Amit Mitra
Amit was the Assistant Vice President of the American International Group, a global Insurance conglomerate. He had worldwide responsibility for the corporation's Information Systems methodology. That was the real genesis of behind the book that he has written. Amit headed an initiative for developing a strategic business knowledge architecture that cut across all of AIG's lines of business, spread over its 250 subsidiary corporation operating in more than 130 countries across the world. He initiated an R D program for developing a discipline for encapsulating business knowledge in reusable, technology independent artifacts that can facilitate applications development. The technology has matured to a point when it will shortly come to fruition, and will profoundly impact the way business is done. This technology is the topic of the book.
Amit left AIG to take up the position of Director of Systems Architecture in NYNEX, then America’s second largest telecommunications company after AT & T. He was a part of NYNEX’s leadership team, responsible for integrating the architecture of its many departments, divisions and subsidiaries. In that role he extended and tested the new disciplines he had helped create in AIG.
Amit has also been a Manager in KPMG’s e-commerce and architecture consulting practices in the US, and the Manager for Information Systems Planning unit of AGS, NYNEX’s IT consulting subsidiary. Amit has been engaged by flagship US corporations such as the Depository Trust Company, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones and others for various software process improvement, measurement and e-commerce initiatives. He is a Vice President of the Data Management Forum, and a member of SPIN, New York, dedicated to improving the software processes.
Over the last two years, Amit has focused on a topic of great personal interest to him - writing a book on the science of building business knowledge components, and the practices that will help organizations leverage this new technology to become ever more nimble and responsive.