Bala Iyer Contributing Expert

Bala Iyer is a professor in the Technology, Operations, and Information Management Division at Babson College, where he is also the William D. Bygrave Term Chair in Technology, and a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Iyer served as a panelist at Cutter's Summit 2013. His research interests include exploring the role of business architect in designing and delivering capabilities and studying technology-mediated networks and their application to knowledge management systems. Dr. Iyer's work is at the intersection of technology and strategy and uses concepts from systems design, hypermedia design and workflow management, dynamic systems, and model management. For the past several years, he has been analyzing the software industry ecosystem to understand the logic and patterns of the emergence of architecture and platforms. Dr. Iyer received his PhD in information systems from New York University with a minor in computer science.

More from Bala Iyer:

• App Development to Beat the IT Backlog: The Cognizant Story
• Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy