Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics Based Business Strategy; Creating Business Value

Dr. S Raghunath has been Professor of Strategy and the Chairperson for the Centre of Corporate Governance and Citizenship at IIM Bangalore. He specializes in digital business strategies and models. He has researched these topics, taught them to Post Graduate and Doctoral students and executives, and consulted with major Indian companies and multinational corporations. He has been invited to address several CIO forums organized by CII, IDC, Dataquest and CIO Online.

He teaches a course on Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Based Business strategy in the General Management programme for IT Executives.

Dr. Raghunath was a member of the Governing Council of the Cloud Computing and Innovation Council of India. He was a member of the Government’s Task Force for preparing Karnataka Cyber Security Vision.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1990-1991) where he engaged in research in strategy making in IT companies. He was also a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, France; HEC, Paris, Toulouse Business School, France University of Buckingham, UK; RMIT School of Business; Melbourne, Australia.

He also teaches in the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) an elective course on Digital Business Strategies and Models. He has published several papers, case studies and book chapter and has been quoted in publications such as Economic Times, Business Line and the Computer Today and he wrote a column on business strategy for Outlook Business. He was engaged in the study of strategy making in high-tech companies in USA such as Cypress Semiconductors Inc., Harris Semiconductors, Intel, Motorola, MIPS. He has conducted studies on Business Process Initiatives in American Express Insurance and Investment Division, San Rafael, California.

Dr. Raghunath is a member of the Board of Directors of Canara bank, Vijaya Bank, KIOCL, K Two Technologies, Spire Technologies, and National Venture Capital Fund. He is a Registered Consultant with the Office of Project Services, UNDP, New York. Dr. Raghunath was the Cycle Director of the International Masters Programme for Practising Managers (IMPM) in 2010-2011 and has coached many CXOs of Indian companies as well as MNCs.

Dr. Raghunath is the South Asia Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business.

U Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Sciences and Chairperson of Data Centre and Analytics Lab (DCAL) at IIM Bangalore and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay. Dr Dinesh Kumar introduced Business Analytics elective course in 2008 to the PGP students at IIM Bangalore and started one of the first certificate programmes in Business Analytics in India in 2010.

Dr Dinesh Kumar has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. Prior to joining IIM Bangalore, Dr Dinesh Kumar has worked at several reputed Institutes across the world including Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; University of Exeter, UK; University of Toronto, Canada; Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Australian National University, Australia and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Dr Dinesh Kumar has published more than 70 research articles in leading academic journals. Thirty eight of his case studies on Business Analytics based on Indian and multinational organizations such as Aavin Milk Dairy, Apollo Hospitals, Bigbasket, Bollywood, Flipkart.com, Hewlett and Packard, ISKCON, Jayalaxmi Agro Tech, Larsen & Toubro, Manipal Hospitals, Mission Hospital, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Premier League, Reliance Retail, Shubham Housing Finance Limited, VMWare have been published at the Harvard Business Publishing’s case portal. His case studies are used by more than 220 Institutions across 61 countries across the world. He has authored 3 books, his recent book is titled, “Business Analytics – The Science of Data Driven Decision Making”, published by Wiley in 2017 which was an Amazon Best Seller.

Dr Dinesh Kumar has carried out predictive and prescriptive analytics consulting projects for organizations such as The Boston Consulting Group (India) Private Limited, Cavinkare, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Army, Qatar Airways, Mission Hospital, Manipal Hospitals, Scalene Works, Wipro Limited, UNIBIC and the World Health Organization etc.

Dr Dinesh Kumar has conducted training program on Analytics for several companies’ companies such as Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Ashok Leyland, Bank of America, Blue Ocean Market Intelligence, Cisco, Fidelity, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Honey Well, Infosys, ITC Info Tech, Ocwen financial Services and so on. Dr Dinesh Kumar conducts corporate training programme in Analytics and trained more than 1000 professionals in the field of analytics.

He is the founding president of the Analytics Society of India (ASI). Dr Dinesh Kumar was awarded the Best Young Teacher Award by the Association of Indian Management Institutions in 2003. He is listed as one of the top 10 analytics academics in India by the analytics India magazine. He is the governing council member of the Karnataka Government’s Centre of excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence set up in Collaboration with NASSCOM.

Programme Fee
INR 1,14,000/- Residential and INR 99,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.

Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 21-Oct-24 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 1,02,600/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 89,100/-(+ Applicable GST)

Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.

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