Faculty
Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh
Associate Professor
Alliance School of Business
Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh is alumnus of NITT and IITM. She has interdisciplinary domain expertise from engineering design, new product development, healthcare research to technology management. She has more than a decade of industry experience with Royal Enfield, GM, Volvo and Caterpillar. She is a trained six-sigma blackbelt and accelerated by sis-sigma council as a trainer. She has designed the curriculum for developed the curriculum for Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education for the rural MBA programs. Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh is certified technical writer for Clinical Evaluation Report – medical devices. She coined the term ‘Concept Exploration Process’ as part of her M.S. (by Research) program at IITM to facilitate new product success. She worked closely with hospitals to deploy patient-engagement (patient centric care) as an outcome of her doctoral research at IITM.
Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh nurtures technology-enabled entrepreneurship skill development to students and provide FDP to develop institute level entrepreneurship ecosystem. She had worked on multiple government projects and implementations like RAMP, CSR projects. She has accumulated 11 years of experience in teaching and 10 years of experience in industry.
- Ananthavalli R and Sastha, Impact of Robotics Artificial Intelligence and Automation (RAIA) in upskilling and employment, Industry 4.0 at IISC, conference proceedings full paper on Springer Publication, Nov 2024
- Ananthavalli and Raman, Channelising Technology Interventions and Adoption in the Context of Frugal Innovation for Rural Entrepreneurs of India, 16th Biennial Conference, March 2025 [paper no. Bice16124], abstract publication as conference proceedings.
- Ananthavalli R. and L. Prakash Sai, ‘Ideas to Concepts through Concept Exploration Process,’ ICoRD’23, IISC, Bangalore, India. Springer publication, 2023
- Ananthavalli R. and L. Prakash Sai, ‘Patient Preparedness and Enablers for Decision-Making of Dental Implant Adoption’, European Health Management Association, Breda, Netherlands, 2015.
- Ananthavalli R. and L. Prakash Sai, ‘A shared decision-making model for dental implant treatment’ , International Shared Decision Making Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2015.
- Ananthavalli R. and L. Prakash Sai, ‘Decision Making Process in Choice of Dental Implants’, Second International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2014.
- Ananthavalli R. and L. Prakash Sai, ‘Technology Management Issues in Indian Medical Devices Industry: A Morphological Analysis’, Driving the Economy through innovation and Entrepreneurship – Emerging Agenda for Technology Management, Springer, New Delhi, India, pp 89-100, 2012.
Awards / Fellowships:
- Indian Government Scholarship Research Assistance (2009 to 2016).
- JASSO Research Fellowship, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan (Mar, 2016).
- Fellowship awarded, IBM Global Sustainability Summer School, Brunei (July, 2011).
Certification:
- 2022 Machine Learning with Business Applications, IIMB
- 2020-2021 Medical Devices – Clinical Evaluation Technical Writing (CER-MEDDEV 2.7/1.), Turacoz
- 2008 Six-Sigma Black Belt, Caterpillar Inc.,
Industry Experience:
- Caterpillar Eng. Design Centre (6 Sigma – Black belt)
Designation: Six Sigma Black Belt 1
Managed and trained cross-functional team for business quality improvement
in terms of identifying new business opportunities, team deliverables, and business
excellence. DMAIC process steps were followed to address business problems,
employee empowerment, and process excellence for the captive unit. - Volvo Ltd. (Global Truck Chassis – Sweden, US, India)
Designation: Assistant Project Manager, Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics Division
Project leader to execute design changes on chassis, fifth wheel and
tractor-trailer models for ‘Truck for India’ project. Product & process innovation was demonstrated for cost-saving measures regarding new product development. Worked in Sweden and USA to provide design services for Volvo and Mach trucks. - General Motors Tech. Centre (Mentoring Training)
Designation: Design Engineer (Engine)
Engineering design support for USA (GD&T) technical center. Accountable for
mentoring technical training and organizing knowledge sharing sessions within-group and cross-functional team. - Royal Enfield (a unit of Eicher Ltd.)
Designation: Assistant Manager - Projects (Engine)
Designed and developed transistorized control ignition to enable
electric start in Enfield Bullets by involving multiple stakeholders through the cross-functional team. Participated in the development of new-generation engines.
Deployed FMEA for the product development process. Worked on ISO 9000 as a management representative for the 14000 certification process of the product development department.
