Systemic Flexibility and Business Agility / Flexible Systems Management (PDF)

Professor Sushil is Abdulaziz Alsagar Chair Professor (Professor of Strategic, Flexible Systems and Technology Management), and Chair, Strategic Management Group at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He has served as Visiting Professor and delivered seminars in many leading universities; some representative ones are University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, among others. He is an active researcher and supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations. He is having eighteen books to his credit in the areas of Flexibility, Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Technology Management. He has over 250 papers in various refereed journals and conferences. He has pioneered the area of 'Flexible Systems Management' and made original contributions to the field of knowledge in the form of interpretive approaches in management. He is the Founder Editor-in-chief of Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management and serving on the Editorial Boards of leading international journals. He is the Founder President of the professional body, 'Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management'. Currently he is serving as Independent Director on the Boards of RINL, HSCC, and River Engineering.

Gerhard Chroust is Professor Emeritus for Systems Engineering and Automation, Institute of System Sciences, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. From 1992 until 2007 he was Professor for 'Systems Engineering and Automation' at the Kepler University of Linz and Department Head of the Department (in 2004 transferred into an Institute) of Systems Engineering and Automation from 1992 until 2007. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IFSR Newsletter, Chairperson of the Editorial Board of the Book Series of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), and Editorial Board Member of several journals. He has written, co-authored and edited a dozen books