Archives for “Suyati”
While the ink on the offshoring contract is still drying, it is the right time to start engaging with your new Indian team in a way which nurtures the new relationship and builds trust on both sides. The new booklet Engaging with India by Dr Wolfgang Messner, Director of GloBus Research Ltd., shows why culture [...]
What distinguishes a technology leader from the rest of the pack? What decides whether you stay on top or fall from grace? And finally what do you have to do to become a technology leader? The recent CIO 100 Awards provides some of the answers. “Companies at their best have nothing to align,” says Senior [...]
After having discussed the costs and risks of setting up operations in India as well as IT Outsourcing as a long term alternative, we will now take a look at the happy medium: IT outsourcing as an intermediate stage towards setting up an operation in India. This approach is especially convenient for SMEs that are [...]
For small and medium-sized companies, setting up an operation in India can be a long and rocky road. Because it is hard to predict whether this investment of time and money as well as the administrative efforts are worthwhile, most small and medium-sized enterprises decide to partner with an IT outsourcing vendor instead. Indeed, IT [...]
The fact that companies like IBM, Daimler and Bosch are operating facilities in India since several years, reveal that their investments (and calculated risk) have proven to be good. But is it also advisable for small and medium-sized enterprises to immediately set up an operational base in India? The inevitable answer: It depends! The success [...]
Last week we posted 4 questions every CEO needs to ask his IT outsourcing vendor. But frankly, a CEO needs to ask only one question – why is your rate so low? Global parity has ensured that low wages is something that you can only dream about. With IT professionals able to pick and choose [...]
NASSCOM and BITKOM are jointly organizing the 7th Indo-German ICT Conference in Cologne, Germany on the 9th and 10th of June. Titled “New Realities in the GLOBALIZED World”, this conference focuses on increasing Indo-German collaboration in business, especially for ICT companies. Heinz-Paul Bonn, Vice President of BITKOM: “It is my sincere belief that the conference-related [...]
The ever popular (and evergreen) book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is an inquiry into the values that govern our life. The author Robert Persig tries to reconcile two divergent approaches to bike maintenance, and life in general. The first approach is the “Romantic” approach to life adopted by the author’s friend John [...]
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) representing 99% of the global economy and close to 50% of their country’s GDP, face a hyper-competitive business environment today, and are looking for partners to enable them to compete successfully. (Infographic by www.contentcrossroads.com) Why do SMBs partner with IT sourcing service vendors? The reason is simple. They want to [...]
CeBIT has been rightly hailed as the digital industry’s most important international event ever. Anyone who has a stake in the digital industry can arrive at CeBIT, Germany, and compare notes on industry developments and trends, and build contacts and business leads. The world’s very first CeBIT event was held in March 1986, when 2,142 [...]