Managing in Turbulent Times: by CK Prahalad
15 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Event Updates, Indian IT industry, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesWhat a fitting event to end to the whole program. It was a great one by CK. To be honest he was not at his best, I have heard him before (@ Interops last year) – I guess all that travel and jetlag and also the anxiety of catching the return flight in couple of hours from them didn’t help either I guess. Nevertheless was really good one and very informative. Let me summarize the points I got in the ensuing paragraphs. more
Doing more with less – how outsourcing players are going green?
14 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Indian IT industry, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updates, greenBy Chris Mines of Forrester, Paul Coby, British Airways and Sanjiv Puri, ITC infotech and chaired by MR Rangaswamy of Sandhill. more
Shashi Tharoor awed the crowd – just unbelievable!!!
14 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updates(Mr. Tharoor is former UN Under Secretary General, Fellow USC Center on Public Diplomacy). What a way to start the day with the spotlight with Tharoor. The last whole two days was spent in doom and gloom and were taught ways to tackle the deep impending recession and all being worried about how to keep our high paying jobs, that luxury lifestyle, those rich luxury cars and what not and then comes Tharoor who very subtly got us to the reality of what India is what % of population is below poverty line, and what % of people can afford 3 square meals and how we had to explicitly ship gold out of our harbor to repay the loan, how getting a land line was a luxury, the socialism that existed, the burecracy and the license raj and how people suffered for 4 ½ decades after independence for a proper job and how restless people got due to lack of a job, how subsidies killed the economy and how India became a land of paradoxes, the queues, lack or productivity etc etc and how life changed in the next 10 to 15 years and how comfortable people are living today after the liberalization – listening to all these I don’t think Indians should worry about the recession atall and does not mean that capitalism or liberalization failed and in fact it is the reverse, more and more Indians got employed and has empowered each one them to an extent business has been doing good for all. more
Day 3 @ NILF – what to expect and what are exciting?
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Event Updates, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesHi good morning everyone. I am glad to be back to the 3rd and final day @ NILF. Had such a lovely experience in both the spotlight sessions yesterday – one in the morning by Narayan Murthy and one in the evening by Pankaj Ghemawat, just makes all the time and energy you spent to come here worthwhile. more
Not quite flat out for growth: a hard new look at the economics of global sourcing by Pankaj Ghemawat
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Indian IT industry, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesThis session was really refreshing one and I was confident about this session as I have had read articles of Pankaj in Harvard Business Review and they were all very top class and was in fact looking forward for this one. more
No Geek, all Latin – where will CTOs spend their $$$ over the next three years
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, PresentationsBy Mike Connly of United Health Group, Peter Coffee of SalesForce, Sara Garrison of Sabre Holding. Peter talked about how new investments are going to be in cloud and he explained how cloud technology is far better than the existing on-premise technology and even explained the “0-1-infinity” model of the cloud which I have covered in one of my other blogs. The figures he showed are that 62% will use SaaS this year and 68% project SaaS in vertical applications in the next 2 years. more
Emerging Verticals – the Road best travelled – Looking for the new sunrise sectors
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesBy - Bharath Desai of Syntel, Samantha Covell of BT and Lemuel Lasher of CSC.Bharath informed that adopting to new geographies, opening of new markets, pushing local products in global markets. more
Financial Services Sourcing: Transformations and Strategies
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesBy Jack Jones of JP Morgan Chase, David Legg of Morgan Stanley and NRK Raman of Oracle financial services. Nothing of Financial services were discussed but speakers pretty much used the opportunity to sell their companies and how they are doing extremely good, their numbers and growth charts and how other countries are also coming up as competitors for India etc. more
On C level, making the most of the crisis
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesBy Harsh Mangalik, Chairman and Managing Director of Accenture India, Suresh Vaswani, Joint CEO WIPRO, Sudhakar Ram, SMO Mastek and Salil Capgemini India. Let me summarize very briefly as it was not that interesting session in my opinion as all of them instead of stressing on how to make most of it were instead spent time on talking about how the crisis is bad and usual steps to prevent it. Some of the few things I heard which are worth mentioning are more
NRN says current recession will take at least 18 months to recover
13 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Indian IT industry, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesMorning spotlight by N R Narayan Murthy (NRN) with chair person as Jerry Rao was very refreshing and what a way to start the day. I was of course sitting in the first row specially reserved for us the bloggers (thanks to Avinash Raghava @ NASSCOM for all his enthusiasm and help he has rendered – Thank You, Avinash). more
Looking forward for the 2nd day of NILF
12 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Key Tracks, NILF 2009, NILF TeamGood Morning everyone. First day was hectic and 2nd day promises to be more hectic with lot of parallel tracks starting right after the morning session. I am looking forward for the spotlight of the morning, the first session by Narayan Murthy (NRN) – the topic is “How resilience and fundamentals can sustain growth”. more
Ready for Change, Leading for success in a dynamic, complex and sometimes chaotic world venue
12 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesThis was the session delivered by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor of Harvard Business School and considered one of the greatest business thinkers. more
Opening session and key note session by John Chambers of Cisco
12 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF Team, Session and Track updatesI will be very brief in this and I already say my fellow bloggers have done a terrific job covering this. Kiran Karnik, who is center of attraction now, gave the opening speech where he introduced John Chambers of Cisco and how the company grew from $100 million in 1991 to $40 billion in the current year – something what Indian IT industry also grew by the same numbers in the same time. more
Are Software as a Service and Cloud Computing the Future? A (Un) Conference Session
12 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, NILF 2009, NILF TeamThis was conducted by Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, Salesforce.com and our mentor (of S7 Software) and who I consider good friend Sharad Sharma (CEO, Yahoo R&D, India). The session started beautifully with Peter explaining the concept of cloud computing and SaaS and his claim is that it is not in the nascent stage as people tend to believe but already in the very mature stage and people are adopting it at a very fast space. He also claimed that the on-premise software which is part of the existing infrastructure won’t be replaced over night but will be sort of used as a box in the basement to which new cloud computing and SaaS software will be built or used on top with connections done to such on-premise software (Manju, actually we at S7 Software deal mainly with legacy software and conversions and we are already working with many legacy on-premise software and wrapping them up and integrating into cloud solutions and I believe what Peter said here). more
Hard Times, Slow Economy, Sales Slump – will it get worse? Will you survive?
11 Feb 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Delegations, Emerging Markets, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, NILF TeamHard Times, Slow Economy, Sales Slump – will it get worse? Will you survive? more
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Into Mumbai. Finally made it to Mumbai early morning and got into Hyatt for the NILF 2009. There is a huge crowd here already and really nice to meet the fellow bloggers too. The registration is pretty neat with RFID tags and smiling help. Saw Kiran Karnik too. The inaugural session is @ 2pm and looking forward for the same. more
looking forward for live blogging the event……
23 Jan 2009 Author: Manjunath M Gowda In: Delegate Experience, Event Updates, Key Tracks, Keynote Sessions, NILF 2009, Networking - Connect, Speaker InterviewsHello everyone, this is Manjunath M Gowda (aka Manju), CEO, S7 Software signing in for my first blog on the NASSCOM leadership summit scheduled to be held in February in Mumbai. I am very happy to announce that I will be one of the official bloggers (live bloggers) of the summit and I am very excited about the whole event. Actually my first experience as an active blogger and it is always good to have an alternative career(s) considering the way the economy is going :-) My official blog site is s7software.blogspot.com – if anyone wants to take a quick look at it. more
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