M.Sc., EDBA

Professor and Area Chairperson of Information Technology and eBusiness at International Management Institute, New Delhi. His teaching expertise includes Information Technology based Decision Making, Systems Analysis and Design, Electronic Business, Information Systems Management, Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems. In addition to teaching, Ramesh is an active researcher in the area of eBusiness and Information Systems Management. He has also designed and developed number of software for various industry applications. Ramesh is a United Nations fellow on Information Systems and International Operations and a SAP Certified Consultant. Has over twenty six years of teaching, research and consulting experience in the area of Information Technology and E-Business; Worked with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT), New Delhi, Indian Institute of Management(IIM), Lucknow and Statesman New Delhi; Did number of research and consulting assignments for Government and Private Organisations in the areas of Information Systems and International Trade. Authored Fifteen Books and number of research papers. Consultant to number of International and Indian companies in the area of Information and E-Business. Was member of the Core Group on Electronic Commerce set-up by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.

BOOKS

1) "PC Tools for Managers", co-authored. The book is published by M/S Global Business Press, New Delhi,1998.

2) "SAARC - Information Handbook 1998", published by SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry in collaboration with FICCI, 1999.

3) "SAARC - Information Handbook 1996-97", published by SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Dhaka, 1998.

4) "The Indian Businessman's Guide to South America", co-authored. The book is published by M/s Global Business Press, New Delhi.

5) "The Indian Businessman's Guide to CIS", co-authored. The book is published by M/s Global Business Press, New Delhi.

6) "India's Major Trading Partners - Profiles" - co-authored. The book is printed by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, 1995.

7) “SAARC Information Handbook” - co-authored. The book is published by SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka.

8) “India-ASEAN Trade Cooperation and Investment Opportunities” - Co-authored. The book is published by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, 1996.

9) “On-Line Databases in International Trade” – Edited. Book is published by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, 1996.

10) "The Indian Businessman's Guide to America", co-authored. The book is published by M/s Global Business Press, New Delhi, 1997

11) "The Indian Businessman's Guide to Canada", co-authored. The book is published by M/s Global Business Press, New Delhi, 1997.

12) "The Indian Businessman's Guide to Mexico", co-authored. The book is published by M/s Global Business Press, New Delhi, 1997.

13) “Principles of Management and Information Systems", edited. The book is published by IGNOU, 2006.

14) “Management Information Systems 7/e”, Co-authored. The book is published by Tata McGrawHill, 2006.

15) “Information Technology for Management”, The book is published by Tata McGrawHill, 2009.

16) “Management Information Systems 9/e”, Co-authored. The book is published by Tata McGrawHill, 2010.

CASE STUDIES

1) “Making of e-Gurucool.com”, Global Business Review, Jan-June, 2004.

2) CRM for building closer relationship with customers, “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 526-530,2007

3) Drishtee.com connecting India village by village, “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 531-539, 2007

4) Leveraging Internet for education, “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 540-548, 2007

5) Indian Distribution Ltd., “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 549-551, 2007

6) Busy and Accounting Software, “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 552-557, 2007

7) Role of Information Technology in the Processed Food Industry, “Management Information Systems, 7/e”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 558-563, 2007

8) IT for Success, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 2-4, 2009

9) IT Innovations, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 70-72, 2009

10) IT for Decision Making, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 174-176, 2009

11) Enterprise Systems, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 268-270, 2009

12) Intelligent Decisions, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 352-354, 2009

13) Managing IT, “Information Technology for Management”, Tata McGrawhill, pp 438-440, 2009

14) The Spark Batteries Ltd., “Management Information Systems, 9/e”, Tata McGrawHill, pp 48-49, 2010

15) Crystal International: IT Service Management, “Management Information Systems, 9/e”, Tata McGrawHill, pp 207-208, 2010

16) Seconds & Powerful, “Management Information Systems, 9/e”, Tata McGrawHill, pp 319-321, 2010

17) Automating Resident Welfare Activities, “Management Information Systems, 9/e”, Tata McGrawHill, pp 652, 2010.

RESEARCH STUDIES

1) Indo?Soviet Trade: Unit Value Realisation and Terms of trade? sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, 1992.

2) A comparative Assessment of India's Export Performance of Manufactured Products in relation to other developing countries. Project was sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, 1993.

