Pallab Saha

Dr. Pallab Saha is with the National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems Science (NUS-ISS). His current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published three books, Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture; and Coherency Management–Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance. His books are widely referred by practitioners and researchers around the world, making it to the Top Seller list in 2008 and 2009. His papers have been translated and published in Korean, Russian and Polish. Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence. They are available in IDS Scheer’s ARIS Toolset. He is a recipient of the Microsoft research grant in the area of Government EA supported by the UN and the World Bank. He consults extensively and has provided consulting services to the Ministry of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Integrated Health Information Systems, IP Office of Singapore, CPF Board, SingHealth, Governments of Oman and Kazakhstan, and Great Eastern Life Assurance among others. He has been invited as a distinguished speaker to the World Bank, Carnegie Mellon University, UN University, The Open Group, Microsoft, SAP Labs, Denmark IT Society, Korea Institute for IT Architecture, IEEE, SGGovCamp, Nanyang Business School, IIM Bangalore, Governments of South Australia, Jordan, UAE, Macau, Korea, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nepal and several Singapore government agencies. His work has been featured and cited by the UN, WHO, United States DoD, Carlsberg and The Open Group and has contributed to the World Bank’s EA Guidelines for Vietnam and Bangladesh. Featured as an Architect in the Spotlight by the Journal of EA he has been an external examiner for research degrees to the University of New South Wales, a Visiting Researcher to the UN University, an expert reviewer to the ACM Enterprise Architecture Tech Pack and an invited guest faculty to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Earlier, as Head of Development he has managed Baxter's offshore centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program. He can be contacted at pallab@nus.edu.sg.

Publications

Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future: Tackling Complexity in Governments in the Cusp of Change
Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future: Tackling Complexity in Governments in the Cusp of Change
Pallab Saha. © 2016. 67 pages.
Governments are changing by design, necessity, and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes...
A Systemic Perspective to Managing Complexity with Enterprise Architecture
A Systemic Perspective to Managing Complexity with Enterprise Architecture
Pallab Saha. © 2014. 580 pages.
Organizational complexity is an unavoidable aspect of all businesses, even larger ones, which can hinder their ability to react to sudden or disruptive change. However, with the...
Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future: Tackling Complexity in Governments in the Cusp of Change
Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future: Tackling Complexity in Governments in the Cusp of Change
Pallab Saha. © 2014. 70 pages.
Governments are changing by design, necessity, and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes...
Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government: Practices and Innovations
Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government: Practices and Innovations
Pallab Saha. © 2012. 591 pages.
Enterprise Architecture is the inherent design and management approach essential for organizational coherence leading to alignment, agility, and assurance. Structured Enterprise...
Connected Government as the New Normal: A Strategic Thinking Approach to Whole-of-Government Enterprise Architecture Adoption
Connected Government as the New Normal: A Strategic Thinking Approach to Whole-of-Government Enterprise Architecture Adoption
Pallab Saha. © 2012. 55 pages.
Around the world, governments are constantly facing new demands, greater expectations, and an increasingly more vociferous and assertive citizenry calling for better governance....
Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture
Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture
Pallab Saha. © 2009. 502 pages.
Over the past two decades, the government sector has emerged as the area of largest implementation of enterprise architecture - a critical success factor for all types, scales...
A Methodology for Government Transformation with Enterprise Architecture
A Methodology for Government Transformation with Enterprise Architecture
Pallab Saha. © 2009. 29 pages.
Countries across the world are pushing their frontiers in governance in the move to information economy, and governments play a pivotal role in this transformation. These...
E-Business Process Management and IT Governance
E-Business Process Management and IT Governance
Pallab Saha. © 2009. 10 pages.
E-business process management (e-BPM) entails management of e-business processes with the customer initiating the process and involves non-linear processes with strong focus on...
Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice
Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice
Pallab Saha. © 2007. 500 pages.
Enterprise architecture (EA) is the organizing logic for a firm's core business processes and IT capabilities captured in a set of policies and technical choices. Handbook of...
E-Business Process Management and IT Government
E-Business Process Management and IT Government
Pallab Saha. © 2006. 7 pages.
E-business process management (e-BPM) entails management of e-business processes with the customer initiating the process and involves non-linear processes with strong focus on...
Straight-Thought Processing Adoption
Straight-Thought Processing Adoption
Pallab Saha. © 2006. 6 pages.
Free trading has been instrumental in the enormous growth of the number and volume of cross-border trading transactions across all industries. In 2000, volume at the National...
Developing Dynamic Balanced Scorecards
Developing Dynamic Balanced Scorecards
Pallab Saha. © 2005. 7 pages.
With the advent of scientific management in the late 19th century came attempts to increase worker efficiency by setting standards for various factors in an industrial system....