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Professor Sadagopan has been consulting to industry since early eighties. His consulting assignments include strategic consulting (re-positioning enterprise operations, expansion plans, diversification into new areas and markets, Indian market entry), major IT investments (enterprise-wide network backbone, , projects of national importance), enterprise-wide applications (ERP, SCM, CRM, EAI initiative), new and emerging technology (bar coding, RD, biometric identification, new media, IP-based services, portal development, hosting services, ASP, e-Governance). He has over the past decades consulted for some of the largest public sector corporations in India in the oil (Indian Oil, Oil, Madras Refineries & Natural Gas Corporation), power (Bharat Heavy Electricals, National Thermal Power Corporation, MP State Electricity Board), Transportation (Indian Railways, State Road Transport Corporations, Rail Coach Factory), High-Tech (Uptron, BEL, ITI, BEL, ADA), Financial Services (Life Insurance Corporation of India, Canara Bank, Reserve Bank of India), Hospitality (India Tourism Development Corporation), Mining & Minerals (MMTC, National Mineral Development Corporation, Mining & Metal Trading Corporation), Aerospace (Hindustan Aeronautics, National Aerospace Lab, Aeronautical Development Authority), and Defence industry (Ordnance Factories, Bharat Electronics Ltd), and Government Departments (Departments of Railways, Posts, Telecom, Personnel, Administrative Reforms, IT); largest private sector corporations in Automobile (Tata Engineering, Ashok Leyland, Maruti Udyog, Amara Raja Batteries, and Lohia Machines, and Scooters India), and High-Tech industry (Wipro, TCS, Ramco, Mastek, Pramati Technologies, Visual Soft, Satyam, CMC,GAVS Information Systems, Manmar Technologies, Allen & Bradley India, Krone Electronics). He has also done extensive consulting / advisory service to several social sector organizations that include Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital and Kanchi Mutt. Several multinational corporations have taken his advice regarding their India strategy in their early days of starting operations in India.