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Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers November/December 2009
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and...
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Ariba, Wipro, and the Consultant/Channel Game (Part 1)
Earlier in the week, Ariba announced it was partnering with Wipro Consulting Services in a licensing deal. Ariba’s goal is to get the outsourcing firm’s consulting arm up and running on its sourcing...
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Ariba, Wipro, and the Consultant/Channel Game (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, I provided an explanation of the different channel engagement models in the Spend Management sector, as well as their historical context. In the second part of this...
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Wip-ping sourcing into shape with Suresh Vaswani
If anyone had told you a few years ago that Wipro would have a market cap of more than $30bn, you would have made a few discreet calls to their doctor, or perhaps their math teacher. But today, the...
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Research Report: Microsoft Partners – Before Adopting Azure, Understand the...
It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10 Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this...
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Are BPO newcomers running out of gas?
We’ve been wallowing in white papers, plied with PowerPoint and overwhelmed with oratory, but despite all the chest-pumping, the very latest market picture of F&A BPO sends us one very clear...
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Will India’s desire for short-term profit trump the need to re-invest beyond...
You won’t see a CEO being removed after achieving a double-digit growth rate too often, but that’s just what happened, when Wipro’s co-chiefs Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe stepped down last week....
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Monday’s Musings: Q1 2011 State of Social CRM and CRM From An EMEA Point Of View
Greeting from London! It’s been a great surprise to enjoy the sunny and warm weather (by UK standards) as I readjust my body clock. Thankfully, I’ve had a chance to catch up with a few new and old...
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Monday’s Musings: Thoughts On How Indian Infotech Companies Can Lead Instead...
Disruptive Technologies Remain Top Of Mind Among Business Technology Leaders It’s always a privilege and a pleasure to reach out to clients and prospects around the world. For those tracking my...
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A tale of two FAO markets: Accenture dominates the enterprise, while IBM...
We’re shortly going to release our 2011 Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) industry landscape, and one dynamic that has really stood-out over the last three years, is the different competitive...
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Who’s rising above the W-I-T-C-H hunt?
Have you been observing the fascinating scramble going on over in India for supremacy in the IT services space? By the time this year is out, it’s highly likely that Cognizant will have leapfrogged...
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The World’s Most Ethical Software Companies: What They All Have in Common
Earlier this month The Ethisphere Institute announced their seventh annual list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. Jacquelyn Smith wrote an excellent analysis titled The World’s Most Ethical...
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Who’s rising above the W-I-T-C-H hunt?
Have you been observing the fascinating scramble going on over in India for supremacy in the IT services space? By the time this year is out, it’s highly likely that Cognizant will have leapfrogged...
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Six market disruptions coming to challenge the Indian services majors
Gravy trains invariably come to a halt at some stage in their journey, and labor-driven IT and business services, fueled by lower wage regions and robust delivery models are poised to change beyond all...
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Event Report: The @Wipro @FT Dinner, Man vs Machine, Does It Have To Be...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One of the big topics at Davos has been the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots. Discussions focus less on the technological...
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Big Brains focused on Big Things
Five years ago, I heard Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE use the term Industrial Internet of locomotives, wind turbines, aircraft engine and MRI scanners to differentiate from the Consumer Web that Apple....
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DefCon 2: Cloud and Digital Service Providers
Wipro is acquiring Appirio. Congratulations to my friends at Appirio which I have profiled in many of my blog posts and books as a cloud pioneer. But the move needs to come with a warning. The Appirio...
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Infosys in a world of Amazon, Workday and Foxconn
Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO of Infosys. In a blog post he says “It is clear to me that despite our successes over the last three years, and the powerful seeds of innovation that we have sown, I...
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SAP and Outsourcers: Fool me twice, shame on me
I am often asked why I was tough on SAP in SAP Nation. I usually correct them and say I was tough on SAP’s partners and how SAP did a poor job monitoring and managing them. I must say I groaned when I...
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Implementation Groundhog Day
I was recently introduced to Bonnie Tinder, founder of Raven Intel. Her startup is on a mission to “quantify the quality” of HCM implementation projects, especially the role of the SI partner. As her...
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