Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: And the risk is also built into that, because I suppose you do that across a portfolio product so the risk is mitigated by working on multiple products like that and not just one. You mentioned there was an acquisition you made in New Jersey. Can you talk a little bit about that?

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Give us an example of some of those different experiences on the second screen. Calvin Carter: I watch [the TV show] “Homeland.” The thing I like about it is that you think you know what is going on. The next moment you say, “I can’t believe that just happened.” Then you are not

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This is for outsourced product development projects, correct? Roop Singh: I will give you an example. A large telecom company wanted to launch a certain service on the smartphone. They wanted us to do the development for them. We worked with them, we did the development, and we did not charge them anything

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you think the car mobile interface will be in the middle of 2013? Calvin Carter: Cars have a very long engineering cycle. You are starting to see interfaces that are completely different from anything you have ever seen before. CTIA and CES, for example. In the last two years I have

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There are also time zone advantages, communication advantages, and a bunch of other advantages in near shoring that are now well known. Roop Singh: And you are actually recruiting from the region, so the need to move is less. We are finding those as advantages that we get with our customers. The result

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about what you did with NPR. What was special? How is that relevant today and where is that app going? Calvin Carter: When we first approached the challenge of what you do with an amazing brand like NPR, continually building a body of content as well as an archive

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Especially if you can take the community college population, who is looking to retrain, or the youth population that is trying to find the path … if you have the capabilities to train them and make them productive. I almost feel that the retention rate in North America would be a lot higher

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Trend Spotting: Indian Outsourcers Coming To Rescue American Youth

I recently had a very interesting conversation with Wipro’s Roop Singh that made me stop and observe the subtle irony of what’s happening in the Indian outsourcing industry.