New BPO Horizons with ITeS
Chairing a conference on HR Outsourcing in Mumbai, earlier this year, I was surprised at the galaxy of speakers and participants who came, saw and concurred with the need for…
Opinion
Knowledge Mobilization
Browsing the Net, I came across an interesting term ‘knowledge mobilization’ in an old article pub-lished in The Manchester Review. It has the same acronym as ‘knowledge management.’ The distinction…
The Budget and Beyond
The Budget announcements for the year, coupled with the usual "State of the Union" speech of the very erudite and eloquent Finance Minister P Chidambaram, would well have been the…
Bandwagon-Without A Driver
During a recent e-gov conference, I was very casually told, by a completely disinterested delegate from the police department, that he does not know how all this is going to…
Nasscom and the Art of Conference Success
Every year, Indian IT gets together to introspect, discuss, analyze and listen to the pundits talk about the state of the world of Information Technology, particularly software. The NASSCOM event,…
The Myth of Video Conferencing
I am writing this column with a sense of guilt. And, a bit of disillusionment too. In the past, several times, we have written about video-conferencing and the great things…