Experience – An overview

Prof Ranjan Das, Professor of Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, has a total of 50 years of experience comprising:

• 20 years in industry during which Prof Das had held such senior positions as General Manager of an MNC and Managing Director of a Joint Sector Company in India.

• 30 years in teaching, training, research and consulting as a Professor of Strategic Management at IIM Calcutta.

• 16 years [beginning January 2008 and overlapping with the assignment with IIM Calcutta] as an Academic and Social Entrepreneur engaged in setting up India’s FIRST and only of its kind 100 % LIVE DIGITAL Academy named The Strategy Academy Centre for Advanced Studies [TSACAS].

Experience – Teaching, Research and Writing and consulting

Prof Das’s current teaching, research, writing, training, and consulting focus areas are:

• Industry and Competitive Analysis

• Industry Evolution

• Business Model Innovation

• Turnaround Strategy

• Competitive and Growth Strategy

• Corporate Restructuring and M&A

• Strategic Risk Management

• Strategy Execution

• Platform business model and strategy

• Contemporary Strategic Issues and Managerial Choices

• Organizational Transformation and Management of Change

• Strategic Leadership

• Management of Family Business– Resolving Growth, Professionalization and Succession Planning challenges

Publications

Prof Das had written 6 books and many articles and case studies during his 20 years of corporate career and 30 years of teaching at IIM Calcutta. The six books are:

1. Managing Diversification – The General Management Process [Macmillan]

2. Strategic Management of Services [Oxford]

3. Crafting the Strategy [McGrawHill]

4. Entry Strategies of MNCs – Co-authored [Oxford]

5. Corporate Restructuring for Enhancing Shareholder Value– Co-authored [McGraw Hill]

6. Complex Issues Management – Co-authored [McGrawHill]

Experience – Independent Director

Prof Das had been an independent director of several companies in India.

Experience – Consultancy and Capability Building

Prof Das advises many companies in India and overseas in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Some of the companies with whom Prof Das was associated in the past – either as an adviser or as a facilitator [providing assistance in building capabilities of people] are:

Aditya Birla Group, AKK Group Bangladesh, Akzo Nobel Singapore, Aquapharm, Arvind Group, Asian Paints, Bharat Petroleum, Birlasoft, Birla White, CEAT , Emami, Famycare, Frost and Sullivan, GAIL, Harrisons Malayalam, Hindalco, Hindustan Petroleum [HPCL], Indian Oil , ITC, Jade Global USA and India, Knowledge Group Kuala Lumpur, Krishna International [Telecom] Dubai, Larsen and Toubro, L&T Infotech, Linc Pen, Mahindra Finance, Max Life Insurance, Mitsubishi, Nestle, NIIT Ltd, NIIT Technologies, NTPC, Premier Irrigation, Rahim Afrooz Bangladesh, Rallis India, Ranbaxy, Raymond, RIECO, Steel Authority of India, Star TV, Sudarshan Chemicals, Supreme Industries, Tata Metalliks, Tata Motors, TATA STEEL, Tata Steel Processing, Tega Industries, Times of India, TIL, Thermax, Ultratech, Welspun etc.

Experience – As an Academic and Social Entrepreneur

One of the principal missions of Prof Ranjan Das is to assist individuals and organizations in achieving SUCCESS in whatever fields they are in or shall be in. As a part of this mission, that aims to reach out to people and organizations who are denied opportunities [or somehow failed] to excel, Prof Das has been working for many years on his core priority of developing a real- time, low cost, universally accessible and highly convenient to use technology enabled and two way interactive capability building cum transformation process [including development of the underlying delivery platform] that combines the positive features of time tested traditional brick and mortar model with location-independent features of e-learning model but eliminates their downsides.

Backed by his long years of specific experience in this field, Prof Das has developed a novel knowledge delivery and transformation process - called Smart Learning and Transformation Solution [SLTS] - that retains the best practices of traditional brick and mortar delivery as well as those of pre-recorded e-learning system and at the same time eliminates all non-value adding investments and expenses related to both. Prof Das believes that such a convergence of two existing systems of knowledge delivery, which also helps in transforming the traits and attitudes of learners, is now a reality and shall soon be reaching the point of inflection that will have the potential to disrupt progressively the traditional brick and mortar delivery as well as much hyped 100% pre-recorded e-learning method of education delivery.