Retail Derail
So Tangerine has decided to call it a day. The pioneer of IT retailing in the country with the largest chain of computer showrooms has withdrawn from retailing. As Om…
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Lew Platt’s Fix-IT Plan For Hewlett-Packard
For years, CEO Lewis E Platt has used his annual management-review meeting to warn Hewlett-Packard Company’s executives not to get sloppy. After all, the company was growing at more than…
“The effort will now be to ensure that the hardware sector gets what it deserves from the investors.”
—Ram N Agarwal, President, MAIT. The annual change of guard at the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has put Ram N Agarwal, President, Wipro Peripherals, at the helm as…
The Changing Landscape
The information technology sector has been the breeding ground of garage outfits both in India and the rest of the world. Many of today’s IT giants were once small teams…
Fumbling For Fortunes
Do a spot poll on CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and they will unanimously rate 1997-98 as the year that called for all their wit and skills to turn it…
Destination India
It is an oft-told story. That of a price war in the PC segment. One that happens with clockwork regularity, around the year, every year. Last year was no different….