Soumitra Dutta
Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology and Founder and Academic Director of ELab at INSEAD.
Highlights
Soumitra Dutta is an authority on all aspects of innovation in the knowledge economy, with a refreshing global perspective. Throughout his distinguished career, he has focused on how to drive business innovation and growth through the right combination of innovative people and technology.
This is particularly relevant in the current crisis when innovation is the best answer for both thriving today and emerging stronger in a post-crisis world.Soumitra has co-written several important books on technology-enabled business innovation.
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His recent book, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom reveals how online social networking is transforming our personal lives, our organizations, and our behavior as consumers and citizens.
In Innovating at the Top, he distills proven ways that senior executives can improve innovation performance from interviews with the CEOs of nine highly-innovative international corporations.
Soumitra has also co-edited eight annual reports for the World Economic Forum on the impact of information technology on development and national competitiveness, the most authoritative and comprehensive assessments available.
He is one of the very few faculty members around the world and across all disciplines who has been invited to Davos for more than 10 years. He is amongst academics of the privileged "Davos Circle" group of participants, only two others have been invited to more meetings.
Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology and Founder and Academic Director of ELab at INSEAD, named the #1 international business school in the world by BusinessWeek.
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He is the former Dean of External Relations and Executive Education at INSEAD and had the responsibility of leading the largest executive education program portfolio in the world. He has advised the top management of major multi-nationals, leaders of major governments and has been showcased in major business and general news media.
Soumitra is a dynamic, charming and confident speaker with strong executive education experience.
Topic Areas
Online social networking. Soumitra is the co-author of Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom, which examines how online social networking is changing the way we interact with each other informally (in terms of identity), the inner dynamics of organizations (in terms of status), and our behavior as citizens and consumers (in terms of power). Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom has received rave reviews and has been picked up enthusiastically by the online community.
Innovation. Soumitra is also the co-author of Innovating at the Top, which offers proven ways to improve innovation performance distilled from interviews with CEOs at nine highly innovative international corporations—Bosch, Genentech, Infosys, Nokia, Research in Motion, SAP, 3M, Toyota, and Unilever. Based on the insights of senior executives who have successfully encouraged and supported innovation in their organizations, Soumitra offers audiences the take-aways from his book: 10 Key Drivers of Innovation.
Overcome the current economic crisis. Soumitra has co-edited eight annual reports for the World Economic Forum that are the most authoritative and comprehensive international assessments of the impact of ICT on the development process and the competitiveness of nations. The 2009 Report underlines that good education fundamentals and high levels of technological readiness and innovation are essential engines of growth needed to overcome the current economic crisis. Under the theme "Mobility in a Networked World", the Report places a particular focus on the importance of mobility and broadband technologies.
Credentials
- Former Dean of External Relations at INSEAD
- The Roland Berger Professor in Business and Technology
- Founder and Academic Director, eLab@INSEAD
- Visiting professor, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business; Solvay Business School (Brussels); Athens Laboratory for Business Administration
- Fellow, World Economic Forum
- Member of Advisory Board, Center for CIO Leadership, New York
- Adviser, Government of Qatar
Expertise and Presentation Areas
- Technology and Innovation Strategies
- CIO Leadership strategies
- Talent Management & Leadership Development
- Technology and competitiveness
- Off-shoring and Outsourcing Strategies (special focus on India and China)
- Knowledge Economy in Europe
Books
The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009: Mobility in a Networked World (2009) S. Dutta and I. Mia, co-authors.
Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking will Transform your Life, Work and World (2009) M. Fraser and S. Dutta, co-authors.
Innovating at the Top: How Global CEOs Drive Innovation for Growth and Profit”, Palgrave Macmillan (2009) R. Berger, S. Dutta, G. Samuels and T. Raffel, co-authors
The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe (2006) S. Dutta, A De Meyer, A. Jain and G. Richter, coauthors.
The Bright Stuff: How Innovative People and Technology can make the Old Economy New (2002) S. Dutta, A. De Meyer, S. Srivastava, co-authors.
Embracing the Net: Get Competitive (2001) S. Dutta and S. Srivastava, co-authors.
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