Moving from Cost Arbitrage to Capacity Arbitrage- Akshaya Gaur, Scope International. What is Capacity Arbitrage? It’s about focusing on value: Using talent to create value. Let us see how to do that and what is a paradigm from corporate perspective. Changing Roles of a CIO Use technology as a platform to grow business, Change the [...]

Ananth Krishnan, CTO, TCS, talked on Ways to increase Industry-Academia relations. Excerpts: The viewpoints Industry Academia interaction today is largely based on talent and teaching. In India it could be at a B- Grade, has the potential for an A+ grade. Industry is good at using existing technology, not good at creating new technology for [...]

Some points from Ramamurthy Sivakumar’s talk on Strategies to manage downturn: Andy Grove’s perspective- Recessions: 1 They always End, 2 You don’t “save” yourself out of one, 3 “Some” emerge stronger than before. Cycle of recovery:The recovery playbook: 1 Aggressively manage what you can control 2 Accelerate Innovation and Infrastructure 3 Look for growth: Expand [...]

The emerging and developing ICT sectors in India and its resurgence will have impact not only on India- but entire world. So what we do is extremely important from a global perspective. IT sector has not only survived this crisis (Slowdown) but is thriving through it. Digital economy will be the economy of future. Broadband [...]

Notes from the talk of Manoj Kohli, CEO and JMD Bharti Airtel India outpaced every telecom sector except China. In 15 years we’ve half a billion customers in telecom. That is No.2 in the world 450 thousand villages out of 600 thousand villages are covered. Airtel to cover 500k villages by next year. Broadband can [...]

TamilNadu is the only govt who devices its own IT policy document that was announced on par with Govt of India. The policy brings more and more industries under its cover and helps bring more investment. 2008- an year of transformation for Indian IT. Industry is able to sustain inspite of downturn. IT BPO grow [...]

Kip Thompson, VP, Dell in his keynote address: “Theme is very appropriate. I’ve been here at least 80 times and I feel I should be a citizen of India. Now India is poised for resurgence. PC sales have seen a change over a number of years. A decline is being noticed off late but a [...]