Category: Articles by Sandeep

The swell of Innovation waves

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

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Convergence – bringing life together

Given that your smart phone can be used to control your car, make payments for your shopping, or work as an entertainment device, convergence is certainly closer to us than we think. Devices are becoming platforms rather than point products;

Celebrate life and create more birthdays*…

Listening to stories from people impacted by cancer at an event organized by American Cancer Society (Discovery Ball 2011, Chicago ) was extremely emotional and touching. They shared stories of loved and dear ones : father, mother, brother, sister, husband,

Leadership… Stand up and be counted… Cricket and Anti-Corruption

April 2nd , 2011 – Around 10.45 pm, Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni hit a confident and fantastic Sixer and the entire country erupted with joy… After a gap of 28 years Indians have just again become the world cricket

Culture of innovation in the emerging economies

The need for innovation from the emerging economies is well established. 70% of the incremental GDP growth expected over the next ten years will come from there. If the future of incremental growth is with the emerging economies , it’s only

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Generation Y – making an impact…

Generation Y is Generation Is… Living it, experiencing it, making a mark, taking bold decisions and complete responsibilities, leveraging digital world to help them connect and driving higher level of motivation, conviction and willingness to succeed – meet Vidhya, a

Much needed… Start-up America

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

Parallel lines meeting? Time to zoom ahead…

The standard knowledge on parallel lines is that they meet only at infinity. Rarely do we question what is normally seen to be the basic fact. Do we ever stop to ask the question – are they parallel lines in

Fed’s action on $ 600 Billion – a view point

“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

Courage and Conviction – Salute 33

23 days and counting… May be another 3-4 months before any ray of sunlight touches them and they meet with their loved ones… holed up 2250 feet below the earth surface… I salute the trapped 33 Chilean miners – all

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Indian Engineering and R&D Services Industry

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

US Jobs

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

WEF Europe – key observations

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

The Journey Continues…

It was like this over 25 years ago when I did a similar journey with my father… the one that I have just completed with my son…. first trip to the university, where I would join and spend next 4

Risk-Reward Partnership – Some Key Attributes

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

Global Indian Citizen

Last week ( Jan 9th, 2010 ), Time of India carried out an article on the statement made by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India , “Addressing the 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Singh said, “I recognize the legitimate desire

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Bay Area and India

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

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Winning

Yesterday, I attended a celebratory dinner meeting with our best team of the quarter and I was not only thrilled that they really really rock but more importantly was very pleased that this team has made winning as a sustainable

Category: Articles by Sandeep

The swell of Innovation waves

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

Tagged with: , , ,

Convergence – bringing life together

Given that your smart phone can be used to control your car, make payments for your shopping, or work as an entertainment device, convergence is certainly closer to us than we think. Devices are becoming platforms rather than point products;

Celebrate life and create more birthdays*…

Listening to stories from people impacted by cancer at an event organized by American Cancer Society (Discovery Ball 2011, Chicago ) was extremely emotional and touching. They shared stories of loved and dear ones : father, mother, brother, sister, husband,

Leadership… Stand up and be counted… Cricket and Anti-Corruption

April 2nd , 2011 – Around 10.45 pm, Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni hit a confident and fantastic Sixer and the entire country erupted with joy… After a gap of 28 years Indians have just again become the world cricket

Culture of innovation in the emerging economies

The need for innovation from the emerging economies is well established. 70% of the incremental GDP growth expected over the next ten years will come from there. If the future of incremental growth is with the emerging economies , it’s only

Tagged with: ,

Generation Y – making an impact…

Generation Y is Generation Is… Living it, experiencing it, making a mark, taking bold decisions and complete responsibilities, leveraging digital world to help them connect and driving higher level of motivation, conviction and willingness to succeed – meet Vidhya, a

Much needed… Start-up America

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

Parallel lines meeting? Time to zoom ahead…

The standard knowledge on parallel lines is that they meet only at infinity. Rarely do we question what is normally seen to be the basic fact. Do we ever stop to ask the question – are they parallel lines in

Fed’s action on $ 600 Billion – a view point

“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

Courage and Conviction – Salute 33

23 days and counting… May be another 3-4 months before any ray of sunlight touches them and they meet with their loved ones… holed up 2250 feet below the earth surface… I salute the trapped 33 Chilean miners – all

Tagged with: ,

Indian Engineering and R&D Services Industry

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

US Jobs

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

WEF Europe – key observations

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

The Journey Continues…

It was like this over 25 years ago when I did a similar journey with my father… the one that I have just completed with my son…. first trip to the university, where I would join and spend next 4

Risk-Reward Partnership – Some Key Attributes

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

Global Indian Citizen

Last week ( Jan 9th, 2010 ), Time of India carried out an article on the statement made by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India , “Addressing the 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Singh said, “I recognize the legitimate desire

Tagged with: , ,

Bay Area and India

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

Tagged with: , ,

Winning

Yesterday, I attended a celebratory dinner meeting with our best team of the quarter and I was not only thrilled that they really really rock but more importantly was very pleased that this team has made winning as a sustainable

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