Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Dr. Kaushik Sahu's Profile @XIMB [Period: 1992-2005]

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Kaushik Sahu
Professor; Operations Management & Decision Sciences Area;
Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar - 751 013 (Orissa) I N D I A
[Phone: 2300231 (res); Email: kaushik@ximb.ac.in]

Education:
Ph.D.(Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst), 1991;
M.Tech [Industry Oriented] (REC, Rourkela), 1986;
B.Sc(Engg) (UCE, Burla), 1984

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Dr Kaushik Sahu has been working at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India since 1992. He started his career as a faculty in the College of Engineering and Technology, OUAT, Bhubaneswar in 1986 and has since then put in several years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Sahu went abroad in 1988 to take up doctoral studies with a major in Mechanical Engineering Design and a minor in Manufacturing.

He has published papers in International Journals and Proceedings and has also co-authored a chapter in a book on Advances in Feature Based Manufacturing. He was awarded the best paper award in the area of AI, Expert Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems at the 1990 International Computers in Engineering Conference organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Boston, USA. He is currently working in the area of Design for Supply Chains which is an extension of his earlier interests in the areas of Computer Aided Engineering, Knowledge-Based Systems in Design and Manufacturing, Design Automation, Manufacturing Automation Management and Total Quality Management. [Click here for Dr Sahu's Area of Interest]

Dr. Sahu offers courses to the PGP, ExPGP and MDP participants. He teaches ‘Production and Operations Management’, ‘Total Quality Management’, ‘Supply Chain Management’, and ‘Computer Integrated Manufacturing’. He is also guiding projects in ‘Modern Manufacturing Management Systems’ and ‘Business Process Reengineering’. He prefers offering web-enhanced courses.

He is the Chief Coordinator of the COMPUTER AIDED PRODUCT AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY meant for fostering concurrent product and process development initiatives. He is also working along with his associates in establishing a CUSTOMER SYNCHRONIZED MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING CELL for providing an action-based training platform to the various small and medium enterprises belonging to this region. His long-term interests are in establishing a Manufacturing Management Center at XIM. [Click here to see some of his activities since 1996].
kaushik@ximb.ac.in, last updated 6th August 2002

Thursday, July 07, 2005

POSCO & The Poor Little Rich State

POSCO & The Poor Little Rich State
[MRD to HRD - Which Option?]

The ongoing tussle regarding POSCO needs to be settled properly by developing a robust MoU through proper stakeholder participation. Otherwise,
Mineral Resource Discrimination will lead to Human Resource Discrimination.

However, with a robust MoU in place,
Mineral Resource Development can lead to Human Resource Development.

There are evidences where the state has not been able to protect the stakeholder interest after the investors have moved in. Mainly because the MoUs (if not well formulated) are open to interpretation and the investors try their level best to push their own hidden agenda.
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[Note: The idea of a "poor little rich state" came from this article (Indian State Digs In Over Iron (11 May 2005): ) published by The Wall Street Journal on 11 May 2005]. Excerpts from the article are also available at "Surprises of Outsourcing by William Krehm"