21 Most Admired Companies Making IT A Competitive Advantage
All enterprises, regardless of what they produce or the services they deliver, are really information businesses. The accuracy, speed and precision of IT systems means the difference between winning or losing customers, keeping supply chains profitable, and solidly translating new concepts into revenue-producing products and services. The world’s best-run services businesses have customer-driven IT as [...]
The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of
Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with
A $ 140 billion services backlog.
A relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts
Deep vertical knowledge in oi…
HP’s Recent Moves – The Strategy Issues Others Should Learn From
What were the business strategies HP was considering in its recent decisions to jettison its tablet and PC businesses? Here are some potential strategies the leadership might have considered.
Genpact spurns its suitors to IT-enable its BPO, with India’s third largest acquisition
So why did Genpact buy Headstrong, in the third-largest acquisition ever made by an India-based provider, since Wipro picked up InfoCrossing for a cool $600m in 2007, and HCL-Axon for a similar sum, the following year? And, most importantly, what does…
Creating Manufacturing Jobs/Broadening a Domestic Supply Base: Jeff Immelt Alone is Not the Answer
Kudos to Bob Ferrari for picking up on President Obama’s appointment of Jeff Immelt as the leader of an updated Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. We’re generally fans of GE and Immelt’s recent honest outburst China…
The speculation over Genpact’s future spells crunch-time for the future of BPO
No one single provider can claim to have impacted the world of BPO with such verve and focus over the last five years, than that of Genpact. During the “boom” years of Finance and Accounting BPO adoption, between 2005 and 2008, the Gurgaon-headquartered firm aggressively pursued nearly every large deal on the table, with a [...]
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 04/09/2010
Iowa, Texas tops [US] in wind power efforts Iowa and Texas lead the nation in wind energy efforts, according to the annual report released Thursday from the American Wind Energy Association. Iowa claims the title for the state with the largest percentage of electricity from wind energy. As of the end of 2009, over 14 [...]
Cisco Will Prove the Model
It’s about that time again when bloggers and pundits start thinking about predictions for the New Year. I took a look at mine for 2009 and was pleased I was correct at least some of the time. One that is coming true, albeit a little later than I had hoped, is this one:
John Chambers [...]
