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Those 3 great days at NILF 2009…..
I had a blast attending the NASSCOM India Leadership forum 2009 just concluded in Mumbai and I was one of the active live bloggers and this was my first one and I had a great and a wonderful time.
Emerging Companies need all the help that can come by
Emerging Companies need all the help that can come by – In a developing economy it is generally not the big blue companies that drive the future growth and innovation but it is the small and the emerging companies which creates the future, and it is very critical for the government, society and the trade organizations to nurture and help such companies and provide an infrastructure and an ecosystem which nurtures such a growth and an innovation so that the company mainly worries about the growth, challenges of the market, core business and the way of increasing value to their clients and all other are issues are generally very clear cut and taken care of without a fuss. This is a very common practise in western countries and definitely one of the reasons why we see companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google which happens over there and exactly the same (of lack of it) reason why it never happens in India.
Blogging live @ NASSCOM Leadership Forum in Mumbai
Hi all,
I am attending the NLF 2009 to be held in Mumbai between February 11 and 13th and will be also be blogging live the same. Below is the related blog I wrote for the forum:
http://indialeadershipforum.nasscom.in/blog/2009/01/looking-forward-for-live-blogging-the-event/
Hope to see many of you over there
Manjunath M Gowda, S7 Software
Hey, Who is in your team?
Hey, Who is in your team?
BTW Word of Caution – I won’t guarantee any expected flow in the blog and might waver from very disparate fields!!! Please note that I am not an expert in the subject and I will pen my experiences and my perception of the whole topic. Expert comments are welcome – positive, negative – any and all are fine J
Terror, Terror and Terror…………
Terror, Terror and Terror
I guess that’s what is there on everyone’s mind today – feeling very livid and very helpless as we can’t do much other than sparing a moment about the whole tragedy, the innocent victims who laid their lives and may be lighting a candle. Feels very upset over the sad state of affairs.
Entrepreneurship and the Marathon
Entrepreneurship and the Marathon
I know many people in their talks, essays and articles keep comparing entrepreneurship to running long distances or what we say marathons. Many a times I used to wonder why, I myself is a avid long distance runner – used to run 20kms and not I have sort of scaled down to 10, nevertheless long distance and I had an opportunity to do the same today too and this thought occurred to me again and I started drawing similarities.
Time is money so they say, Time is Respect, Time is Everything
I was in London couple of weeks back. This was my first London visit and fortunately had done enough home work (on the internet) and hence trying to figure out Tube (the Subway train) and the busses wasn’t a problem right from the moment I arrived there. I took a Saturday off and went to sightseeing in London in a guided tour; London is beautiful and I am very impressed with the public transport and how traveller friendly it is. What I was more impressed was the time sense the guide showed – let me share the experience. We were 23 in total, people all from various countries and various walks of life, and guide would explain the whole history behind a building, event etc and used to let loose us (for photo ops, refreshments etc) but used to say you have to come back at a given time, say quarter past 11 and he *meant* quarter past 11 and few people of course would not appear and he instead of either waiting or complaining about them, would clap for all those who came on time and would wait just for couple of minutes and used to say “I am sure they would have found something which is worthwhile than this and we moved on. Remember every loss of a tourist would cut into his tips at the end but still time is time for him and because of his attitude we saw everything in London what we had planned for the day, but we were 5 less when we finally reached the hotel back. This is how *time* works here and so in most developed countries.
EmergeOut Conclave: It is a Crime…………
(This is about the EmergeOut conclave we had in the last week of September 2008, in Delhi)
(The whole blogging on emerge out is pretty stale now I guess as stale as talking about India’s win in Mohali – too stale 
nevertheless let me give my point of view!!)
My Experiences with NASSCOM delegation to UK and Ireland
My Experiences with NASSCOM delegation to UK and Ireland
Sorry for a long gap between my Blogs as I have been travelling a lot, a week in Delhi for the NASSCOM emerge out conclave (it was just one day but it coincided with my kids vacation and hence took the week off to see Delhi and Agra) and another 10 days in UK as part of the NASSCOM delegation.
Will the SOA services be like this one day?
Please do refer to my latest article which got published on enterprise.in and here is the link and this should serve as an introduction to what I am going to discuss in the ensuing paragraph.
http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Opinion/SOA_Redefining_Software_Deployment/551-91286-444.html
