Disruptive Technologies

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Industry’s Readiness

Sandeep Kejriwal

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Disruptive Technology (or, Innovation)

A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.

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Example of Disruptive Innovation

“We’re living through a golden age of behavioral research. It’s amazing how much we can figure out about how people think now.”

Eric SiegelChairman, Predictive Analytics World

Alok KumarManaging Director, Swiss Re Shared Services India Pvt. Ltd.

• Leading company's captive centre in Bangalore comprising of nearly 500 employees working across reinsurance value chain

• joined Swiss Re in 2001 in the US• Also worked in Switzerland and South Korea for

many years• Moved to Bangalore in 2009 to set-up and

expand on risk and analytics teams

Qualifications• Civil Engineer (Bachelors from IIT Roorkee)• Masters from Texas Tech University, USA

Anantha RadhakrishnanVP and Global Head (Enterprise Services), Infosys BPO

• Member of the Board at Portland Group, Infosys Czech and Infosys Poland

• Also leads the Business Transformation, Technology Services, Quality and Transition functions

• Has spent many years at the Infosys group across consulting, IT services and Business Process Management (BPM),

Qualifications• Postgraduate from IIM, Lucknow• Honors graduate in mechanical engineering from

NIT, Trichy

Sandeep SharmaManaging Director (South Asia), Nice Systems

• 20 years of extensive leadership experience• Spent a decade at Oracle in senior business and

sales leadership roles in India / A-PAC• Led Oracle’s Communications business to a

leading position in the Indian sub-continent• Prior to Oracle, managed the business for

MetaSolv (acquired by Oracle) in India / SEA / Middle East.

• Started his career in the US with Alcatel –eventually handled management roles within its Optical Networking BU

Qualifications• Engg from Visvesvaraya National Institute of

Technology• MBA from Duke University - The Fuqua School

of Business