Innovation
56th Session of the EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on The 5 Steps to innovate Within an organisation by V.R. Ferose, SAP Labs
So, we again have an almost full room at the NASSCOM HQ, with Avinash, introducing Mr. Ferose and the NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0. I am glad to be bringing you LIVE the 56th session which leaves me, with another session to be completing my half century with the EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 :)
Innovation leaders: a breed different from corporate managers
Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath (both taught at a Spring 08 Columbia Business School program I attended) in an HBR article say “Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering customers something they value that competitors don’t have.” And Harsh Mariwala, Chairman & MD, Marico Ltd says, “… innovation is the fountainhead for differentiation.” The importance of innovation in business is clear.
Small & Medium Business (SMB): The Next Frontier: Playing the Long Tail – Talk By Raman Roy at the NASSCOM CEO Forum
Once again, it was Mr Vishnu Dusad who introduced Raman Roy to the participants. A man who really needs no introduction! the Quatrro Chief has many firsts to his name. And certainly not the least among them being a visionary, who is credited to have created half a million jobs for the BPO sector. His bio was so impressive that we were absolutely enthralled, as it was being read out. Raman Roy was even compared to F C Kohli, the father of the Indian IT industry in more ways than one. Mr Roy accepted the praise very gracefully and even remarked on a lighter vein, that he can now look into the mirror with a renewed sense of self respect. He was also rather apologetic and looked quite sheepish, for losing his way and being late. Brilliant raconteur that he is, he went on to share his views, his thought process and what he had learnt over the years at Spectramind, and now at Quatrro.
Merger, Acquisition and Startups : People Issues are Paramount
At some point in their existence, many startups have to confront certain existential questions – about themselves and their future. Some of these typical questions: “Are we on the right track? Are we likely to reach where we wanted to? We need to grow fast but how? Should we acquire and grow? Should we be acquired”?
Revamping Practices
I received a letter by courier yet again last week from a well known financial institution. It took me a while to reach the letter since the envelope in which the letter was enclosed had been fortified by no less than 9 staple pins. In addition, the envelope was tightly sealed with gum and two strips of sticky tape. I finally retrieved the letter but not after some cursing and a bruised finger. This was the nth such letter I had received from the company, complaints notwithstanding!
Year-end euphoria: Dreams for 2010
Before the season of festive good wishes and good resolutions wears out, here’s a list of the policy changes that I would like to happen in the new year, to promote growth and innovation
LIVE Blogging the 54th Session of NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on New Age Marketing for Rapidly Growing Companies
Here I am LIVE blogging the 54th Session of the NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on New age marketing for rapidly growing companies by Mr. Peter Yorke, who is founder and independent consultant at Yorke Communications Private Limited, an organization that builds content as a platform for internal and external communications. Peter strongly believes that the basis for generating leads, building market image or cementing relations with customers and employees is through good and sustained content. Peter was recently Vice President – Marketing and Communications at Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions), a global, Oracle majority owned, financial services software provider. He was directly responsible for the marketing and communications function and ran a virtual and global communications team.
Incubating innovation in India
Creating an ecosystem that incubates and promotes innovation — converting undoubted potential to reality — requires policy intervention and funding by the government.
E-governance: The road less travelled
Mark Twain famously said, “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” Unlike Twain, Prakash Rane, the chief promoter of ABM Knowledgeware, sniffed the opportunity that existed in the e-governance sector early on. At a time when the use of IT in governance was limited, Prakash ventured into the field of e-Governance.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Re-Created at the NASSCOM PRODUCT CONCLAVE
So here I am, LIVE blogging the most interesting session yet at the NASSCOM PRODUCT CONCLAVE (amogst many others though) but here I have a personal bias 
Well, we have a group of people who are fairly well known in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem and the room is full to brim with energy of the entrepreneurs. We have some interesting known names in the panel to be sharing their knowledge with the ecosystem which has been created here in this room.
