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Dr. Shanta Rajapaksha Yapa
Director - SLIIT Innovate | Senior Academic Fellow
Faculty of Business | Information Management
Career Summary
Shanta Rajapaksha Yapa PhD (Colombo), FBCS (UK), MIET (UK), MBA (Sri J.), MSc (Moratuwa) , NDT Mech Eng., CMILT (SL), CMSLIM, MCS (SL), MIEEE
Dr. Yapa is the first PhD from the Faculty of Management & Finance, University of Colombo. He has academic and professional qualifications in mechanical engineering, IT, textile and clothing technology, banking and business management. He is a Certified Innovation Manager and a member of eight chartered and professional institutions in IT, engineering, logistics, marketing, psychology and industrial engineering. He has received training in development banking, quality management and energy engineering from HIID of Harvard University, JNIDB (India), and RIT, Sweden.
Dr Yapa has 36 years of experience in diverse industry sectors of manufacturing, banking, international business and ICT in leading organizations including Hatton National Bank PLC, Ceylinco Group and Affiniti Innovations. He is currently a board director of the ICT Industry Skills Council of Sri Lanka, a past president (2013/15) and an exco member (2008/2020) of the FITIS Software Chapter and represented Sri Lanka at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) as a council member (2013/2015).
He has been teaching strategy, OB and research methods in postgraduate programs of 20 local and international universities for 20 years as a visiting lecturer. The universities include University of Moratuwa, 7 UK universities, 2 Australian universities and 3 Indian universities. He is an Asst Professor (Visiting) attached to Universal Business School, India and works as an advisor of their Case Research Center. He is an Associate Tutor attached to Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He is in advisory committees of many Sri Lankan universities. He was a visiting faculty member of AITE of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand for 7 years (2008/2015). He was also a member of the standing committee for IT at the University Grants Commission from 2010 to 2017.
Dr Yapa has published several articles and tools in open innovation and knowledge management. In 2020, he authored the strategy book RISING IN CRISIS – Survival & Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Managers. The book offers many new tools and over 200 strategic insights covering all functional areas of an organization. He is a certified reviewer and a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Management & Business Studies - Faculty of Management & Finance, University of Colombo - Thesis: Open Innovation (2014-2020)
- MSc - Textile & Clothing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa (2003-2007)
- MBA - Postgraduate Institue of Management, University of Sri Jayewaradenepura (1995-1998)
- NDT Mechanical Engineering (Automobile) - University of Moratuwa (1981-1984)
- Intermediate Diploma in Banking - Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (1993)
Part qualifications:
- Completed all the taught modules with an overall distinction of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree of AIT, Thailand (2007/2012).
- Completed all the taught modules of the Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering program of NIBM (1999/2000).
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Head of the Sri Lankan Delegation for APICTA 2013 in Hong Kong.
- Economy Coordinator - Sri Lanka, APICTA 2010 in Malaysia
- President - Federation of IT Industry Sri Lanka - Software Chapter - 2013/2015
- Director - ICT Industry Skills Council of Sri Lanka (Since 2016)
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Open innovation
- Inventing, innovating and patenting
- Knowledge management
- Technology adoption
- New Product Development
- Strategy
- International business
- SME
Memberships
- FBCS (UK) - Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institutue for IT, UK (Membership Number: 995090960)
- MIET (UK) - Member of the Insitution of Engineering & Technology, UK (Membership number: 1100951343)
- CMILT (SL) - Chartered Member of the Chartered Institue of Logistics & Transport, Sri Lanka (Membership number: 51677)
- CMSLIM - Certified Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (Membership number: CM/Y/0002)
- Member - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Membership number:000103723582)
- MIEEE - Member of IEEE (Membership number: 97755884)
- Member of the American Psychological Associataion ( Membership number - C2203867709)
- MCS - Member of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (Membership number: M2121)
- MIIE - Member of Institute of Industrial Engineers
- Member of ISPIM (Membership number - 2193)
Ongoing Research
Commercilaization of speaker verification and diarization technologies - A research done in collbaoration with Avonet Technologies and the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna.
My Publications
Journal Publications
- Yapa S R, Senathiraja R, Kauranen I " "A novel metaphor concerning the terminology of open innovation" " International Business Research , vol.14, Issue 2, 2022, pp.114-123, https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v14n2p114,
- Shanta R. Yapa, R. Senathiraja, Jurgen Poesche, Ilkka Kauranen " "Sequential Coherence: A Novel Determinant of Open Innovation Performance" " American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, vol.9, 2022, pp.1781-1799, https://doi.org/10.4236/ajibm.2019.99117,
- Shanta R Yapa, R. Senathiraja, Jurgen Poesche, Ilkka Kauranen " "Sequential Coherence as a Success Factor in Personal Selling" " International Journal of Marketing Studies, vol.12, Issue 2, 2022, pp.13-22, https://doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v12n2p13,
- Yapa S. R., Senathiraja R., Kauranen I. " "IMPROVING INNOVATION PERFORMANCE BY CONVERGENCE IN OPEN INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM SOFTWARE FIRMS IN SRI LANKA" " Vidyodaya Journal of Management , vol.4, Issue 2, 2022, pp.1-33,
- Yapa S R, Senathiraja R, Porsche J, Kauranen I " "Time Orientation & Sequential Coherence as Novel Determinants of Open Innovation Performance" " Peradeniya Management Review - Volume II Issue 1 (June) 2020, vol.2, Issue 1, 2022, pp.27-43, http://doi.org/10.4038/pmr.v2i1.33,
- Yapa S R, Senathiraja R, Porsche J, Kauranen I. " "Why adoption of some technologies is faster? An explanation through Sequential Coherence" " Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies, vol.1, Issue 2, 2022, pp.58-74,
Conference Proceedings
- Yapa S R, Senathiraja R, Porsche J, Kauranen I. The role of Sequential Coherence in Open Innovation: A qualitative inquiry in International Conference on Business Research, year 2019, pp.83-97, University of Moratuwa, June 26, 2019,
- Shanta R Yapa, R Senathiraja, Ilkka Kauranen THE ROLE OF CONVERGENCE IN IMPROVING INNOVATION PERFORMANCE IN OPEN INNOVATION in IOURS 2018, year 2018, Colombo , Open University of Sri Lanka ,
World Wide Web
- Shanta R Yapa " TASC: A Practitioner’s Tool for Better Results in Open Innovation "innovation management.se." By: Innovation Management SE By: 2020
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