Creating Business Agility

Acknowledgments

First, I acknowledge and thank my wife, Kavita, who seeded an idea of writing a book and kept energizing me with this noble thought. She was my buddy who always listened to my thoughts and gave me her honest and critical feedback on all aspects of this book. I thank my professor and co-author, Dr. Rod Heisterberg, who nurtured my ideas and moderated my plans in the most articulate and structured manner and finally wrote this book together.

I have to thank M. R. Rangaswami, founder of Sandhill group, who agreed to write the Foreword for this book. He brings enormous values to the book with his solid experience in the field of emerging technologies and its relevance to the business. I thank Jnan dash who has been advisors to many organizations such as Sonata Software, Solix Technologies, and now MongoDB, after spending long career with IBM and Oracle as senior executive. I appreciate his insights in the book that would be very relevant. I appreciate and thank Jeetu Patel, CTO and General Manger of EMC and now Syncplicity (subsidiary of EMC), for his thoughts and insights that surely enhances the value of this book. I appreciate Ramasubramanian Vaidyanathaswamy, Senior Practice Director, Business Intelligence and Analytics at Wipro, for his invaluable contribution on Big Data processing and analytics. I thank my old-time friend Kalpesh Desai, who worked as COO at 3i Infotech and successfully founded crossroad, which got acquired by 3i Infotech, and now he established ...