Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on March 31, 2007
There has been a lot of talk about talent shortage in India, during the investor presentation of Wipro they covered a section on Talent management here are some excerpts: Source: 1 Prashanth Rai......
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Have been following Frank Buytendijk's (VP Corporate Strategy) blog for some time now, he writes some interesting stuff, dont miss the one with the start trek approach. In one of his posts Frank...
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First it was Bharati Airtel, than recently there was the IDEA deal, well now looks like HUTCH is also going down the same path, Hutchison Essar is now looking at outsourcing its IT operations to...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
Sometime back we had a post on Satyam's persual of some mega deals and the large sized ambitions of Indian IT Services companies, well here is the first of the announcements: Satyam Yesterday...
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Filed in archive Networking
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
DHL: In June 2005, DHL Worldwide Express declared it was building the IT infrastructure to put RFID tags on every package it ships by 2015. The plans were to improve shipment controls, cut costs, and...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on March 29, 2007
A survey of 172 CIOs conducted by recruitment firm Harvey Nash Co. and was sponsored by KPMG LLP, Made the following findings 80% of CIO's think their roles are becoming more strategic to their...
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There has been a lot of news around the suit filed by Oracle on SAP for Grad Theft by its TomorrowNow operations, i had a chance to rdo a quick read of the complaint and have found a variety of......
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"While we regret Shai's decision to leave, we congratulate him on his record of achievement at SAP," said Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board and company founder on the...
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During the Q3 earning's call of Oracle , Larry Ellison commented "We closed the gap and gained applications market share again this quarter. Oracle's application new license business grew...
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Forrester have released a report with their take on the Vendor comparison in the NorthAmerica, Application Outsourcing Market, IBM and Accenture still lead the market, of course closely followed by a...
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IBM recently announced new analytics software designed to help organizations rapidly consolidate and analyze unstructured information such as e-mail, comments, voice and chat communications to deliver...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on March 24, 2007
Forbes has an article highlighting the salary rise in India, wage inflation is being discussed as one of the key issues facing IT Services Firms in India, here are excerpts of the same: It pays to be...
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Outsourcing is big business and Outsourcing advisory firms have a very important role to play, Forrester has a presentation with an overview of some of the firms, listed below:...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
IBM recently announced the findings of a new study which concludes that in order for multinational companies to succeed in China they will need to develop strategies that focus more on China's...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a report on IT Governance below are some of the insights/findings from the report based on interviews conducted: IT alignment is the highest rated driver and outcome of IT...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on March 23, 2007
Couple of days back i wrote a post of how size does matter in IT Services players, so how are the smaller players reacting, both of them seem be planning a lot around Chennai (South Indian City, My...
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In March'04 a mega outsourcing deal announcement was made out of India, Bharati the largest private sector telecommunication company in India, Inked a deal with IBM for total IT transformational...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on March 20, 2007
Yesterday i had written a post on the growing / large ambitions of Indian IT services firms, well today i came acorss this post at the Infoworld site on how the small players are getting...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on March 19, 2007
Infosys was awarded Wachovia's IT Vendor of the Year for 2006. The honor was presented during Wachovia's inaugural Information Technology Vendor Awards ceremony in December, where the company...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on March 19, 2007
Morrisons is to invest £110m over the next three years to improve its IT infrastructure - but don't expect any radical changes from the supermarket chain. Mark Bolland, chief executive officer...
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by prashanth on March 19, 2007
Our Cricket world cup ambitions might have been dampened after the losing to Bangladesh, but there is no dampening the ambitions of the Indian IT Services firms. Today as i headed to the Economic...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on March 18, 2007
Cognizant is one of the IT Services companies that is really growing fast, it is Indian to the extent that close to the 85% of their staff is located in India. Infact I have heard and read very good...
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