Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Bioknol

I am a faculty member in National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE). My post-graduation is in industrial engineering. My doctoral research thesis is in the area of capital markets.

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I am a faculty member in National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE).

I did post graduation in industrial engineering and did the doctoral research work in capital markets.
 
 
"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people and plant seed that will flower and come to fruition." - Issac Assimov.
 

My Subject Interests

 
My present teaching interests are:
 
 
 
 
 
 

New Ideas

 
 
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Knol platform has to support world days by announcing the world days sufficiently in advance and encouraging knol authors to write about various dimensions related to the issue.

World Days or International Days to Highlight Challenges



My Comment on 

http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/general-feedback-about-the-knol-site/si57lahl1w25/204#

Encouraging publication of unpublished Ph.d Thesis
 
 Knol Author Recruitment - Double the Number of Knol Authors

A public online publishing platform like knol requires large number of authors who write on diverse areas and topics. Existing authors have to participate in encouraging their intellectual neighbors to write for knol. If each author can recruit one author before 30th June 2009, the author base can double.
 
 
My Knol Projects
 

1. Management Knowledge Revision Knols

 
 My popular knols - lists
 

Popular Knols - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - List 2

Popular Knols - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - List 3 

 

2. Industrial Engineering - An Important Human Engineering Discipline

 
I write on Industrial Engineering . My post graduation is in Industrial engineering.
 
I strongly believe that industrial engineering is a very useful discipline contributing to the improvement in productivity of each and every person and thus to his material well-being, comfort, safety and health. Industrial engineering is to be treated as one of the functional areas of management like marketing or finance. Like finance, whose activities spread into each and every department of an organization, industrial engineering also has application in the proceses and systems used in every function and engineers the work of persons employed in every department. Industrial engineering has enterprisewide responsibility.

According to me industrial engineering has two core areas:


Industrial engineers aspire to be systems engineers and they have reason to aspire for it as they already have specific roles in systems design and operation and they can take up leadership of systems design process. Hence industrial engineering programs have to teach systems engineering and emphasize the management dimension of systems design. According to me the management component of industrial engineering course must concentrate on management of industrial engineering department and function, systems design management and management of objectives of industrial engineering like productivity, operator comfort, safety, health and income, and operator related quality etc.
 
I collected my knols in the area of industrial engineering in the knol:
 
 
3. Investment Management
 
My doctoral work is on return on equity shares. My present teaching interests are in the areas Security analysis, mergers and acquisitions,  Issue of securities (Investment banking) and Management of securities market intermediaries.
 
Due to various reasons (Professional necessity) and interest, I studied and taught number of subjects in Natural Sciences,  Social Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Management and I plan to write about some of the issues in these subjects over a period of time. 
 
 
 
I write on many subjects from Accounting to Zoology, Both accounting and zoology are important subjects for industrial engineers. While,  I am writing on many subjects, my special expertise at post-doctoral level  is in long term investment methods and strategies. In rest of the subjects, I have academic qualifications as I took number of these subjects in my undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral courses.  I write revision articles in these subjects based on some standard text books. These articles are useful to me for  revising and updating my knowledge base and I believe, there are also useful to many for their revising and updating the knowledge in these subjects. Every knowledge worker needs to revise and update his knowledge. I hope my knols facilitate this activity to some extent.
 
My first knol was on Focus of Industrial Engineering. My contention is that focus of Industrial Engineering is efficiency - human efficiency and system efficiency. Functional design of systems is the job of other specialists and industrial engineers make the systems efficient both at the design stage as well as later as the system is in operation. The role of industrial engineers in systems design can be that way two fold - system efficiency design  and coordinating the system design process.
 
 
 

Current status of my Knol Projects  

 

(1st  September  2009)

 
I posted more than 1500 knols so far.
 
The main theme of my knol portfolio is revision articles. 
 
My aim is to provide revision or review articles for graduates of industrial engineering and management so that they can refresh their knowledge periodically. My effort of writing articles in all the subjects of the curriculum is to demonstrate that by appropriate committed effort, we can retain our learning of multiple subjects over a long period of time.
 
Only when we retain a large number of principles and recollect them, we take decisions properly when the occasion comes. According to me we are all incurring a huge amount of cost of ignorance.
 
