Prem Kamble is a Computer Professional with MBA from IIM Calcutta and B.Tech. from IIT Bombay. He has passed Advanced Management course called "Energo Cybernetic Strategy” with flying colors from Germany. He has also attended self-development programs like Est, Forum, Advanced Course, SELP (Self Expression & Leadership Program), etc. organized by Landmark Education Foundation, USA (earlier Centers Network) which have helped him to develop a broader outlook and a different way of thinking.

He has been heading IT function for over 25 years. During his career mostly as a CIO and Software Delivery Professional, he has been a keen student of IT Management, Change Management, particularly the people and psychological issues of IT transformation. Here he shares his rich experience and learning with Top Professionals like you.

As a CIO he has very closely interacted with people and lived with them during the difficult transition period of automation. He, therefore, knows their fears, discomforts, anxieties and frustrations as they go through the implementations. He also knows what exactly they think they need to know of this technology, and what they should actually know.

He has worked both as Software Delivery head in SEI Level 5 companies and as Head of IT (CIO) in manufacturing companies. As Software Delivery Head in SEI Level 5 company, he created records of

    Delivering all projects on time

    Highest Repeat Orders

    Highest Resource Utilization

As Head of IT in companies like Essar, Sutherland, Pidilite, Modi Rubber, etc. he has been extremely successful in developing and implementing computerized systems in the toughest of situations. He has expertise right from high-level IT Strategies and Management of IT-Driven-Change to down-to-earth software delivery.

He started his career as an analyst/ programmer and in less than five years was heading the IT function for a group of companies. He has major contribution in introducing computers for business applications in reputed companies. His areas of interest are business orientation and human orientation in Information Technology, study of the psychology of evolution from industrial era to information age, etc.

With a right mix of People, Process and Technology (PPT) expertise, he specializes in Business Process Automation focused on business objectives and people. Having managed IT on behalf of both IT user companies and SEI CMM Level 5 software manufacturing companies, he has expertise right from high level IT Strategies, Change Management, Strategies for IT implementations, upto down to earth system architecture and software delivery. With his close study of the businesses and people, he brings the insight to develop business solutions that work for businesses and people.

He has published articles on InfoTech management in the country's leading magazines. Most of the articles display an 'out-of-the-box' thinking and a knack to see what is not so obvious. He has also written on an objective analysis of God and Religion. Though these two areas of IT Management and Religion may seem to be poles apart, Prem believes that they are actually very closely related - both are a study into the human psychology of change. 

Skills & Specialities:

   Business and IT Strategy

   Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management

   Enterprise Application Development and Package Implementation

   Senior Management Training on IT Awareness and Change Management

   Creating a Change culture/ Adapting to IT Driven Change

   IT Software Dept Operations Best Practice

   Business Process Management

   Business and IT Alignment

   Team Motivation and Team Performance Optimization

   ERP Product and Process Mapping, Process Re-engineering

   ERP Facilitation, Implementation and Optimization

   Contract Finalization

Services

   IT and Management Consulting, ERP Implementation

   Top Management Training and Coaching in IT Driven Change Management