Revolutionizing The Game Of Field Hockey In India Using The Entrepreneurship And Systems Engineering Approaches

Field hockey has long been the popular team sport in India in which the country has won eight Olympic gold medals in the last century. In the last few years, the country has not been doing too well in international tournaments as well as the Olympic Games or the World Cup. In this paper, the authors outline their plans to rejuvenate and revitalize hockey in India using Private Ownership / Professional and Entrepreneurial approaches of North American Professional Teams as well as incorporating the latest systems engineering principles to revolutionize the game from an art form to a highly effective scientific approach. In pseudo-socialist India where there is no private ownership of the hockey teams, the element of accountability is lacking and all sport appears as an amateur exercise. In these days of India dominating the world of software engineering, it is time that a related concept of systems engineering was used to get India back to the top of world hockey.