By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In my two previous articles, I spoke with executives at two leading tech-consulting houses, Accenture and Deloitte Consulting. In this article, I speak with Sudhir Kumar Reddy, CIO of MindTree Consulting, a global IT solutions company headquartered in India, specializing in IT services, product engineering, infrastructure management and technical support
By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra Cultural heritage can be regarded as any existing element that is a part of the traditions, lifestyles, knowledge, and ideas of a group of people. Of these, ‘built heritage’ implies monuments and works of architecture that are of historical and artistic importance. Urban architecture is in fact a representation of
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the first article in this series, I talked about CIO priorities at Accenture. In this article, I speak with Mark White, principal and CTO at Deloitte Consulting. According to Mark, the top focus area for CIOs and CTOs is cloud computing. Let’s see what Mark has to say.
By Guest Author Bruce McNamer More than one billion people are going hungry on a daily basis, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. On average, that amounts to more than one out of every seven people on the planet. With our global levels of wealth, knowledge and resources, that number is unacceptable to
By Guest Author Leslie Scott [Leslie wraps up her series of excerpts from her book, “About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game That Became a Household Name.”] Unlike Jenga, not all brands succeed in achieving so close a link between the product being marketed and the image conveyed by a brand mark. Perhaps
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman The ‘CIO Priorities’ series attempts to gain insights into one of the most serious, interesting, and challenging questions facing the technology industry, which, as you might have rightly guessed, is “What are the priorities of enterprise CIOs today?” This question is serious given the constrained nature of cash flows, thanks
Narayanan Raman is a graduate student at Boston University School of Management. He previously worked with Wipro Technologies both in India and in the United States on information systems analysis and development roles. His interests include IT strategy and IT business analysis and development. CIO Priorities: Procter & GambleCIO Priorities: Xerox CorporationCIO Priorities: BMCCIO Priorities:
By Guest Author Leslie Scott When you first arrive as a visitor to the Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia, Kenya, (where my zoologist husband and I spend 4 months of each year), you are handed an information pack containing everything from an article on the history of Mpala (the 48,000-acre wildlife conservancy and working cattle