My advocacy is that knowledge workers have to make special efforts to retain, revise, refresh and update their knowledge.
 
I also made a directory of interesting knols and there are around 250 sub-directories supporting the main directory.
 
 
 

The recent subjects on which I initiated Knols


Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting, Costing and Cost Management - Article Directory

I started writing revision articles based Horngren's book on Cost Accounting: Managerial Emphasis.


Security Analysis
 
 India - BSE Sensex Companies - Information and Equity Research

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/611

(This knol and related knols will provide information and equity research developed by my students in the subject as class assignments of their course(Jan-March 2009). This dissemination plan is as per my paper  "Independent Equity Research from Business Schools: A Possibility" published in AIMS International Journal on Management www.aims-international.org/AIJM/2-2-5.pdf).

 

Page Views of my Knol Portfolio

 
Page views on 3.9.2008: 2,90,996; Author rank in number of page view: 4, Rank in number of article 1.
 
Page Views on 13.8.2009: 2,51,483; Present author rank in number of page views: 5; Rank in number of articles 1.
 
Page views on 31.7.2009: 2,30,443; Present rank in number of page views: 6; Rank in number of articles: 1
 

Page views on 19.6.2009: 1,54,529

My page views were 68,802 on 26th February 2009

(http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/list-of-top-viewed-authors-on-knol/4hmquk6fx4gu/111?domain=knol.google.com&locale=en&version=30#)

 
 
 
 
 

 

Invitation to Visitors to get Involved

 
 
I look forward to contribution from the readers of my knols to improve them as required. Let us all utilize the wiki technology to create materials useful to us and our fellow professionals all over the world. I am intentionally creating number of open collaboration knols to prompt visitors to get involved.
 

My Knol Directory

 

I am preparing a directory of my knols with subject classification to facilitate access.

 

The main subject directory is: 

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/article-series-directory-management/2utb2lsm2k7a/120

 

My Blog Directory

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Contact Mail Id

My mail id for contact is kvssnrao50@gmail.com
 
 
 
 
 
 

An Orkut Community started by me

 

Management Theory and Practice 

http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=54603526

The community is expected to facilitate research - to- practice and practice -to- research communication.

 

To further this objective of research to practice dialogue, I am  starting the pattern of giving relevant research papers yearwise in management concept knols. I request researchers and research scholars to add to the research papers and enrich the bibliography.

Management Concept Knol Directory aa-az

 

 
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Comments


Bill Gaw

Message from Bill Gaw

Mr. Rao,

Some of your writings are appearing on my Knol. Please visit my Knol (Bill Gaw) and your comments would be appreciated.

Bill Gaw

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Jesús Martín Calvo

Hello professor

Thank you very much for asking about my studies, indeed they are going well, I am writing a lot of papers and I will adapt them for knol in summer, when I have more time. In the meantime, I check the bulletin board and see the new improvements of Knol regularly so I try to be updated!

Best regards, I admire your work

Last edited Apr 6, 2009 1:05 AM
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Krishan Maggon

100.000 Page views

Prof. Rao,

Please accept my congratulations for reaching this milestone in advance and in winning the silver medal in Best knol of the month contest for Stock Market Poems. Your publishing of student course work was a historic first as many of your other suggestions in taking new directions and improvements.

Last edited Apr 2, 2009 12:29 AM
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Wlodzimierz Holsztynski

Thank you

Dear Professor Narayana Rao,

thank you for inviting me to your California project. This is about to prompt me to create a "California in poetry" knol (or rather a series of knols). When it's somewhat developed, you may consider it for inclusion in your (our?) California list of knols.

Best regards,
Wlod

Mar 9, 2009 12:54 AM
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Krishan Maggon

1000th knol : Best Knol for March 2009 Prof Rao 1000th knol

Prof.

Is there a direct link to your 1000 knol?

FYI

Best Knol for March 2009 Prof Rao 1000th knol (a direct link is required)

Andreas,

Thanks for the information and nominating our knols as winners.

I suggest that the knol community join me in congratulating Prof Rao in reaching a significant step and milestone by becoming the first author to write over 1000 knols. I wish to nominate his 1000th knol as the best knol of the month March 2009 (to be selected by Prof Rao). This is good for the entire knol community.

Krishan

Last edited Mar 1, 2009 10:49 PM
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