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Prof. S. Krishna

S. Krishna is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and Co-Chair of the Consortium on Globally Distributed Work. Prof. Krishna has worked closely with the Indian Software Industry since its early years and has pioneered several research and academic programs in close collaboration with the Indian software industry. An executive MBA program designed to develop managerial and leadership skills in software industry pioneered by him termed PGSEM has been acclaimed as one the most successful academic-industry cooperative activities in India and rated amongst top 25 non-US programs by Business Week.

Dr.Krishna obtained Ph.D degrees in Computer Science (Software Engineering) and Theoretical Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was associated with the initial set up of the National Informatics Centre at New Delhi between 1977-84. He has been a consultant to the Indian Banks Association on implementing ATM networks, the National Judicial Pay Commission in Reorganising legal processes in Indian Courts and has led a team for World Bank sponsored design of an integrated information system for public health management for the state of Karnataka.

Over the last few years, Prof Krishna along with research collaborators in Europe and North America has studied Global Work Arrangements of the Indian Software Industry extensively with field work undertaken in several countries in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Some of his recent papers have been published in Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software and IT for Development. Two of his recent books (authored with collaborators) are Global IT Outsourcing: Software Development across borders (Cambridge University Press) and The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context ( Ashgate)