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The GOAL and the way of achieving it!!
The GOAL and the way of achieving it…….
First of all let me take this opportunity to express my happiness over S7 Software being selected as the leader of NASSCOM Emerge 50 2009, we are all very excited and feeling déjà vu but had a great party too to celebrate the same. Want to thank NASSCOM and all involved for making this such a great success. Thank You!!
The Mc-D model
I was browsing my favorite newspaper, “the Wall Street Journal” and I came across this piece of news which sort of stopped me for a moment – “Your Bad luck is a windfall for airlines” and what I gathered is that your ticket cancellation, preponement, postponement or any such arrangements yields airlines a whopping $2 billion a year, much more than what they earn for baggage services and a simple search shows that a typical airlines makes around $15 billion. So if you add all these ticket alteration revenues, baggage revenues and all other value added service revenues, I am sure will come to a huge % of the total revenues but still one perceives that airline makes most of its money via the ticket sales.
“To attend a Tradefair or not?” that is the question
First of all sorry for being on a long hiatus from the blog world. Various reasons, most important was my long trip to US to meet various leads and clients and that took pretty much all of my time to prepare and present etc and then as soon as I was back, there were few clients visiting us and all my time was gone there but should not have been a reason to keep away from Blog 
“Don’t be an Idiot, you can’t do business here”
“Don’t be an Idiot, you can’t do business here”
This is the exact statement supposed to have uttered by Nandan Nilekani’s uncle when he announced that he and six others will start Infosys way back in 1981!!!!
EoC2 – a Roaring Success
Just back from the EoC2 (Emerge out Conclave 2) meet. This time it was in Chennai (the first one was held in Delhi last year) and I could feel a lot more energy and enthusiasm. Chennai NASSCOM unit rocks for sure.
I had a great day. The whole event was blogged and hence I will not reinvent the wheel and cover some of the aspects what I saw or perceived.
Let us Emerge Out!! Help me to get the best out of them
NASSCOM is doing the second edition of “EmergeOut Conclave” in Chennai on 29th April and I would request all of you guys to participate and I can guarantee that you will pick up something or other, atleast one valuable thing which probably will have the potential to take your firm to new heights. I attended the first one in Delhi and I really liked the seminar where you got to hear some of the great pearls of advice from some of the eminent IT personalities who have had been like us in the SME segment and have successfully emerged out today. I think I picked up few pearls infact and have already helped my company (S7 Software) in many ways.
Carbon Tax?
Carbon Tax?
I am not an expert in the green stuff but off lately I have been doing a lot of research on this especially the implications of green on IT and what effect it will have on IT migrations for a corporate (as we @ S7 Software focus mainly around migration and re-engineering domain)).
Damn it – it all makes sense!!!!
Damn it!!! It all Makes Sense
I was jogging in the morning last week or so, and lot of issues just popped in front of me about the recent terror attack on SL team in Lahore and how can they just shoot and escape so easily especially when they were promised security of the highest standards. That too no casualties to the SL team other than minor injuries even though they were lame ducks and could have easily been killed, all of them.
Sustaining your Company
This was a conference organized recently by TiE Bangalore Chapter with speakers from different spectrum and variety of companies and moderated by Mr. Sanjay Anandaram, TiE Bangalore Charter Member & Managing Director JumpStartUp and our (S7 Software) mentor too in the NASSCOM mentor panel.
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.
