According to the US Small Business Administration, Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) accounted for 65% of the new jobs created from 1993 to 2009; 9.8 million of the 15 million new jobs created during this period were on account of …
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As per The Wall Street Journal, “The improving prospects for the (US) manufacturing sector — which is so large, it would be the world’s ninth-largest economy if it were a country — are becoming a hot topic.” News about manufacturing …
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Although economic uncertainties continue in many pockets of the world, the next billion consumers are expected to drive ~$10 trillion towards global GDP by 2020. By the end of this decade, global GDP is expected to grow 40% to $90 …
Ignore innovation at your own risk or peril. Highly successful companies have the unique ability to continually leverage the innovation band wagon, irrespective of whether they have created the discontinuity or not. The tsunami caused by delay, avoidance or ignorance …
The recent announcement by President Obama in creating the “Start-up America Partnership” is a great step in re-emphasizing that one of the most important and core element of economic growth is through creating an environment of significantly increasing the investments …
“No Nation should assume that their path to prosperity is simply paved with exports to America.” – Mr. Obama’s statement at the recently concluded G20 Summit at Seoul may simply be a bit late. As the power of emerging economies …
Indian Engineering and R&D (ER&D) is coming off age and doing so far more rapidly now to create its own identity within the overall IT segment. Engineering and R&D Services is a ~ $10 B industry and approx 20% of …
Read a thought provoking article written by “Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove in the recent issue of Business Week ( July 5th, 2010) on “How to make an American Job”. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories I must say, it’s an intense depiction of …
Participating at World Economic Forum (WEF) Europe at Brussels early this month ( May 10/11) was quiet an experience. It’s a phenomenal platform for global leaders from govt., public, social, business etc. to come together to share their experience, express …
Risk-Reward (R2) partnership has caught on to be among the key discussions in the Global IT services business – more so in the Engineering and R&D services wrt technology and product companies. Having implemented this over the last couple of years …
Excerpt from my talk at the panel discussion organized by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute ; held at The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco on Nov 23rd, 2009 I want to take this opportunity to thank Bay Area Council Economic …
The incredible pace with which facebook and twitter have become part of our life in the last 1-2 years; has demonstrated the mainstream arrival of social networking. It is moving away from being cool tools, only for teenagers and Generation …
How does the world change and change so fast. From a free economy in US, where Govt had very little role to play other than setting rules and regulations ; to a time, that would not leave too many options …
2008 will be known as the year of all round mess in the economy and bail-outs – Banking and Financial Institutions leading the downward spiral, the sub-prime mess, credit crunch, irregularities and scandals ; housing crisis adding to the level …
I had talked about Consolidation being one of the main themes in IT Strategic Sourcing couple of weeks back. The last 5+ weeks of development in the financial worlds, have started to show its impact to the rest of the …
Like All Hands on the deck, Enterprise companies are putting everything on the table when planning the next phase of IT Strategic Sourcing. There are some early indicators on 3 main theme that are likely to become more prominent as …
I participated in a panel discussion in Denver in Aug 08, organized by CSIA and shared my views on four key themes that are emerging in IT strategic sourcing discussions – Collaboration, Community, Governance and Results, In short lets call …