I am Rajesh Naik–consultant, trainer and author by profession. I currently live in Bangalore.
After my B Tech (Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, 1979), I joined IIM Ahmedabad for post graduation in management. In 1981 I joined TCS, then a cute 800 person company. After a short stint in a chemical firm, I worked with NIIT, after which I broke free of organizational hierarchy and began to work independently as a process and quality consultant around the time the ISO 9001 wave hit Indian companies.
In 1994, I joined QAI. I have helped clients with project management, software estimation, software testing and reviews, ISO 9001, and CMM®/ CMMI®). My current interest areas include human capital management and performance alignment using People CMM® and Balanced Scorecard.
I have started a new blog titled AlignMentor. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Slideshare.
Over the last fifteen years, I have co-authored seven books with Swapna Kishore. The last of them is Aligning Ferret: How an Organization Meets Extraordinary Challenges. It is a business novel that uses a crisis in a fictitious, Bangalore-based company to convey alignment and performance management concepts.
My wife Swapna Kishore, writes fiction and non-fiction, and also support caregivers of dementia patients in India. Her site Dementia Care Notes is possibly the most comprehensive site for caregiving of dementia patients in India (it even has a Hindi version!). She also shares personal experiences and provides dementia care support through her blog SwapnaWrites. Additional web presences include her Linkedin presence, videos on youtube, and presentations on slideshare.
My son Vipul Naik is doing his graduate studies in math at the University of Chicago, and also (occasionally) blogs at http://thinkingbeyondcompetition.wordpress.com and http://whatisresearch.wordpress.com.
®-CMMI and CMM are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.