Accenture’s decision to add another 8,000 headcount (HC) in India is making news. This will make their India HC larger than US. For me a more significant inflection point will come in a few months. It’s almost certain that Infosys will report a higher profit than Accenture this quarter…
Archive for January, 2007
Accenture’s Two Inflection Points This Year (Involving Employees and Profits)
Published by January 31st, 2007 in offshoring and software industry. 5 CommentsLooking at Orbit Change in Three Industries
Published by January 30th, 2007 in software industry, biotech/pharma industry and mobile industry. 0 CommentsWhat happened with Lucent is relevant to the changes that Big Pharma and Enterprise Software industry are facing today. Firms like Pfizer seem to have finally embraced the orbit change that’s needed. But others need to get started as well. Time is ticking away. Is history about to repeat itself?
Tepid Embrace of Open Source in India
Published by January 29th, 2007 in software industry. 10 CommentsThere has been a lot of optimism about the growth of Open Source community in India. Somehow this hasn’t happened. What are the reasons behind this?
Here is a fascinating map illustrating the “epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft”. Steven Hilton has updated this recently.
I like the way it depicts…
the old SCO attack as a FUD attack, now stalled
the recent Novell-MS deal as a flanking attack, a win by MS
Firefox advance and […]
What’s your experience with Gmail Mobile or Flurry on a GPRS network?
Why CIOs Have a Shot at Becoming Chief Innovation Officers
Published by January 25th, 2007 in offshoring, software industry, organizational design and adaptable infrastucture. 0 CommentsUtility infrastructure model is coming. There is no escaping this trend. This trend will reshape CIOs job significantly. CIOs will either become practically redundant or will become Chief Innovation Officers. I think it will be the latter and here is why…
Short, Modular Content and Its Impact on Culture
Published by January 24th, 2007 in civic issues. 5 CommentsI comment on Tim O’Reilly’s post where he says that short, modular form of content is more suitable for social production. My sense is that the improved accessibility for consumption and production of content is not only changing content is also changing people who consume it. Are we sliding towards more radicalized micro-communities or are we creating more ‘anchored’ individuals that are comfortable with diversity and change?
Big Pharma is Feeling the Pressure
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in biotech/pharma industry. 3 CommentsThe outburst by Jean-Francois Dehecq, chairman, Sanofi-Aventis indicates that the big pharma is feeling the pressure…
Foreign Policy Planning and its Similarity to Corporate Strategy
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in civic issues. 1 CommentThis discussion on Indian foreign policy in Africa had uncanny parallels to corporate strategy formulation.
Business Week tallies up a nice list of 5 promising crowdsourcing initiatives.
No, Entrepreneurship in IT Services is Not Over!
Published by January 19th, 2007 in software industry and entrepreneurship. 2 CommentsIt’s wrong to suggest that the game is over in IT services in India and no new startups are needed.
IHT has a story about the spread of advertising-supported free business models to computer games, broadband access, newspapers, digital over-the-air television, legal digital music and even mobile content. There is no guarantee that this ad-financed model will work either for the companies or for the consumers.
This R&D Boom Now Needs a (Temporary) Bust
Published by January 18th, 2007 in offshoring. 2 CommentsR&D offshoring to India is booming. This is creating many bubble effects. Is a bust round the corner?
Lack of Breakthrough Innovation by Big Companies
Published by January 18th, 2007 in innovation and software industry. 1 CommentBig companies can do breakthrough innovation in one of two ways. They can either emulate an entrepreneurial company much like what Apple has done in recent years. Or it can leverage its size to follow the Toyota and Honda’s Kaizen method of breakthrough innovation. Right now, unfortunately, most IT companies are doing neither.
As I read other blogs, I mark out the blogposts that I really like. You can now see these blogposts in the new section called “Linkroll” in the sidebar (it’s just above the Blogroll section).
5 Reasons Why Engineers in India Disclose Their Salaries
Published by January 17th, 2007 in uncategorized. 126 CommentsEver wondered why engineers in India always disclose their salaries especially after the appraisal?
Frost and Sullivan says that India is the fastest growing market for electronic products in the world.
Resurgence of the Indian SMB Sector
Published by January 16th, 2007 in software industry, bottom-of-the-pyramid and SaaS. 2 CommentsBusiness World’s cover story says that the Indian SMB sector is now booming.
Oracle and SAP Results: Evidence of a Fading-Edge
Published by January 15th, 2007 in software industry. 1 CommentOracle and SAP quarterly results show that the large-enterprise market is saturated. A price war is breaking out and a wave of market-expansion acquisitions is likely to be unleashed soon. Unfortunately, most of these new deals will be value-destroying. It’s best that next-gen ERP players focused on the SMB better stay away from the embrace of Oracle and SAP.
A recent book, A Perfect Mess, argues that being very organized takes time and kills any chance of serendipity.
An Incumbent’s Struggle with Disruptive Innovation – The AT&T Microchip Story
Published by January 12th, 2007 in innovation. 47 CommentsThis is a story about how AT&T missed the bus with microchips. It shows how difficult it is for incumbents to succeed with disruptive innovation.
Bad News about TI’s LoCosto Chipset
Published by January 12th, 2007 in innovation, mobile industry and bottom-of-the-pyramid. 0 CommentsTI’s Locosto chipset is having technical problems because of which it might lose the early mover advantage.
Computer Science With a Soul
Published by January 11th, 2007 in innovation and software industry. 1 CommentThe kind of “soulful” revolution that economics is seeing today is also strongly needed in computer science. I am not suggesting that the “old” computer science of operating systems, programming languages, database systems and networking is passé. No, instead, my view is that we need to build on the foundational subjects to address the new research questions that have suddenly become important… Happily some of this change is starting to happen…
Don’t worry if you haven’t. It’s rather new. MoSoSo, or mobile social software, is software — generally on a mobile phone or on a laptop computer — that facilitates social encounters, or mobile social networking by associating geographical location and time with one’s own social network. Mike Butcher has a nice overview of the space here. He suggests that…
He’s a 15 year old in Chennai (India) who’s creating waves. He had done a fabulous analysis of Scoble’s blog that you must check out here. BTW, don’t forget his edgy About Me section. Here is what some of the folks have to say about him…
