I remember referring to  Prof Norbert Wiener's book in our BITS Pilani  Library way back in 1978) were MIT's creations.Ken Olson (Digital Equipment Corp) , Du Pont and Arthur D.Little were all MIT alumni who started some of the world's greatest companies.The entire Route 128 highway was the capital of IT long before Silicon Valley came into being - and it was MIT which made this possible.

One of the most exciting innovations done by MIT over the past decade is The MIT Open Courseware.I refer to this   extensively in my own teaching and research here at NMIMS.

My first Alma Mater BITS Pilani had a deep and intense collaboration with MIT.In fact MIT helped set up the very unique and highly flexible education system which BITS Pilani is so famous for. 

I have enclosed below links to  some very interesting write ups on MIT's 150 years which I came across today.Happy reading and reflecting.

Thank you MIT for such profound innovations!Thank you BITS Pilani for your collaboration with MIT! And thank you NMIMS for giving me the academic freedom to innovate in my teaching and research  using , amongst other things , MIT Sloan's Open Courseware.

Regards

Dr.Nilay Yajnik

Professor and Chairman - Information Systems Area

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies , Mumbai

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 Bill Gates on "Why MIT Matters"   http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/Gates/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/celebrating-150-years-of-mit.html

Prof Richard Feynman

A great video on TED.
Its a talk by Prof Leonard Susskind of Stanford titled "My friend Richard Feynman". Prof Susskind gives his memories of Prof Feynman.One thing which particularly struck me was Prof Feynman's view that if a person can't explain something in a simple way , then that person just does not understand the subject!

I guess this is probably the essence of a good Teacher.No matter how complicated the subject is , a good Teacher makes it very simple!

See the video on http://www.ted.com/talks/leonard_susskind_my_friend_richard_feynman.html

MBA's in IT

Is the Indian IT industry ready to accept MBA's?What type of roles do MBA's get in the IT industry?Why is it that even though India is so well known globally for IT ,students at business schools in India opt for Marketing and Finance specializations in large numbers and not for IT?

I would be glad to get comments on the above issue.
Regards
Dr.Nilay Yajnik , Mumbai , India