Case studiesField visitsDiscussionsPracticalSimulationsWork integrated learningExperimentsGuided learningExperiential learningGroup assignmentsIndividual assignmentsQuizzesCritical analysis of news and articlesCase writingWorkshopsPaper / article / research writingWhitepaper writingResearch / teaching assistantshipsThesisIndustry projects & reports driven by studentsInternshipsSurvey and analysis of market dataMarket researchCompetitive events between institutionsParticipating in standards / products / service creationIndustry and academic collaboration at faculty levelGamesSocial experiments Email me:…… Continue reading Ways of learning in modern education – Part 1
Author: Neil Harwani
Interested in movies, music, history, computer science, software, engineering and technology
The other perspective – Social Media – Part 1
Have you realized below points when you don’t find people interested in your social media posts and activities? Its not always lack of interest or dislike that causes someone to be un-interested in your posts. Is your post showing up on their activity feed or wall?Are your interests and likes similar?Does the other person have…… Continue reading The other perspective – Social Media – Part 1
Information Technology culture across company categories – Part 1
Products: High on collaborationCross department deliverablesFocus on specific areas like products, goals and suchThey typically build their own strategyVarious sub-cultures like entrepreneurial, open source, hybrid and proprietary may exist within thisControlled offerings for customersInnovation & creativity is valued highlyR&D is important hereFlexibility in terms of what employees can do beyond the organizationFlat or semi-structured hierarchies…… Continue reading Information Technology culture across company categories – Part 1
PhD/FPM/EFPM, PGDM, MBA, MSc, MTech – “The Crystal Maze” demystified – Part 1
Here is my attempt to demystify – “The Crystal Maze” of Indian Master’s degree / PGDM / EPGDM / MBA / Executive MBA & PhD / FPM / EFPM. “The Crystal Maze” was a TV series as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Maze – the programme focused on teams of contestants, a mixed group of men and women,…… Continue reading PhD/FPM/EFPM, PGDM, MBA, MSc, MTech – “The Crystal Maze” demystified – Part 1
Word Cloud of my twenty years
I started work by programming few websites around the year 2000 approximately. Since then on and off depending on my role or work I have been programming, doing business analysis, building solutions and recently in last few years have been working in education & customer success. Below is a word cloud which summarizes my experience…… Continue reading Word Cloud of my twenty years
DevOps in Networked & Technology infused world
My original article below, co-authored with Prof. Nityesh Bhatt. An abridged & modified version of this was published in a leading magazine. Advice to youngsters, be your own publishing house – you have Amazon, LinkedIn, your own blog & website, multiple other good platforms, peer reviewed open access & top journals, don’t depend on others…… Continue reading DevOps in Networked & Technology infused world
Reasons to adopt AGILE & DevOps
DevOps: Developers need environments to be readied, recycled, shared, rebuilt in short period of time with least amount of lost time, control and additional jumpsFused teams of developers, system admins where responsibilities are more or less completed via multi-tasking & multi-skilling by each member AGILE: Early feedback for product owners, developers & testersContinuous feedback /…… Continue reading Reasons to adopt AGILE & DevOps
Four waves of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
While teaching students in two different courses (AIML & “Data Science and Analysis”), there was a requirement to categorize historical AI & ML along with it’s interface with Data Science. To start: AI is the superset, ML is a subset of AI, Neural Networks (Deep Learning) are specialized subsets of ML. Below is a categorization…… Continue reading Four waves of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Traits of a good Information Technology company – Part 1
Promote merit and people with soft and hard skills both not just technology or soft skills aloneGet them to attend trainings from HBR, MIT Sloan & various business schools from across the world regularlySetup a culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration & team workPlan & design all projects / initiatives in advance with spirit not lip…… Continue reading Traits of a good Information Technology company – Part 1
What all has changed post COVID-19?
In the last one year, many things have changed for us. Here is a list of areas in business & life that have changed as observed by me & students who were attending the class for subject of BigData in MBA. 1. Digital payments now have wide acceptance 2. Work & study from home is…… Continue reading What all has changed post COVID-19?