Karippur Nanda Kumar is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium. Dr. Kumar is an Associate Professor and Area Head of IT at SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore, where he is responsible for leading and coordinating teaching, applied research, and industry collaborations in the areas of IT management and e-business across the school’s four campuses in Dubai, Sydney, Singapore, and Mumbai. Dr. Kumar has over 30 years’ experience as a leader and scholar practitioner in diverse areas such as ICT policy and strategy development, consultancy, industry and innovation ecosystem development, program management, and training. He was involved in developing several national ICT master plans over two decades in Singapore and rolled out a number of national collaborative initiatives successfully for ICT talent development in partnership with lead­ing industry players, associations, and institutes of higher learning. Dr. Kumar has been conferred a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society and is actively involved in applied research in areas such as ICT policies, innovation, digital transformation, and ICT talent management. He can be reached at experts@cutter.com.