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May-2005 issue
On The Cover
NIIT’s Neo-Nidus, Niche n Name
Author: Harish Revanna
NIIT Technologies U.S. headquarters in Atlanta is on a holiday. All the delivery teams, sales troops and marketing folks are jamming in the Stone Mountain Resort to talk business over buffet. Everyone is babbling about...
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Feature
Echt Entrepreneur, Yeah!
Harish Revanna
Jai Shekhawat left McKinsey & Company to start his own firm. His friends needled him about leaving a job at the prestigious...
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Getting off her comfort zone
Aniket Kavathekar
In December 1998, Radha Basu started her maiden expedition towards Everest’s Advanced Base camp—an altitude of 5,200 meters...
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Innovative mindset can deliver great products
Sabeer Bhatia
India is ready to take the next step in the software value chain–developing world-class consumer and enterprise products. A...
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Going against the grain and grinning
Ashwini Kachapeswaran
Having nightmares over Verification? Think you will be a grandfather by the time it’s over? Think you will spend your last...
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New wave of entrepreneurs in India
Dr. Deepak B. Phatak
A lot has been written in the recent past on the success stories of Indian entrepreneurship, and rightly so, considering very...
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Technology
Web 2.0:Connectedness, sharing and the social
Sunil Singh
There is an interesting effect that is very perceptible, particularly in the insular world of the Silicon Valley called the...
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Using speech automation strategically
Amit Desai
Excellent customer service continues to be a key business differentiator. The challenge businesses and call centers have...
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Refining IT for excellence
Subhasis Chatterjee
Ever since BPCL implemented SAP R/3 it’s IT department has changed dramatically. Today IT is not just a service department in...
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Business
E-enabling retail India
Aniket Kavathekar
The retail world is observing a change in India with major players in queue for IT solutions. IT helps retailers streamline...
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Wen visits India's Silicon Valley- A boost to Indo-China IT...
Priya Pradeep
The Scenario China and India’s annual GDP growth rates for 2003 were at 9.1 and 8.5 percent and at 9.5 and 6.9 percent for...
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What Acer did in India
Harish Revanna
Since last summer, Acer India has been upbeat. This can be attributed to the ‘think globally, act locally’ strategy that...
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BPOs outpouring
Aniket Kavathekar
History repeats itself and same trends resurface in different forms. If India was known for providing knowledge to the world in...
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Walk the tight rope
Navin V. Nagiah
The engineer, salesperson and marketer meet at the office water cooler: Engineer (to marketer): We build. Sales sells. What...
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Entrepreneurship
Laser Soft holds head aloft
Priya Pradeep
Laser-sharp dreams converge at Chennai and hope to capture India and beyond. That’s CMD, Suresh Kamath’s brainchild – the...
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In My View
Four deadly sins of product management and how to avoid them
Dewaine Miller
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalist live or die on product management. Whether it is done well or poorly dictates the success...
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Leadership
Biocon-A Bionic leadership story
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Leadership Style When I began Biocon I saw Biotechnology as a business opportunity, whereas others didn’t even consider it...
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People Tracker
People Tracker
si Team
Vikram Gulati named CEO and President of Intelligroup, Inc Vikram Gulati recently took over as the Chief Executive Officer...
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si 20 Company Performance
OSI Systems Inc
si Team
It’s been a patient journey for Deepak Chopra while navigating optoelectronic devices manufacturer OSI Systems through...
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Rolta India Ltd.
si Team
For well over a decade, Mumbai-based Rolta India has been a leading provider of CAD/CAM/GIS solutions with large orders...
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VC Chakra
Memento musters $3 M
si Team
Memento was founded in October 2003 by entrepreneur BC Krishna, and launched at the prestigious DEMO conference early in 2004....
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Jadoo Jars $11 M
si Team
Portable energy storage and power generation product developer, Jadoo Power, has garnered $11 million in its Series B funding....
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Career
Services-Products: The two sides of a hyphen
Peter Vas
Have you ever heard of a flying ladder? This refers to a ladder of employment discovered in the West which flew East, creating...
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In Focus
Ring in the new Telecom market
si Team
With the number of telephone connections in India surpassing 100 million recently, India has become the sixth nation in the...
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Call Center turns fraud center
si Team
The cyber crime police in the western Indian city of Pune arrested 16 people, including a few former call center employees for...
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Fidelity fund enters Indian equity
si Team
The Indian share market with more than 5,000 listed companies is becoming an attractive proposition for global mutual funds....
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‘Man of Steel’ dies in a chopper crash
si Team
Om Prakash Jindal, Power Minister of Haryana and the owner of $1.2 billion Jindal Empire, died in a helicopter crash on March...
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Indian Banking Sector:Not yet free playing field for...
si Team
The Indian banking sector seemed a hunting ground for foreign banks, during 2003-04 when non-resident equity in private banks...
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Free flying
si Team
India and the U.S. recently signed an Air Services Agreement that would result in more commercial flights, lower fares and...
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Asian markets to taste the thunder
si Team
Thums Up, the largest selling carbonated beverage brand in India with annual sales of Rs. 17 billion, is all set to go...
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India ascends the IT readiness
si Team
Growth in the Indian IT sector seems to have percolated to the social sector and proved pivotal in improving its position in...
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Editor's Desk
Wait and watch the new breed
Pradeep Shankar
Since siliconindia’s first issue in August 1997, we have written about every Indians’ journey into the world of...
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Last Word
Value Systems & Entrepreneurship
Vanu Bose
Vanu Bose was an American electrical engineer and technology executive. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of...
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