Archives: December 2006

What Companies Owe Their Employees

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 27, Categories: outsourcing

Over the Christmas weekend I spent time with two people who see the writing on the wall: their jobs are likely to be outsourced and off-shored to India. In both...

Wake-Up Call to India

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 26, Categories: India

Here's a comment from P.A. Zarami that came in over the weekend that really hit me hard. It's a wake-up call to the Indian tech services industry. Rather than leave...

Bangalore Gone Wild

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 22, Categories: India

This is kind of a late-blooming story, but worth the wait. Remember those reports of civil unrest in Bangalore last April when Indian film actor Raj Kumar died? A bunch...

Lions and tigers and bears...

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 15, Categories: India

When I was in India last month (for a month), I did a bunch of book publicity appearances in addition to a bunch of reporting for BusinessWeek. Most of these...

Inside Cisco's Bangalore play

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 13, Categories: India

I caught up today with Wim Elfrink, Cisco's senior vice president and chief globalization officer. That's his new title since he took charge of setting up a new campus in...

Where science and engineering meet

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 08, Categories: Research

The Indian IT services companies are often beaten up for not innovating enough—at least when it comes to products and technologies. And TCS’ experience with basic research shows just how...

Satyam's Raju holds forth

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 07, Categories: India

Ramalinga Raju runs Satyam, one of the top five Indian software services outfits, but his profile is much lower than that of leaders such as Premji, Murthy, and Nilekani. He...

An opportunity for India and the US to come together

Posted by: Steve Hamm on December 01, Categories: India

India faces a slew of business challenges, including its infrastructure deficit, salary inflation in the IT sector, and high attrition rates in IT and BPO. But perhaps its biggest HR...