Set up in 1974 as an interdisciplinary program, the Department of Management Sciences (DoMS) at IIT Kanpur was one of the first in the country to leverage the analytical education of engineers in the training of management professionals. The program subsequently evolved as a full-fledged department in 1988. Under the aegis of IIT Kanpur, known for its vibrant academic culture, the DoMS has become one of the well regarded departments of industrial engineering and management sciences in India.

The department currently has 28 faculty members with PhDs from reputed universities within and outside India, having interests in diverse fields such as quantitative and statistical decision modeling, operations and supply management, manufacturing systems, finance, marketing, economics, analytics, infrastructure, IT, Innovation, Intellectual Property Management and knowledge management. In keeping with the overall academic ethos of IIT Kanpur, teaching and research are pursued with passion and dedication. Faculty members are also engaged in a diverse set of activities including industry consultancy, management development programs and public sector projects. Some senior faculty members from this department have gone on to leadership roles in several Indian universities, or gained other recognitions: Director of NITIE, Director of IIM Lucknow, Director of IIIT Bangalore, Vice Chancellor of UPTU, and President of the Operations Research Society of India.

The department encourages active collaboration with industry as well as other academic institutions. The department receives several faculty applications every year from candidates interested in its research oriented environment. The aim of the department is to continue to excel in its research and training programs, promoting both technical and managerial skills as well as higher ethics and values.

The curriculum at the department comprises state-of-the-art techniques to plan, design, implement and manage integrated systems of people, material, capital, information and technology. The subjects taught provide a well-rounded coverage of the methods to manage and improve productivity, customer satisfaction and profitability of industrial, information and infrastructural (service) systems. In today's competitive era these methods have rapidly become relevant for engineers in all disciplines. Consequently, fresh engineering graduates as well as practicing professionals in fields ranging from computer science to aerospace engineering and architecture to electronics engineering regularly enroll in DoMS postgraduate programs.

The department currently offers Ph.D., M.Tech. and M.B.A. programs in Management Sciences. The Ph.D. program is widely regarded as one of the best programs in management research in India. Candidates with master's degrees from diverse academic backgrounds go through a rigorous selection process to gain admission to the Ph.D. program. Research scholars undergo courses in management disciplines such as Quantitative and Statistical Decision Modeling, Operations and Supply Management, Manufacturing Systems, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Innovation, Intellectual Property Management, Quality Models, Service Science & Management, E-Governance etc. Doctoral students from DoMS have found faculty positions at reputed universities such as University of Florida, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT Jabalpur and IIM Calcutta.

The M.Tech. program is the earliest program offered by the department. It provides a perfect blend of coursework in industrial engineering and management sciences. Admission is selective, a high GATE score being a prerequisite. Students take a year of course work followed by a year-long dissertation on a thesis topic. The intervening summer internships are used for practical project work in industries. Several alumni of the M.Tech. program have done our department proud in both the corporate world and academia with careers in reputed companies such as HSBC Analytics, Citibank, Symphony, GENPACT, IBM, Oracle, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Reliance, Texas A&M University and IIMs.

The MBA program was started in 2001, keeping in mind the growing need for managers with a strong technical background. Admission is through the Common Admission Test (CAT) followed by personal interview and group discussion. The syllabus includes several core courses in the first year that provide a broad foundation in management and include a strong practical component, with industrial projects incorporated in the courses. In the second year, students have the flexibility to choose among several electives depending on their individual interests and career goals. Conscious effort is made to keep the course content relevant to the Indian scenario. The case study method is used extensively to encourage participatory learning. The program has a mandatory two month summer internship component. Specialization offered in MBA includes sectorial areas of Service and Manufacturing and functional areas of Operations, Systems, Marketing, and Finance. Recent graduates of the MBA program have been placed in reputed Indian and multinational companies such as GENPACT, Accenture, ICICI Bank, ABN AMRO, Ashok Leyland, ACC, Citibank, Honda, LG, Maruti Udyog, Siemens, and TCS.

In order to be able to offer state-of-the-art academic programs, the department seeks to collaborate with reputed Asian, European and US universities. This will enable the department to globalize its academic research and teaching paradigm. At present the department has collaborations with RPI, USA, and METEC Defence University College (Ethiopia).

Our Vision

To excel in both industrial and management education and research to have a long lasting impact on management theory and practices in academia as well as in industry.

Core Competence

Aside from teaching, the faculty are engaged in wide research areas which include Operations Research, Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, Flexible and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Engineering, Organization Sciences, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Small Business Management, Total Quality Management, Manufacturing Strategy, Management of Technology , Strategic Management, Knowledge Management, Marketing and Consumer Behavior, e-Commerce, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation, Infrastructure Finance and Policy, Intellectual Property Rights.