3) Software Exports ? World Scenario & India's prospects.

4) Study on setting up an Export Development Centre in SIDO - sponsored by Ministry of Industries, Government of India, 1994.

5) Study on Identification of Products for Exports - Indian Aluminium Company.

6) Project on India-ASEAN trade cooperation and Investment opportunities - sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, 1996.

7) “Global Electronic Commerce – Constraints for India” – sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, 1999.

8) “Management of Cyber Cafés in Delhi” – sponsored by International Management Institute, 2004

9) “Usage and Perception of Knowledge Economy on Small & Medium Enterprises in India” – sponsored by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India, 2011.

RESEARCH and SEMINAR PAPERS

1) Presented a paper “Role of Computers In Social Science Research", at the Symposium "Mathematical Techniques in Social Sciences" organised by Shia Degree College, Lucknow in September, 1987.

2) Exports in the Eighties, Foreign Trade Bulletin Vol.21 No.4, October 1990, jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

3) Export Growth in the Eighties, Foreign Trade Bulletin, Vol.21 No.5, November 1990, jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

4) The Rupee?Rouble Rate, Foreign Trade Review Vol.25 No.4, Jan?March, 1991, jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

5) External trade of China, "China's External Trade since the Reforms", Commonwealth Publishers, 1991.

6) Sino?Indian Trade, "China's External Trade since the Reforms", Commonwealth Publishers, 1991.

7) The last leg of rupee trade, The Financial Express, 11 February, 1992, jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

8) Strategy for Software Exports, The Financial Express, 27 August, 1992 jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

9) Software Exports ? World Scenario and India's Prospects, Foreign Trade Review, July?Sept. 1992, Jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and Shri L.D. Mago.

10) The Prices of Indo?Soviet Trade, Margin, April?June, 1992, jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy and L.D. Mago.

11) "EDI ? Paperless Trading", The Economic Times, December 16, 1992 jointly with Prof. Bibek Debroy.

12) "Exports of important manufactured products from India and competition faced from developing countries", submitted for publication in Foreign Trade Review jointly with Shri L.D. Mago.

13) "Brazil ? An Economic Profile", published in Indo?Latin American File.

14) "Constructing A Magic Square", published in Target.

15) Information Technology Industry - Problems and Prospects.

16) Agriculture under the Uruguay Round - Possible Impact of Reduction in Domestic Support and Export Subsidies, published in a book "Trade in Agriculture - The Uruguay Round & After".

17) "India-ASEAN trade cooperation and Investment opportunities".

18) “India-ASEAN Economic Relations: Problems & Prospects”, published in International Industries Annual, 1995.

19) EDI applications in International Trade.

20) “Use of On-line Databases in Trade Promotion” - published in a book on On-line Databases in International Trade Promotion.

21) “Internet: The Information Highway” - published in a book on On-line Databases in International Trade Promotion.

23) "Managing towards a Virtual Corporation".

24) "Electronic Data Interchange and International Trade".

25) Presented a paper on "HRIS Framework" in a Top Management Forum on "Developing Human Resource as Strategic Partner of Business" organised by the SCOPE Centre for Development and All India Management Association on August 1, 1998.

26) Presented a paper on "Electronic Commerce - Constraints for India" in a workshop on "Global Electronic Commerce" organised by Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies on May 13, 1999.

27) Presented a paper on “Virtual Learning Environment” in a workshop organised by IMI, New Delhi on April 29, 2000.

28) Presented a paper on “Internet Applications in Open Learning Systems” in a workshop organised by NEPA, New Delhi on May 2, 2000.

29) Presented a paper on “Security and Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce” in a workshop organised for the senior executives by Delhi Management Association on May 5, 2000.

30) Presented a paper on “Electronic Commerce – Emerging Scenario” in a workshop organised by Consultancy Development Centre, New Delhi on July 14, 2000

31) “Forecast of Indian Readymade Garments using ARIMA Model”, Global Business Review, Jan-June, 2002.

32) “Policy Paper on IT-Enable Services” written for Ministry of Commerce as a member of the core group on E-commerce set-up by the Ministry.

33) Developed a case study on “Making of an Education Portal”, accepted in the International EU-Asia Academic Conference & Practice Workshop on E-enabling SMEs for Global competitiveness held at IIFT during 8-10 October, 2003.

