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Management Lessons from Thirukkural
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Sep 14, 2008, 3:57 am
Six years back, I revisited an ancient Tamil literary work (circa 500 BC – 200 BC) with a view to seeing if it retained any relevance today.
Considering this work is reputed to be 2000+ years old, I was surprised (and humbled) to see that some verses retained relevance in today’s modern context... Comment - Like
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Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
What is Accenture up to in India? Is it differentiated from the Indian vendors or has it fallen into the commodity trap?
The answer in mixed. Accenture reports its revenues under two heads: Consulting and Outsourcing. In 2007, Consulting accounted for 60% of its $19.7 billion revenue with outsour... Comment - Like
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Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I am inclined to believe that the ongoing global financial sector crisis is a great growth opportunity for the Indian IT service companies and more so for BPO companies.
The following alert from AMR Research confirms this thinking:
Despite the uncertainty and current economic gloom, these really a... Comment - Like
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Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
In an earlier post, I had posited that Indian software vendors need to make themselves accountable for final results. Signs of that happening are begining to show now with Satyam making the move to outcome-based billing:
In a bid to earn higher revenues from transformational outsourcing contracts,... Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The idea of applying a balanced scorecard to measure IT effectiveness is not new, but not many IT organizations have put this idea into practice successfully.
The key to operationalizing this idea is the ability to clearly see the linkage between IT objectives (as seen by a CIO) and overall busines... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
This is a company that workup to the India story rather late but having woken up, is making up for lost time!
After getting nowhere with an organic India growth attempt, Capgemini recognized the need for inorganic growth. And they zeroed in on Kanbay.
With its specialization in financial services,... Comment - Like
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Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
It’s happening finally. The focuse in the software services industry is shifting from the “software” part to the “services” part.
Wipro Infotech launches hospital info system
BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business arm of Wipro, has launched a hospital informatio... Comment - Like
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Kishore's Law of Capacity Leasing
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Today’s newspaper made interesting reading:
The front page bannered the ongoing sell-off of India captives by MNCs:
On the other hand, the following captive story appears on Page 6:
At least one captive is getting it right!
To me, this indicates there is nothing inherently wrong with captives.... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here is a company – Mindlogicx – which is poised on the threshold of SaaS in India:
intelliEXAMS is a state of the art system to revolutionize the entire examination process by diligently meeting the requirements of a university in conducting online examination. The system handles the complete ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The elephant continues to dance, and very elegantly at that!
In this ad, IBM is trying to generate new demand for its products and services by identifying and placing before government and industry, problem areas that could be impacted positively by technology:
The second annual Global Retail Thef... Comment - Like
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Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here is the Ninth Commandment:
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Twelve Principles of Agile Software, The Agile Manifesto
Oh well, continuous attention to technical excellent and good design is certainly desierable and nobody can deny that. And it w... Comment - Like
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Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here is the Tenth Commandment:
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
- The Twelve Principles of Agile Software, The Agile Manifesto
This is yet another motherhood statement in the same league as “you should have a motivated team” (Commandment V) and ... Comment - Like
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Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I found a lovely structural breakdown of ERP on the Technology Evaluation Centers web site. Their motivation in breaking down ERP is to compare multiple ERP products in a meaningful fashion.
While the TEC web site uses a tree control to allow users to navigate through the capabilities of ERP softw... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
After a short five months, thanks to all you readers, this blog has crossed 10,000 hits today!
My sincere thanks to all of you! Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I have found the concept of communication paths in UML deployment diagrams to be quite frustrating for the simple reason that a communication path connects two deployment targets and no more than two. In other words, communication paths do not support the familiar concept of a “bus” / LAN /... Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Deployment models, while being very expressive, are not easy to organize and manage. Any non-trivial deployment model would require a multitude of devices, execution environments and artifacts (and multiple instances of these) which typically makes the organization of a deployment model somewhat h... Comment - Like
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Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Imagine no deadlines
I wonder if you can
No need for plans or schedules
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the pain
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will code as one
- The Agile Anthe... Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Agile Manifesto says:
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Thank you very much. Much obliged.
While their intentions are good, Agile Methodists’ methods simply do not sound appropriate to enterprise-class software development.
The A... Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here is the Twelfth Commandment:
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
- The Twelve Principles of Agile, The Agile Manifesto
Really? Are you quite sure? Oh my! What can I say!
Team reflecting on how to become m... Comment - Like
Kishore Kumar posted an article on
Advanced UML Tutorial
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here is the Eleventh Commandment:
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
- The Twelve Principles of Agile Software, The Agile Manifesto
This begs the question what is a self-organizing team? In the absence of a definition of this term I went Googling... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Let us take a look at EDS now.
After struggling to bootstrap an India capacity for many year, EDS acquired the Indian vendor MphasiS, whose strength in business process outsourcing is formidable
Earlier this year, EDS was acquired by HP, creating a behemoth that could rival IBM [With EDS, HP Buys... Comment - Like
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