Facilities

The department is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for computational support. The System Optimization laboratory provides computational support both for teaching and for research. It includes connected Pentiums and Workstations to form a local area network, and provide access to the computing facilities of the institute and Internet.

To support its various academic programs the department already has a separate dedicated academic building, and it would strive and maintain the full utilization of its 10 class rooms/seminar rooms/MDP class rooms, library, faculty lounge, 30 faculty rooms, rooms for PhD. students and computer labs.

• The Diffusion of Social Media and Knowledge Management - Towards an Integrative Typology, 3rd International OPAALS Conference, 22nd - 23rd March, 2010, Radisson Aracaju, Brazil, CD Publication - Paper 6, Zeller F., Chatterjee J., Steinicke I., Brauer M., Lapteva O., (Selected for publication in Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics & Telecom Engineering LNICST)

• Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge and Learning : Exploring Socio-Technical Concepts and Adoption, 3rd International OPAALS Conference, 22nd - 23rd March, 2010, Radisson Aracaju, Brazil, CD Publication - Paper 7, Amritesh and Chatterjee J. (Selected for publication in Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics & Telecom Engineering, LNICST)

• "Success factors for Implementing ERP: A Conceptual Model", Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME 2010), China, April 2010; S. Saini, S. Nigam and Misra S. C.

• Srivastava K., Shukla A. & Sharma N. K. (2010). Online flow experiences: The role of need for cognition, self-efficacy, and sensation seeking tendency. International Journal of Business Insight and Transformation, 3 (2), 93-100.

• Srivastava K., Shukla A. k., Sharma N. K. (2010). Online flow experiences: The role of need for cognition, self-efficacy, and sensation seeking tendency. International Journal of Business Insight and Transformation, 3 (2), 93-100.

• Gupta B. Sharma, Sharma N. K., & Ganesh C. (2009). The influence of organisational cultural values, reward, time, self-esteem and job security on knowledge sharing intentions among managers. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2 (2), 125-143.

• Phani B.V. & Haritha Saranga, 'Determinants of Operational Efficiencies in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry', International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009

• From Idea to Business - Finnish Model for Creating a University-based Innovation, 9th International Entrepreneurship Forum, University of Essex, Paper No.48, CVD Publication, 16th to 18th September, 2009,Conrad Istanbul, Hammalinen M., Itkonen M., Chatterjee J.

• Socio-Technical Innovation and the Role of Conversation in a Digital Ecosystem, IEEE DEST 2009, (Selected as best paper in the Ecosystem Social Science Category), 31st May to 3rd June, 2009, Proceedings CD, Part 3-June3, D. Pattanaik and Chatterjee J.

• Khan A., Sharma N. K. & Dixit S. (2008). Cognitive load and task condition in event- and time-based prospective memory: An experimental investigation. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 122 (5), 517-531.

• Phani B.V. , Chinmoy Ghosh & John Harding,'Does Liberalization Reduce Agency Costs? Evidence from the Indian Banking Sector', Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 32, Issue 3, March 2008

• Gyan Prakash, Kripa Shanker Service Quality in Supply Chain Management, 3rd National Conference on Management Science and Practice. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, March 22-24, 2008.

• Use of Asymmetric Loss Functions in Sequential Estimation Problem for the Multiple Linear Regression by Raghu N. Senguta, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 2008, 35, 3, 245-261.

• Impact of information sharing and lead time on bullwhip effect and on-hand inventory by Sunil Agrawal, Raghu N. Sengupta and Kripa Shanker, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 2009, 192, 576-593.

• J K Jha and Kripa Shanker, Two-Echelon Supply Chain Inventory Model with Controllable Lead time and Service Level Constraint. Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 1096-1104, 2009.

• Devjani Chatterjee, Sharma R. R. K. and Kripa Shanker, Management Problem Solving Styles and Behavioral Practices of Leaders in Innovators and Defenders: A Comparative Study". In proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Decision Sciences in Global Enterprise Management, January 3-5, 2009, pp. 222- 234.

• Sharadindu Pandey and Sharma R.R.K , "Organization Development Interventions for Prospectors: A Theoretical Framework and its Empirical Validation", Global Business and Management Research; ISSN: 1947-5667; Universal-Publishers, Boca Raton, USA. Website: http://www.gbmr.ioksp.com; V 1(2); 2010; pp. 1-18.

• Uma Nair S.,Sharma R.R.K and Kripa Shanker,"Relating culture to implementation of management information system in an organization", International Journal of Business Research, 10(1), 2010, pp. 133-140.

