Deependra Moitra, Ph.D., is a management consultant, dedicated to helping companies transform their performance through strategic innovation. He has over 18 years of multifaceted experience in crafting business growth strategies, new business incubation, strategic innovation management, technology and R&D management, and global product development across high technology products as well as services sectors. He has extensively advised senior management teams at large global corporations as well as entrepreneurial technology ventures, and helped them improve near-term business performance and construct platforms for profitable growth. Dr. Moitra frequently speaks at major industry forums and international conferences, and serves on the advisory boards of numerous start-ups and not-for-profit institutions.
BACKGROUND
Prior to becoming management consultant, Dr. Moitra held senior management positions with Infosys Technologies and Lucent Technologies. At Infosys, as the General Manager for R&D, he was instrumental in shaping the company's nonlinear growth strategy and spearheaded a highly successful services innovation initiative, encompassing emerging technologies R&D, business technology consulting, and intellectual property commercialization. At Lucent, as a start-up team member and the general manager for its India R&D Centre, he played a key role in establishing a large, high performance software product R&D organization and led the centre to formally achieve the status of Bell Labs in a record time of 2 years. Earlier in his career, he held various positions with Siemens Communications Software and the Indian Space Research Organization.
Dr. Moitra received a B.Tech. degree with high honors from the University of Calicut and earned his Ph.D. from the Rotterdam School of Management. A recipient of numerous awards and honors, his leadership style and accomplishments have been profiled, among highly visible leaders, in an internationally acclaimed book, Leading with Wisdom, published in 2007 by Sage Publications and Greenleaf Publishing.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Dr. Moitra is a widely recognized authority on global innovation management and an acknowledged software industry expert. He is a frequent speaker at major industry forums and international conferences, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading international journals. He has many publications to his credit including the widely acclaimed book China and India: Opportunities and Threats for the Global Software Industry (Chandos Publications, 2007) that he co-authored. His extensive professional experience combined with real-world research provides compelling, insightful, integrative, and actionable perspectives. He is a sought after teacher to senior executives and a guest lecturer at several leading business schools.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE (REPRESENTATIVE)
Advised several Fortune 1000 companies (a telecom equipment major, a global top 5 enterprise software company, a construction equipment major, a world leader in wireless handsets manufacturing, and a pharmaceutical industry leader) with their global innovation strategy. The consulting engagements involved developing optimal architectures for global innovation and providing operational leadership for strategy implementation.
Assisted a global enterprise software product major with company-wide R&D effectiveness initiative aimed at defining pathways for enhanced innovation efficiency, R&D productivity, and business performance. The engagement involved performance and market analyses of the company's product lines, a systematic assessment of various R&D programs, and led to the construction of a business strategy aligned resource-balanced portfolio of R&D programs to drive profitable growth.
Helped a leading media and entertainment equipment vendor to transform its product portfolio and product development processes that led to many-fold improvement in product quality, variety, and speed-to-market, and allowed the company to achieve the number two position in the industry in terms of global market penetration. The work included re-designing the product innovation processes by building in customer co-creation and integrating horizontal specialization through strategic outsourcing.
Helped a large commercial vehicle manufacturer transform its business as well as product development processes to achieve profitable growth. The engagement involved developing an integrative business and operational strategy covering product development processes, customer management processes, supplier integration processes, and business planning processes as well as defining a resource-balanced, market-aligned product portfolio.