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...

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The IT industry status and outlook

The interesting conclusion one can draw from the FY12 outlook posted by NASSCOM is that the IT Services folks are still growing faster than the BPO and Engineering Services and Products players in spite of a much larger base. My own belief is that this will not change in the foresseable future. All of us who are significant players in services are embracing non-linear growth and creating IP as well as new platforms for Cloud and BPO which will enable us to maintain growth and profits and transform to true solutions companies. Next year will be...

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Its a new world !

In spite of all the doomsday forecasts for the global and Indian economy, the new year has started off reasonably well. The Stock markets are up, the rupee is the best performing currency in Jan and the outlook for the IT sector is fairly decent both for CY 12 and FY 13. So relax folks, no need to worry ....y...

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