This fictitious case study examines the multi-year strategic transformation of NovaTech Solutions, a global IT services enterprise, as it repositions itself from a traditional labor-arbitrage model to an AI-augmented and AI-native software engineering organization. Confronted with margin compression, automation-driven competition, and client expectations for exponential productivity gains, NovaTech’s leadership initiated a comprehensive enterprise transformation centered on AI-assisted coding, AI-enabled DevOps, and advanced AIOps infrastructure. Over a three-year horizon, the company restructured operating models, redesigned performance metrics, recalibrated talent strategy, and invested heavily in AI tooling and cloud infrastructure. The transformation created measurable productivity improvements and margin recovery, yet introduced complex cultural, technical, and governance challenges. Individual contributors grappled with identity shifts and skill displacement anxieties, while managers struggled to redefine productivity metrics and performance systems. Integration challenges across legacy systems and toolchains proved more demanding than anticipated. DevOps pipelines required architectural reengineering, and AIOps deployment introduced model drift, alert fatigue, and operational risk considerations. This case provides a comprehensive examination of the organizational, technical, financial, and strategic implications of enterprise-scale AI adoption in IT services.
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FinAxis Technologies: A Case about Migrating from Monolithic ERP to Microservices in a Regulated Fintech Environment
Note: This is a hypothetical case study for classroom discussion in the course Management Information Systems. The objective is to teach students learn about cloud computing ERP and challenges in emerging models of ERP adoption in enterprise applications. This is not a real case study.
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5352 Researchers from India are in the list of Top 2% of researchers across the world, which has 223,152 listed researchers. This is a percentage of 2.4% from the total of the top 2% list. Kudos to all Indians in this list of 5352 researchers who are contributing very heavily to the growth of the academic reputation of Indian academia and research.
Details in Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), “September 2023 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, Mendeley Data.
Link to dataset https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
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Indian Business and Management researchers in the Top 2% List
India has traditionally seen the business and management education sector to be teaching focused. However, given the importance accorded to rankings (both national and international), this is rapidly changing. Today, the NIRF Ranking, from the Ministry of Education, gives a weightage of 30% to research and practice, that accounts for both publications and their citations (as a proxy for Impact). Similarly the QS ranking has high importance accordes to both research publications and citations. Probably these rankings have created some interventions in an ecosystem that has been traditionally more oriented towards excellence in teaching. Continue reading “Indian Business and Management researchers in the Top 2% List”
2021 Academic Journal Guide by CABS UK
The new Chartered Association of Business Schools (UK) has released the Academic Journal Guide for 2021. This year, a lot of new journals have been added recently and many journals have seen quite a noticeable upgrade and downgrades. Sharing the list. The green coloured are the most revered journals. The blues are those at 3 and are still very competitive and established. The yellow coloured journals are the ones at level 2. The others at grey are at level 1.
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Citation
Malik, N., Tripathi, S.N., Kar, A.K. and Gupta, S. (2021), “Impact of artificial intelligence on employees working in industry 4.0 led organizations”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-03-2021-0173
Influence of political leaders on sustainable development goals – insights from twitter
Grover, P., Kar, A.K., Gupta, S. and Modgil, S. (2021), “Influence of political leaders on sustainable development goals – insights from twitter”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-07-2020-0304
Exploring engagement among mobile app developers – Insights from mining big data
Purpose
The Web 3.0 has been hugely enabled by smartphones and new generation mobile applications. With the growing adoption of smartphones, the use of mobile applications has grown exponentially and so has the development of mobile applications. This study is an attempt to understand the issues and challenges faced in the mobile applications domain using discussions made on Twitter based on mining of user generated content.
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IFIP WG8.6 Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, 2020, article titled “#Government – Understanding Dissemination, Transparency, Participation, Collaboration and Engagement on Twitter for Citizens“, in International Federation of Information Processing WG 8.6 Conference – Re-Imagining Diffusion and Adoption of IT, in Indian Institute of Management Trichy, India. Continue reading “IFIP WG8.6 Best Paper Award”
Indian Researchers who are in Top 2% in their fields – Stanford Study
In recent times, a Stanford University study had published the names of researchers who are in the top 2% in their field. In this study, researchers across discipline have been classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. We have further segregated the authors based on their affiliation to Indian Universities. The complete study is downloadable from Plos Biology Continue reading “Indian Researchers who are in Top 2% in their fields – Stanford Study”


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