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Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

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Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep

The fraud and deception at Satyam Computer Services in India was so in-depth that it included dual accounting books, thousands of forged invoices, thousands of unnecessary employees and dozens of fake bank statements, according to court records analyzed by the New York Times. ...

Tags: Satyam, Deception, Fraud, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Litigation, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Statements, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...

Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter

Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...

Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

A fresh model for software maintenance

It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok

A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...

Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Big quakes effects on big buildings

Researchers from California and France have used 3-D supercomputer simulation tools to evaluate the damages that strong earthquakes along the San Andreas faults would cause to earthquake-resistant buildings in Southern California. For this simulation, they've put two 18-story buildings designed according respectively to the 1982 and 1997 Uniform Building Code...

Tags: rupture

Blog posts 2006-08-13

Time to learn LISP

Time to learn LISPLong and Interesting Thread on Dynamic Languages vs Javahttp://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37121recent blog postsYou may also be interested in these posts from the past few weeks:The Perils of JavaSchoolshttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.htmlBy Joel SpolskyThursday, December 29, 2005Lisp is sinhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sriram/archive/2006/01/15/lisp_is_sin.aspxBy Sriram KrishnanSunday, January 15, 2006They got me interested enough to check out the MIT...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, PHP, LISP, Lisp

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Is it time for universal time?

Interesting comment posted to a recent BriefingsDirect podcast with Scott Mace on calendar interoperability issues. This from someone self-identified as L.M. Krishnan:Let's accept this fact.The world can no longer be divided into time zones to suit individual requirements of waking up to a cock-a-doodle-doo at 6.00 a.m. in the morning...

Tags: Universal

Blog posts 2006-01-20