• Sarkar R., Chatterjee J. and Prabhakar, T.V., "Towards Digital Ecosystems for Skill Based Industrial Clusters: Lessons from the DEAL Project, IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technology Conference, Australia Feb 2007

• Singh, S. P. and Sharma R.R.K., "Two-level modified simulated annealing based approach for solving facility layout problem", International Journal of Production Research for a possible publication; 2007, iFirst, pp. 1-20.

• Khan, A., Sharma N. K., & Dixit, S. (2006). Effect of Cognitive Load and Paradigm on Time perception. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 32 (1), 37-42.

• Iraj Mahdavi, Sharma R.R.K. and Amiri, Z.R., "Formulation of web document classification: Transforming the quadratic problem into 0-1 integer linear", International Journal of Digital Management, ISSN 1738-8554, VI, No.1, Jan 2006, pp. 63-70.

• Veena Bansal and Vivek Pandey, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics South Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006.

• Smriti Sharma and Veena Bansal, Evaluating Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Portugal, Sep 11-14, 2006.

• Avinash Tiwari and Veena Bansal, PATSEEK: Content Based Image Retrieval System For Patent Database, in Proceedings- International Conference on Electronic Business-04, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec 5 - 8, pp 2004.

• A K Mittal, "IPR issues in Software and Business Processes", Workshop on IPR Gokhle Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune March 27-28, 2004

• Sharma N K and Rasoti, "Psychological perspectives on creativity", National Seminar on Creativity and Cognitive Science (Sponsored by DST/ICPR), Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, February 26-28, 2004.

• Chatterjee J., Chapter in the Book "Innovation, Flexibility and Technology Transfer", PP 57-56, Information, Communication & E-Marketing to rural India, Editor- Dr. Abid Haleem, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Publisher- Tata McGraw Hill, 2004.

• Veena Bansal "Information Technology for Management", School of Management Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2004.

• Veena Bansal , "Information Systems for Managers", School of Management Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2004.

• Rahul Verman and Manali Chakrabarti, "Contradictions of Democracy in workers' co-operative", Organization studies, 25, 2, 183-208, 2004.

• Sharma R.R.K. and Saumya Prasad, " Obtaining a good solution to the uncapacitated transportation problem", European Journal of Operational Research, V144(3), Feb 2003, 560-564.

• A K Mittal and G P Singh, "Impact of Cost and Infeasibility on distribution of local solution over Hypercube" APORS 2003 Sixth conference of Asia-Pacific region OR societies, New Delhi, Dec. 8-10, 2003.

• Kripa Shanker, Santosh Kumar, and G K Lal, "A Generative Process Planning System for Cold Extrusion", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 41 No. 2 pp 269-295, 2003.

• Sharma N. K. and B Gupta,  "Bases of Power as function of organization type and managerial level", Behavioural Scientist, 4(2), 73-78, 2003.

• Sharma R.R.K. , G Seliger, M Eggenstein, S Shrotriya and A Bejera, “Relating objectives to manufacturing decisions in dynamic environments : Implications of an exploratory study to Indian and German manufacturing firms”, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, V 5, Nos 5/6, 2003, pp. 472 – 491.

• Rahul Verman and Mridula Dwivedi,  "Nature of Trust in Small Firm Clusters", A Case Study of Kanpur Saddlery Cluster. Clusters, Industrial Districts and Firms: The Challenge of Globalization, Conference in Honour of Prof. Sebastian Brusco, Sep. 12-13, Modena, Italy, 2003.

• Rahul Verman and Mridula Dwivedi, "Possibilities of WQorkers' Struggles in the Times of Globalization"- A Critique of Trade Unions, 45 th Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, Dec. 15-17, Kolkata, 2003.

• Rahul Verman, Mridula Dwivedi, and K K Saxena, "Nature of Trust in Small Firm Clusters", International Journal of Organization Analysis, 11, 93-104, 2003

• Rahul Verman, and Manali Chakrabarti,  "Workers' Struggles in the Time of Globalization: A Critique of Trade Unions in Historical Perspective", Indian Journal Of Labour Economics. 46, 4, 667-684, 2003

• Rahul Verman, Anjali Awasthi, "Investigating the Influence of Information Technology on Decision Making", Journal of Advances in Management Research, I, 74-87, 2003.

• R N Sengupta and S Chattopadhyay ,   "Sequential Estimation under Linux Loss in Regression Model ", International Statistical Institute (ISI), 54 th session (under Statistical Inference, (Estimation and Tests IV), 13 th -20 th August, Berlin, Germany, 2003

• Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol 4, no 4, pp 269-280, July 2002.

• Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Segmentation of touching and fused Devanagari characters, Pattern Recognition, pp 875-893, (35) 2002.

• Kripa Shanker, Santosh Kumar,  and G K Lal, "Analysis of Cold Extrusion of Non Re-entry Product Shapes", Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 1 pp. 71-78, February 2002.