Faculty
Dr. Uma Lakshmi Kalakada
Associate Professor
Alliance Ascent College
Dr. Uma Lakshmi Kalakada obtained her Ph.D. in Information Systems from Alliance University. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology and Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional in ‘Developing Applications with C++ Using Microsoft Foundation Library’. During her entrepreneurial venture in software training, she conducted training programs in C, C++, Win32 API, VC++ and Java for premier software companies in India.
Dr. Uma has over a decade of experience in teaching Information Systems and General Management at postgraduate level as a full-time and visiting faculty. In recent times, she has been providing Consulting services in MIS & Operations for a transaction management company based in California.
A firm believer in continuous learning, Dr. Uma’s recent updates include a certification course in ‘Design Thinking: From Insights to Viability’ from Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education, and ‘Advanced Certificate Program in Academic Research and Data Analysis’ from IIM Kozhikode. She has been a reviewer in Elsevier’s ABDC ‘A’ category journal in marketing domain and another ABDC, ‘C’ category journal in Knowledge Management domain. Her areas of research interest include Customer Agility, Customer Knowledge Management, Retail, Organizational Resources and Dynamic Capabilities, and Higher Education.
Journals:
- “Organization Resources and Capabilities for Knowledge Strategy in High Velocity Environments: The Perspective of Business Strategy Alignment”, published in International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT & Management, 6(12), 2016.
- “Designing Training Interventions in App-Entrepreneurship for Undergraduate Engineers: A Study in Indian Context”, published in International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Development Studies, 4(2), 2016.
- “Corporate Role in Women Empowerment: Second Career Internship Programme (SCIP) from TATA”, published in International Journal of Teaching and Cases, Inderscience Publications, Switzerland, 5(1), DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2014.063753, 2014.
Books Edited:
- “Higher Education Transformation in India. Changing contexts & Institutional Responses”, published by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Indian Academy Degree College, Bengaluru, ISBN: 978-81-920859-9-9, 2014.
Book Chapters:
- “Workforce Diversity at Accenture: A Key to Corporate Success”, In Resource book on Case Studies in Business Management: A Global Perspective, (eds) Bindu Gupta et al., Ane Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, ISBN: 978-93-8212-754-3, 2013.
Textbook:
- “Human Resource Acquisition and Development”, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-81-272-5054-6, 2009.
Conference Proceedings:
- “Literature Review on Customer Knowledge Management (CKM)”, Proceedings of 04th ICMTS 2020,7-8 Dec 2020, IIM-Kozhikode, Peer-reviewed, ISBN: 978-93-5419-748-2.
- “Customer Knowledge Management via Website: How Far are Brick and Mortar Retails from Online Retails”, IIM INDORE - NASMEI Summer Marketing Information Systems Conference, 26 -28 July 2019, SMART MARKETING IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Book of Abstracts, 2019, by Emerald Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-78635-428-0.
- “Customer Profiling on the Internet: Privacy Concerns and Policies”, (ed) G. Muruganantham, Aruna Publishers, Chennai. in Marketing Dynamics, Conference proceedings of National Conference on Recent Trends in Marketing opportunities and Challenges, 20 Feb 2013, Department of Management Studies, NIT, Trichy, ISBN: 978- 93- 8179-093-9.
- “Implementation Issues of Aadhaar: Human Resource Information System for India”,
in Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Agenda for Technology Management, Conference proceedings of International Conference on Technology Management (ICTM-2012), 18 -20 July 2012, Dept of Management Studies, IISc, Bengaluru and Springer India, ISBN 978-81-322-0745-0.
Conferences:
- “Antecedents of Customer Agility from the Perspective of Customer Knowledge Management Capability: The Context of Retail Sector”. 6th International conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, 20 -22 Dec 2018, Analytics Society of India, at IISc, Bengaluru.
- “Customer Knowledge Management Capability in Emerging Markets: Analysis of Website Knowledge Infrastructure of Global Retailers in Indian Context”, 26 – 28 April 2018, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences & ISB, Hyderabad.
- “Application Software Entrepreneurship: Designing Training Interventions for Undergraduate Engineers”. ICIER-IIMB International Conference on Entrepreneurship Education and Training, 29 -31 Jan 2015, ICIER and IIM, Bengaluru.
- “Employability Recommender System for Learning Environments in Management Education using Data Mining”. First International Conference on Business Intelligence and Analytics, 11 - 13 Dec 2013, DCAL, IIM, Bengaluru.
- “Extended Stakeholder Responsibility, as a Public Policy for e-Waste Management in India”. Seventh Annual International Conference on Public Policy and Management, 16 – 18, Aug 2012, Centre for Public Policy, IIM, Bengaluru.
