Archive for December, 2008
Why Should Software be Accessible to Persons with disabilities?
600 million people with disabilities in the world, 60 million in India alone.
“The Untapped Market”
Innovation and advancement in technology is enabling people with disabilities to realize their potential. Today, a visually impaired person can work with computers using a screen reader! Isn’t that wonderful? But many of us are unaware about this fact. The reason being ‘lack of awareness’ about the needs of people with disabilities and how can technology be helpful in meeting those needs.
Time to Move On?
Last week, I was moderating a TiE Panel in Bangalore with three industry experts who spoke on the subject of how an Entrepreneur-CEO should plan his or her own career. Like any other role in an organization that needs planning, nourishing and systematic care, the role of the CEO also needs the same careful attention.
Transitioning through turbulent times – Talk by Anand Pillai, HCL Technologies
For many years, it was opined that if Dow Jones catches flu, BSE Sensex is at least sure to sneeze. The global meltdown experienced by US and the global economy has had a cascading effect in India, which has resulted in a massive setback of all growth plans for most business houses. The moot question on everyone’s mind is, is it the end of the beginning or merely beginning of the end. Public opinion and intelligensia, keeps oscillating between reluctant optimism and withdrawn pessimism. Realistically of course we are somewhere in between. Irrespective of how strongly or weakly we feel about the slowdown, reality has it that it has affected all of us very deeply and we have been caught off guard. Hence, we thought the time was opportune for us to introspect and try and walk some distance with our members and address the real issue of managing during times of “turbulence”, a word, which was hitherto used only in the parlance of air travel. Mr Anand Pillai of HCL has been around for nearly 26 years and to quote him “has seen through 4 recessionary trends” during his glorious career. We decided to tap into his experience and leave the floor open.
The NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 – Pune Roadshow contd…
Siddharth from iken solutions on the stage now…
It is incubated at IIT Bombay and specializes in intelligent business solutions using AI technologies.
Their first product is mooga which is a comprehensive consumer analytics software. The goal is to provide service customization at the individual level.
It can be used for personalization and recommendation across multiple sectors.
The NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 – Pune Roadshow
Welcome to NASSCOM Innovation awards for startups, 2008. I am Manas Garg, presenting the event LIVE to you as it unfolds.
A Case Study: All e technologies – NASSCOM Mentorship Program
Alletec, a company that provides Enterprise Systems and IT Services including ERP, CRM and SCM to mid sized businesses globally recently participated in NASSCOM’s mentorship programme for emerging companies. Alletec CEO Dr Ajay Mian, himself an industry veteran with over seventeen years of experience, believes that it is a good programme, though he had some suggestions for making it more effective. He spoke to NASSCOM, sharing his experience as a mentee.
NASSCOM Innovation Awards – Delhi roadshow – contd…
The NASSCOM Innovation Awards – Delhi Roadshow, post tea session
Getting on back to some serious business now, I am glad to be LIVE blogging the innovation being showcased by one of the biggest IT giants from India, Infosys. Infosys technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) defines, designs and delivers technology enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. 
Made in India: Featuring TrueKM from Lpcube
TrueKM is a Knowledge Management (KM) product from Chennai-based Lpcube that positions itself as integrated end to end KM platform touching multiple business functions. According to the company’s founder and CEO Lakshman Pillai, TrueKM can provide transformational visibility to people across the organisation by enabling activities as varied as workforce collaboration to personal competency management to management of knowledge assets and activities.
The NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 – Delhi Roadshow
Welcome to the NASSCOM Innovation awards 2008. In the past week the event has taken place at Chennai and Bangalore. Today I present to you LIVE, the Delhi leg of the Innovation awards.
The NASSCOM Innovation awards currently in its fifth edition is a a key initiative by NASSCOM to highlight true innovators in the Indian IT industry. Today we are showcasing six (6) shortlisted companies, who through an interactive session will demonstrate the uniqueness of their product or services, new customer segments, business models etc.
Impact of Global Slowdown on Offshore Outsourcing.
‘The focus in dealing with the slowdown of outsourcing will increasingly be on changes in internal management strategies at firms in India and companies in India should increasingly look to adopt innovative practices from each other to define the next phase of outsourcing’ per advice from Professor Arie Lewin. Dr Lewin, a professor of strategy at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, recently spoke to NASSCOM members about his research on the implications of the financial meltdown on economies that rely on outsourcing.
