RECENT ADVANCES IN BROADBAND INTEGRATED NETWORK OPERATIONS AND SERVICES MANAGEMENT

Varadharajan Sridhar is a professor in information management at the Management Development Institute (India) and is currently a visiting research fellow at Sasken Communication Technologies (Bangalore, India). He received his BE from the University of Madras (India), Post Graduate Diploma in industrial engineering from the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering (Mumbai, India), and PhD in MIS from the University of Iowa (USA). He had taught at Ohio University and American University in the US; University of Auckland in New Zealand, and at the Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow, India). Dr. Sridhar's primary research interests are in the area of telecommunication management and policy and global software development. He has published many research articles, business cases, and chapters in edited books in his area of research. Dr. Sridhar is a member of the Committee on Allocation and Pricing of Spectrum for Access Services set-up by the Indian Government. He was the recipient of the Nokia Visiting Fellowship awarded by the Nokia Research Foundation. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Information Management and is a member of ACM and AIS.