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June-2003  issue
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Author: Karthik Sundaram
It is very simple to win a Nobel prize in Physics,” says Eli Goldratt, educator, author, scientist, philosopher, and business leader. “All you need to do is publish a single paper. Only the paper must be of the caliber that when... more>>
Feature
Rahul Chandran
WHEN SHOE MAKER GIANT NIKE HELD A BOTCHED i2 installation responsible for missing its 2000 third quarter estimate, it marked... more>>
Navi Radjou
U.S. firms will spend on average $4.8 billion a year through 2008 to tune their supply network processes. CPG and retail will... more>>
Pradeep Shankar
THERE ARE AS MANY as 500 startups in the supply chain space and I don’t see all of them getting funded in the next round. A... more>>
B.D. Goel
IN TODAY’S COMPETITIVE RETAIL MARKET, RETAILERS need to employ sophisticated methods to flow merchandise from vendors to... more>>
Venkat Ramana
GET THIS. OVER 5.7 MILLION SEA CONTAINERS SLIP IN and out of U.S. ports every year. Over 40 percent of them sail out of Chinese... more>>
Career
Rahul Chandran
IT PROFESSIONALS, WHO ONCE COULDN’T WAIT TO get to the U.S., are now streaming back to India. Some are coming back on... more>>
Liz Ryan
BACK IN THE LATE NINETIES, I could depend on at least one conference every week of the following type: a successful engineer or... more>>
Entrepreneur
Karthik Sundaram
IF ONE WERE TO UNWIND ALL THE INTERCONNECT wires and metal layers of an Intel Pentium 4 chip, and lay them out in a straight... more>>
In My Opinion
Bijal Mehta
Small business owners in the U.S. and throughout the world are growing increasingly frustrated with the inability of the large... more>>
Technology
si Team
In integration. In development. In ASIC. In high tech. Technology Services are delivering immeasurable value by helping... more>>
Pradeep Shankar
AL-NOOR RAMJI, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT and CIO of Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) is busy looking at... more>>
Gopal Raghavan
INDIUM PHOSPHIDE (InP), IS A SEMICONDUCTOR material like silicon that is fast becoming the material of choice for a wide range... more>>
Online Special
Sudhir Anandarao
Largest Financial Crisis for Employers Health care is one of the largest sectors of the U.S economy and accounts for 15% of... more>>
Ruby Sahiwal
In order to remain competitive and improve the bottom-line, companies have adopted the mantra: reduce the costs of doing... more>>
Personal Finance
si Team
WHO: SALIL MEHTA is managing director of Second Curve Capital, a New York based company which he co-founded in 2000. Previously... more>>
Business
Kris Ananthakrishnan
IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU ARE PLANNING TO FAIL. When catastrophe comes calling, do you have a plan of action chalked out, ready... more>>
Vinnie Mirchandani
IN A SURVEY OF INDIAN OFFSHORE VENDORS, most mention financial services and manufacturing SIC codes as their target verticals.... more>>
Dinesh Vaswani
ALTHOUGH FINAL FIGURES ARE STILL BEING COLLATED, over $1.1 billion was invested in venture capital and private equity... more>>
Yatin Patel
IMAGINE THIS: YOU OPEN AN ACCOUNT IN A MAJOR search engine by charging $10 to your credit card. You then place highly focused... more>>
VC Chakra
si Team
NETWORK MANAGEMENT IS A NIGHTMARE AS IP HAS a mind of its own,” says Raju Rajan, co-founder and CTO of Ipsum Networks.... more>>
si Team
The economic climate may be lackluster, but the security sector seems to be attractive still. Security appliances firm Teros,... more>>
In Focus
si Team
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOFTWARE & SERVICE Companies (Nasscom) has identified six new emerging areas, which have huge... more>>
si Team
Surgical mask manufacturers like Hospital Equipment Manufacturing and Apothecaries Sundries Manufacturing Company has benefited... more>>
si Team
India’s expertise in the information technology and software industries helped grow the wealth of many non-resident... more>>
si Team
Leading women inventors from Sweden, Canada, U.S., U.K., Finland, Iceland, Italy, Estonia, Africa and France got together at... more>>
Letters
si Team
CFO Rules I was reading latest issue of your magazine where you have featured Rajitha Uppugundri, Senior Director of Finance.... more>>
Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, THE INDIAN FINANCE Minister Jaswant Singh proposed to alter the definition of ‘not ordinarily... more>>
Last Word
Rajdeep Sardesai
It is fashionable in this country to talk of how Indian democracy has failed us. Ironically, such conversations are usually... more>>