18 March 2010
I was reading a report in today’s TOI on Infy’s iRace (iRace — Infosys Role and Career Enhancement) policy causing a lot of resentment within the company. iRace has been designed by Mercer Consulting and was intended to assign each level within the corporate ladder with the relevant skills and experience. In Indian IT companies it [...]
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16 March 2010
I was talking to an ex colleague the other day, who now is a part of a shared services set up of a leading global multi business MNC. What he said was quite interesting- having adopted a decentralized approach to outsourcing in its early days, the company had found itself with nearly a 1000 vendors. [...]
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14 March 2010
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing operating system. It enables the development of cloud based applications using Azure’s Services platform. Hosting on Azure comes at $0.12/hour while storage is at $0.15GB per month. The company claims that over 3000 apps have been developed on the platform. Microsoft has finally embraced the cloud it appears, exemplified by a [...]
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11 March 2010
“A breath of fresh air” was what I experienced as I spoke to the CEO of a new, young, innovative emerging company in the IT sector recently. It seemed like the innovation, the new idea and the feeling of being the firsts in any segment can keep energies at a high for a long time [...]
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11 March 2010
Fortune magazine is out with its annual list of the world’s most admired companies.The survey was conducted across 4,100 executives,directors,and analysts.Little wonder it is that Apple tops the list.Google is at second place, although the gap between the top 2 is considerable. In a world under the impact of the global recession, trust and integrity took [...]
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10 March 2010
Here is an example that Gawande cites on the impact a simple checklist had in the ICU of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US. A critical care specialist, Peter Pronovost, decided to use a checklist of one aspect of ICU management- controlling central line infections. It was a 5 step process. Provonost made the nurses [...]
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Sudha Kumar: Two companies I admire a lot are 1. Reliance ( the...
Ramya: The knee jerk reaction to checklists could be that...
Gayatri: Another driver for innovation is the need to make ...
Ramya: Krishna, among Indian companies,
I admire ICICI...
Raji: Yes. The example shows how they have identified a ...
