Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Lessons for IT from Nano, Jet and Grameen Bank- Software-Infotech-The Economic Times

Lessons for IT from Nano, Jet and Grameen Bank- Software-Infotech-The Economic Times

Interesting article looking forward on the opportunities before Indian IT companies. But what this article is missing to highlight is that many MNCs have already moved in a big way into India, so how would the mix and match their expertise with local skills is to be seen.

Service industry is still very interesting and lot to innovate. Share your views on this!!!

Partha

Saturday, April 19, 2008

When Speed Was King: Vinod Dham and the Birth of the Pentium

Pentium and Intel Inside are considered to be the most well made branding exercise. It is interesting to hear from the person behind these and his views on the challenges ahead for the organisation like Intel.

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Cricket in India: Moving Into a League of Its Own

Sport marketing is an interesting area, nice to see one happening right before our eyes. IPL and ICL are good things to happen to Cricket, but what scares me is the amount of money that is involved in IPL. Why? When stakes are high, it creates a lot of tension in the system. Is the system ready for it? Not sure. Key concerns would be- Twenty20 is a good format but it has not been fully tested yet, so why invest so much in it?- Players are yet to become completely professional, so would be interesting to see how they manage working with private owners- Audience are confused is it cricket that is marketed or the experience that is marketed!!!Hope in the end cricket come out better on the whole.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Starting the blog

I have been blogging for quite sometime, today I thought of starting to share my views in public!! So testing my blog.