June-2002 issue
Cover Story
It’s early Saturday morning, and employees, sporting elaborate headphones and mikes, are already busy on the call floors at the offices of 24/7 Customer.com in Bangalore. A few spill out onto the foyer, nattily dressed, clutching...
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Cover Feature
Conseco Chairman and CEO Gary Wendt made
his name as the star boss of GE Capital Services....
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The forces of globalization are exposing all enterprises to intense competition (including public and non-profit...
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Expected market growth in the BPO space is huge, given the size of the corporate sector in developed economies. What happened...
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When the hype in the press and analyst community surrounding business process outsourcing (BPO) in India really started to pick...
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Business
One of the byproducts of an increasingly technology-driven society is the inevitable migration of computing power from the...
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Henry Ford’s descendants can still see the results of his work on roads throughout the world. The Walton family witnesses...
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In 1999, when General Motors (GM) spun off Delphi Automotive Systems, Ford Motor Co., was watching. Ford did the GM move a year...
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Competition in India’s wireless market is heating up. Sunil Mittal, founder of the Bharti Group, hit the gong at the Bombay...
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Financial advisors routinely recommend that one should own a basket of blue chip companies to avoid some of the risk...
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As telecom service providers in the U.S. and Europe struggle with their balance sheets, eyes are turning to what seems like a...
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While most industries have embraced the use of software to automate their business processes, one major industry has been...
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Now there is an intriguing question to put you on the spot. Why should someone do business with you rather than someone else?...
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View From the Top
After two colorless and ineffectual Prime Ministers, the rise of Atal Behari Vajpayee in 1998 had been a breath of fresh air....
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How do you build and run a global company out of India?
Globalization is critical for the future of any company emanating out...
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Openfile
Many of you may well remember me from my emails five years ago asking you to subscribe to this new magazine: siliconindia. I...
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Sometimes the future comes early. Someone develops a technology that’s ahead of its time. How do they get it out into...
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He made his name as a technology entrepreneur, then shifted to venture capital, and now Raj Singh’s career is again in a...
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A few years ago, the emergence of the Web led to dreams of viewing DVD-quality movies directly off the Internet. Compared to...
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Career Advice
Readers of my earlier article on how best to search for a job in a harsh economic climate felt that it was somewhat...
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My home town of Udaipur in Rajasthan was a small town in the seventies. My father was a doctor in the Government Medical...
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VC Talk
What has been your experience as a VC in Asia?We have been investing in Asia since 1984. The old boy network is very important....
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Any time, anywhere,” is what Rajesh Reddy and Ashok Narasimhan think is the backbone of their latest venture -- July...
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