34) Developed a case study on “Making of e-Gurucool.com”, Global Business Review, Jan-June, 2004.

35) Developed a case study on “Role of Information Technology in processed food industry in India”. Case will be used only for teaching purpose.

36) “Perception study of Cyber Café Users”, Global Business Review, Jan-Jun, 2006 Vol 7. No. 1.

37) “RFID and Supply Chain Management”, an exclusive article published in Telecom Live, June 2006.

38) “Implementing ERP Systems in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in India – Challenges & Prospects” published by Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2007, pp.136-144, ISBN: 81-8424-182-8

39) Presented a paper entitled, “Implementing ERP Systems in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in India – Challenges & Prospects”, at International Conference on Information Systems, Technology & Management (ICISTM-2007), jointly organized by Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and University of Florida, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 12-13, 2007.

40) Content Editor for the Course on “Principles of Management and Information Systems”, IGNOU.

41) Case Study Analysis, “Collaborating online to reduce costs”, Financial Express, April 21, 2007.

42) Written two workbooks on “Introduction to Information Technology” for ITC-IBD.

43) Presented a paper entitled, “An Empirical Research Study to Analyze the Role of Cyber Cafés on Internet Penetration”, at International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-2007), organized by PromoteResearch.com at Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12, 2007.

44) “Readiness for Online Learning in Business Schools in India”, accepted for the 5^th International Conference International Conference of “Managing Knowledge, Technology and Development in the Era of Information Revolution’, Jointly organised by the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and Griffith Asia Institute/Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith, 29-31 October 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Paper is also published as part of referred conference proceedings, pp.16-27, ISBN (Print) 0-9551771-3-8 and ISBN (ebook) 0-9551771-2-X (CD)

45) “Readiness for Online Learning in Business Schools in India”, Co-authored, published in a book “World Sustainable Development Outlook 2007 – Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development in the 21^st Century”, published by Greenleaf Publishing, UK, October, 2007, hardback, ISBN 978-1-906093-02-0

PROJECT REPORTS

1) A corporate level Development of Management Information System for a Merchant Exporter.

2) Marketing of Computer Software in India and Abroad.

3) Export Potential of Select Electronic Component.

4) Survey of IT Industry & its Export Competitiveness.

5) India's Software Exports.

6) Packaged Software Exports: Key to success in International Software Market.

7) Measurement of Satisfaction of Internet Users : An Indian Perspective

SOFTWARE PACKAGES DESIGNED & DEVELOPED

1) Software for Aligned Pre?Shipment Export Documents

2) India's Foreign Trade (Imports & Exports) Database

3) Software for Procurement of Raw Material & Management

4) Software for Foreign Trade Library

5) Personnel Information System

6) Periodical Acquisition & Control System

7) Software for Management of Rural Development Program

8) Software for analysis of Export Statistics to help Export Promotion Decisions

9) Information Retrieval System for Newspaper Library

10) Software Package for Financial Accounting

11) Software System for Budgetary Planning & Control

12) Advertisement Billing

13) Inventory Control System

14) Share Analysis System

Participated & Presented research papers in number of National and International Conferences. Some of the Conferences that I participated:

International Conferences

• Presented a paper entitled, “An Empirical Research Study to Analyze the Role of Cyber Cafés on Internet Penetration”, at International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-2007), organized by PromoteResearch.com at Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12, 2007.
• SAP Asia Pacific Japan is organizing 1st Annual Academic Conference in Bangkok from November 9 -10, 2008
• ERP Simulation Train-the-Trainer certification workshop at Montreal, Canada from June 6-11, 2009
• Business Objects Master Train-the-Trainer Workshop at Singapore from September 7 – 11, 2009
• SAP Asia Pacific Japan is organizing 2nd Annual Academic Conference in Xian, China from November 18-20, 2009
• Organized an international conference “Euro-India ICT Event” at International Management Institute on December 10-11, 2009 in collaboration with European Commission.
• SAP India International Academic Conference in IMI, New Delhi from July 16-17, 2010
• SAP Business By Design enablement workshop will be held at Munich, Germany between December 8 – 12, 2010
• SAP Asia Pacific Japan is organizing 3rd annual Academic Conference in Singapore from June 2-10, 2011

Electronic Business, ERP, Business Intelligence