No I really haven't lost it, this is what occurred to me after reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog post yesterday, this is just an initial brain dump of thoughts will flesh it out in posts...

Genpact, has signed a five-year contract to provide certain finance and accounting activities for kimberly-Clark Corporation. Outsourcing of these services to Genpact is part of Kimberly-Clark's...

The IDC blog (podcast also available) has an interview with the CIO of P&G, some excerpts from the same: How does your boss know you're doing a good job? What are P&G's KPIs for...

Capgemini and Tetra Pak a world leader in food processing and packaging, recently announced that they have signed a 7-year global outsourcing agreementcovering a range of finance and accounting...

Strassman has written whitepaper titled "7 Places to clean the clutter in i.T." , Below are some excerpts from the same: Hewlett-Packard is on track to do that under a five-year business...

Aberdeen group recently published report titled Basic Cost Elements of the Total Cost of ERP Ownership, As a part of this report there was a chart highlighting the Software & Services spend by...

EDS has a whitepaper titled "The Future, Multidimensional CIO" , which is an attempt to cover how the role of the CIO has changed since its inception in the 1970's. "role continues...

SAP was a business application company, but now it is a Platform company...so how does it effect the CIO's/Users etc. A report titled "Business Software Platform Vendor Profile: SAP" by...

Last night at the IDC Tele briefing titled "The Services Marketplace in 2007: Predictions for Business Model Change", the analysts presented their Top 10 Services Predictions for 2007. Here...

Implementing technology to help their companies become more streamlined and easier to do business with is the No. 1 business priority for 1400 CIO's worldwide surveyed by Gartner. To help...

Continuing on the posts on IT Spending, Came across another report by Alinean ( Hat tip Sadagopan) which has a report covering the topic, below are excerpts from the same: Analysis based on study of...

Below are excerpts on the IT Scenario in 2007 based on a newsletter from Forrester: 1. Growth in European IT spending is starting to match or exceed US IT spending - European IT spending will grow by...

Phil Waineright is doing a series on the trends he is expecting in the SAAS space in this year (2007), first two parts of the series are on reaching out to offline users & Composition instead of...

Information Week is carrying a piece with the results of a survey/study conducted by Forrester of 115 CIO's in North America. Summary of the results: CIOs in the 4th qtr of 2006 were more...

India's domestic IT Market including hardware, software and services is expected to grow at 21.5% during 2007 to touch Rs.75,891 crores. This will make India the fastest growing market in theh...

Top five Indian IT services companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro, have a war chest of $3.7 billion in liquid assets at their disposal. Industry experts are unanimous...