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NASSCOM Global Leadership Award Winners February 15, 2008
The setting was the spacious Hyatt Ground and the open air atmosphere gave a special aura to the award ceremony.
There were three major awards and fittingly enough, the awards went to three major stalwarts. Unfortunately, none of the winners could be present at the event to accept their awards. Their CIOs did the honors.
Here are the award winners.
The Business Leader Award was won by Mr.Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways. Willie Walsh is steering British Airways, the world’s largest airline network, covering over 550 global destinations. The airline has been flying to India since the 1920s and has been engaging with leading Indian IT-BPO partners for the last 15 years. Using state-of-the-art IT solutions provided by its internal team and close-knit family of technology providers, BA has been able to reduce the cost of its IT operations; right-size its workforce; revolutionize travel for customers; web-enable its booking; and absorb network, storage and processing increases.
The Business Leader Award was won by Mr.John Chambers, Chairman of Cisco. As leader of Cisco, John Chambers has virtually redefined the way business is done in the Internet age. His focus on technology, innovation and talent development have made him a global business leader. At the same time, Mr. Chambers has been committed to making Cisco a major player in the Indian market. It is his vision and unwavering commitment that we wish to acknowledge and recognize through the NASSCOM Business Leadership Award.
And finally, the Global Indian Award was won by Mr.Ratan Tata. Ratan is a luminary who has brought fame and glory to India and made us all very proud. His vision and leadership across industry–IT, telecom, automotive, steel and hospitality has made India synonymous with innovation and quality. The man behind the company’s biggest recent coup—the cheapest car in the world, the Nano—has virtually put India’s automobile sector on the international map. Being lauded as a path-breaking design innovation, the Nano has captured the imagination of the world.
Reviewing Tarun Khanna’s Book, ‘Billions of Entrepreneurs’ February 15, 2008
China and India are home to one-third of the world’s population. And they’re undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds–and money–of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China’s and India’s trajectories of development. He shows where these trajectories overlap and complement one another–and where they diverge and compete. He also reveals how Western companies can participate in this development.
Each chapter compares China and India on a broad range of factors in entrepreneurship, including access to capital, freedom and reliability of information, governmental involvement, and infrastructure. Khanna examines the landscape of big, medium, and small entrepreneurship, including rural health-care initiatives and even Bollywood.
He also describes how indigenous and foreign entrepreneurs could get a foothold, how China and India relate to their own diasporas, and how entrepreneurial activity is reshaping both countries for the better.
Engaging and incisive, this book is a critical resource for anyone working in China or India or planning to do business in these two countries.
You can listen to the podcast or read his interview at Harvard’s Working Knowledge website.
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School in the Strategy group. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the Journal of International Business Studies. He works with entrepreneurs, companies, and NGOs in emerging markets worldwide. In 2007, he was elected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
The 5 Things That I Did Not Know About Egypt February 14, 2008
Last night’s glitzy Leadership Award ceremony was sponored by Egypt’s equivalent of NASSCOM, the ITIDA (Information Technology Industry Development Agency). I got to pick up one of their booklets where they had outlined the advantages that their country has to offer in the realm of IT. Here are 5 points that caught my fancy.
1) Egypt has one of the World’s lowest telecom costs
2) World Bank has named Egypt as the leading global economic reformer in 2007 driven by tax, customs adn financial sector reforms.
3) Egypt has a unique multilingual English, French, German Italian adn Spanish speaking talent pool, thanks to its geographic proximity to Europe.
4) Egypt is emerging as a key partner location for the Indian outsourcing sector. I was surprised to know that Satyam and Wipro have already set up their facilities there. Multinationals like Unilever, Vodafone, IBM, Microsoft, P&G are already there.
5) Egypt has one of the lowest attrition.
And here I am who kept thinking that all that Egypt has to offer is the Spinx and the pyramids!
A CIO’s Insight on Building and Managing Strategic Partnerships February 14, 2008
Anthony Abbattista is the Vice-President, technology solutions at AllState Insurance company that outsources a lot of work to India. They deal with multiple partners and from his many years of experience here and earlier at Accenture, offers the following advice to corporates looking at managing partnerships. Here are the four points he highlighted as important at the panel discussion on managing partnerships at the Leadership Forum.
- Whether services or products, strategic partnership requires a culture of commitment.
- Start small and scale fast.
- Choose companies that you feel comfortable working with. Relationship is everything.
- Must be willing to change ourselves and existing practices.
Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe-Mark Mayo, TPI February 13, 2008
Mark Mayo, Partner President, Global Resources Management, TPI spoke at the Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe session on day one at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008.
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Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe -Sudhakar Ram, Mastek Ltd February 13, 2008
Sudhakar Ram, Chairman and Managing Director, Mastek Ltd at the Csession on day one at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008.
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Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe-Sanjiv Puri, ITC Infotech February 13, 2008
Sanjiv Puri, Managing Director, ITC Infotech spoke on Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008 on the 13th Feb, 2008.
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Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe-Ashank Desai, Mastek Ltd February 13, 2008
Mr. Ashank Desai, Founder, Mastek Ltd. gave a presentation at the Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe on 13th Feb, 2008 at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008.
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Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe-Simon Ormston, BT Global Services February 13, 2008
Simon Ormston, Head, Outsourcing Marketing, BT Global Services shared his views on Changing Focus: Shifting sights from America to Europe on day one at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008.
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Building ICT Trade in Asia Pacific - Looi Kien Leong,1001 Technologies SDN BHD, Malaysia February 13, 2008
Looi Kien Leong, Founder and Executive Chairman,1001 Technologies SDN BHD, Malaysia spoke at Building ICT Trade in Asia Pacific on 13th Feb, 2008 at the India Leadership Forum 2008.
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