Dr Kabaly P Subramanian is the Acting Dean-Faculty of Business Studies, at Arab Open University, Oman. Dr Kabaly holds a PhD in Management. He is a Fellow at the Chartered Management Institute, FCMI (UK) and an International Research Fellow (IRF) at the University of Selangor (Malaysia). Also, he is a certified Management and   Business Educator, CMBE, from the Chartered Association of Business Schools, CABS (UK). Recently he is inducted as Senior Member of IEEE (US). 

He is a member of the British Academy of Management (UK),   Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Strategic partner of Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre (Malaysia).  Dr Kabaly P Subramanian has been in Academia for the past 24+ years. He believes in and practices a balanced academic approach: Research, Teaching and Learning, Industry and Community Services.

 Research

Dr Kabaly's Research and Teaching interests lie at the intersection of Business Strategy, Business Innovation, Startups, Startup Ecosystems and Digital Transformation of Businesses. Dr Kabaly has published in indexed journals and visited and presented at conferences across the world including India, US, UK, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Georgia, Lebanon, Germany, Egypt and Poland and won the best research paper award.  He is presently leading a team of researchers in investigating phenomena including Value as a Strategy, Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions, Blockchain in Business, and IoT in Education. MoHERI Oman and other external Industry funding partners fund these research projects. Dr Kabaly is on the Editorial Board of several academic research journals. 

 Teaching and Learning Facilitation

Dr Kabaly P Subramanian is a well-respected teacher and Learning facilitator in Business Strategy, Business Innovation, Digital Business and Entrepreneurship courses and modules at both Undergraduate (BBA) and Postgraduate (MBA) levels. He receives good feedback from his students as an “inspiring” teacher.

 Industry and Community Services

Dr Kabaly P Subramanian has trained more than 1000 Business leaders, Entrepreneurs and Executives in Strategy, Innovation and Digital Transformation worldwide. He conducts Strategy workshops, Executive Education Programmes and coaching sessions for Startup founders and founding teams. Dr Kabaly P Subramanian has consulted large, medium, and small enterprises on Strategy, Innovation and Digital Transformation initiatives. Presently Dr Kabaly is consulting a large corporation in Oman on their Digital Transformation Strategy and is a Strategy Coach to a senior management team of a corporate group in Oman. Dr Kabaly is involved in social initiatives which include supporting educational Institutions and startups ecosystem enabling.

 Continuous Learner

Dr Kabaly believes in and invests in continuous learning and Development. Recently Dr Kabaly graduated from Columbia Business School, US and MIT, US in their jointly offered PG programme in Digital Business through the Emeritus Institute of Management, Singapore and a programme in Public Policy from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. He has attended several Faculty Development Programmes (FDP) and Management Development Programmes (MDP) in reputed institutions which include IIM-K, IIM-B, TAPMI, ISB (India), UCSI (Malaysia) and, Oxford University (UK).

 Awards

Dr Kabaly has received several awards including the Best Employee award from the Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman, and Best Professor in Management Studies as a part of the “Oman Innovation Leadership Award" 2021. Recognized by Arab Open University Presidentship for “Dedication and the outstanding role played” in accomplishing Open University, UK validation in 2021. He also won the Best Research Paper award.

 Prior Experience

Before Arab Open University, Dr Kabaly P Subramanian worked as Head of the Academic Section at Al Musanna College of Technology (University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Musanna) Sultanate of Oman. Also, he worked with the University of Madras affiliated National Institute of Human Resource Development as a member of faculty, in India.