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Wednesday 22 February 2012

Collaborating with Competitors

Kiran Karnik's new book launched at the recent Nasscom Leadership Forum is all about the theme of how people who fight bitterly in global and domestic competition are able to come together extremely well for common causes like global trade, innovation and other industry issues. It is a natural trait of all human beings to collaborate and we are only forced to take combative positions when the necessity of competition force us to do so !

My own experiences with NASSCOM over nearly two decades reveal that all IT CEOs are well meaning blokes and whether it is industry founder FC Kohli, doyen Narayana Murthy or even non resident former Chairmen like Raj Jain and Firoze Vandrewala, the alignment to the common cause is very strong indeed. Long may this bonhomie last and take this 100 billion dollar industry to a trillion by 2030 !

Kiran Karnik himself like his predecessor Dewang Mehta has collaborative skills as one of his main characteristics. I owe my Chairmanship of NASSCOM in 2008-09 to this man who genuinely believed that contributors should find their place in the sky even if it is resplendent with the shine of many bright suns !

Ganesh

2 comments:

Excellent information related to IT. Good to know that IT and ITes will be become 100 billion dollar industry to a trillion by 2030.

The quarter results have been iffy but I believe there is still enough juice in the market for the industry to grow at 15 percent plus in FY 13

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