A New Wrinkle on Promoting Innovation

The issues with most Indian companies is that they lay too much emphasis on protocols, time (mostly unproductive) spent by employees in office (inspite of them not doing much while sitting late evening) rather than on appreciating and encouraging innovation. That is where US MNCs score. They have open culture (or at least they start with it till they have people from these companies at managerial positions) and respect and reward for innovation and out of box thinking.

I have believed for some time now that innovation of any kind comes from individuals and not from processes and frameworks. Thats why the obsession of Indian IT companies with processes and frameworks which is perhaps there biggest strength, is also the biggest roadblock they have to innovation. This program is intriguing in the sense that NIIT might be trying to use its biggest strength to target the most troublesome weakness

This company and its parent company NIIT sucks. Its all management thing which is said is these interviews but the fact is that this is the worst company to work for in India and US. Very bad pay master and focusses on getting low paid Indian workers in US, pay them peanuts and play big internal politics with them. The middle and senior management is highly unqualified and they don't even know what they want to achieve. Please stay away from this company - as a employee or as a customer.

In my experience with this company, they spend all their time and money on process, rather than hiring adequately trained resources. The best process with a poor resource nets a poor result and cust. satisfaction. As a current employee, I'll believe it when I see it.

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India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
India is the world’s largest democracy.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The World’s first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
European languages all inherited from India. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
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Long before U.S. even heard of GPS, the art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’.
Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
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Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
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The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
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