Business Model Innovation in Software Product Industry

Kul Bhushan C. Saxena is an academic and a consultant on business process innovation, business model innovation, digital transformation and higher education management. As an academic, he has been Dean at Fortune Institute of International Business, New Delhi; and Professor at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, and Indian Institutes of Management at Bangalore and Ahmedabad for more than 22 years, and at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Hong Kong Polytechnic University for another 14 years. Prior to this he was in IT management positions in private and public sector organizations for more than a decade. Dr. Saxena has been a consultant to various organizations in India (e.g. for NALCO, Bhilai Steel Plant, Bokaro Steel Plant, Durgapur Steel Plant, Power Grid Corporation, Indian Army Ordnance Core, IBM Daksh, etc.), Hong Kong and Netherlands. Dr. Saxena has 3 co-authored (this is the 4th) books and more than 120 papers published in various conference proceedings, national and international journals. Dr. Saxena has also been a member of the NATO's Advanced Summer School on Decision Support Systems in Lucca, Italy; and has won, among others, the "Distinguished Achievement Award" of the Indian Space Research Organization.Swanand Deodhar is pursuing is his PhD from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He research interest includes collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, and open source software communities. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Symbiosis International University, Pune and is a Fellow of Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. Mikko Ruohonen is a professor of business & information systems at the University of Tampere, Finland. Dr. Ruohonen has worked in the field of information strategy, digitalization and organizational development since 1984. He has published over 130 articles, reports and columns, four textbooks, large research reports. He has served Technical Committee 3 (Education) of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) since 1990's. He has also served as member of the advisory boards for Finnish companies. In addition he served as the President of Executive Board for Association of Information Systems (AIS) Scandinavian Chapter 2006-2007. IFIP granted him IFIP Silver Core Award year 2007. Silver Core is conferred on those who have served IFIP as General Assembly (GA) members, committee officers, members of IFIP Congress Program Committees, and editors of proceedings of IFIP conferences.