Shrikant's Notes: Book Review: McKinsey's Marvin Bower

Thursday 25 August, 2011

Book Review: McKinsey's Marvin Bower

This book is a biography of Marvin Bower, who is often referred to as
father of management consulting. The book weaves together many
anecdotes to illustrate vision and thought process of Marvin Bower. I
found three case studies viz. Royal Dutch Shell (1956), PwC (1979) and
HBS (1979) quite useful. The book provides quite a few lessons in
consulting hence I would recommend it to every budding consultant.

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My Talks

“Where Do You Want to Go in SOA Adoption Journey?”, Interop 2009, Mumbai, India, October 7-9, 2009
"Enterprise Search for Academic Excellence", Tech@Edu, New Delhi, India, June 13-14, 2009
“Adopting Service-oriented Architecture using Open Source Software”, National Conference on Open Source Software (NCOSS-09), Mumbai, India, May 25-26 2009
“Where Do You Want to Go in SOA Adoption Journey?”, Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, Bangalore, India, February 25-27, 2008

My Publications

Shrikant Mulik, “Software Selection using Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Analysis Spreadsheet”, 3rd International Conference on Global Interdependence and Decision Sciences, December 28-30, 2009, Hyderabad, India, McMillan Publishers, ISBN 023-032-852-0, pp. 262-268
Shrikant Mulik, “Using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for connecting Corporate Functions and Shared Services with Business Divisions in a large Enterprise”, 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009), IEEE Proceedings, ISBN 978-1-4244-5336-8, December 7-11, 2009, Biopolis, Singapore, pp.1103-1108
Shrikant Mulik, “Searching for information within your organization”, BenefIT, December 2009, pp. 50-51
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, “An Approach for Selecting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Product”, IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009), September 21-25, 2009, Bangalore, India
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, "Design-Time Selection of Web Services for Composite Applications", The Architecture Journal # 21, September 2009, pp 5
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, Kavindra Sharma, “Service-enabling Enterprise Legacy Applications with Assurance”, 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2009), 6-10 July, Los Angeles, USA
Shrikant Mulik, Chaitali Kantank, Manish Godse, Mona Sudarshan, “Knowledge Management using Joomla”, National Conference on Open Source Software, (NCOSS-09), 25-26 May 2009, Mumbai, India
Shrikant Mulik, Sushil Ajgaonkar, Harsh Jetly, Neha Pandey, Sagar Yerunkar,Vinod Kakkanat, “Multi-Channel Asynchronous Request Dispatcher Framework (M-CARDiF)”, National Conference on Open Source Software, (NCOSS-09), May 25-26, 2009, Mumbai, India
Manish Godse, Vinod Pathari, Shrikant Mulik, Rajendra Sonar, "Comparing AHP-ANP Models for Web Service Selection in Global Enterprise Applications", In: Karuna Jain, Rahul Patil (eds.), 2nd International Conference on Decision Sciences in Global Enterprise Management (ISDSI 2009), January 3-5, 2009, Mumbai, India, Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 023-063-725-6, pp. 299-311
Manish Godse, Rajendra Sonar, Shrikant Mulik, "Web Service Selection based on Analytical Network Process Approach", The 3rd IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (APSCC 2008), IEEE Proceedings, December 9-12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan, pp.1103-1108
Manish Godse, Rajendra Sonar, Shrikant Mulik, "The Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach for Prioritizing Features in Selection of Web Services", 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2008), 12-14 November, 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Shrikant Mulik, Sushil Ajgaonkar, Kavindra Sharma, “Where do you want to go in SOA Adoption Journey”, IEEE IT Professional magazine, May/June 2008, pp. 36-39
Shrikant Mulik, “SOA Maturity Models”, Dataquest magazine, June 15, 2007, pp. 82,84