Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott Challenges in Building a Global Management Team Tony: If think about how you will grow your company and help software companies by partnering with them to go to China, India, and maybe other countries, do think your management team is up to the task? I look at your management team

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Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 1)

By guest author Tony Scott From Intel to Outsourcing Tony Scott: Before we talk about where you are today, can you tell me a little about how you came to found Sierra Atlantic? Raju Reddy: Sure. I spent about ten years at Intel in a variety of engineering and marketing management roles before I started

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 14)

By guest author Tony Scott Outsourcing in a Shifting World Economy Tony: Back to your point about companies changing, it’s not just about the local companies in India or China doing business in India or China.  It’s about the fact that those companies are going to become global companies, world leaders. If you look at

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 13)

By guest author Tony Scott The Future Giants of Outsourcing Tony: The move to cloud computing clearly will increase the pace of change toward globalized delivery, but many are still concerned about the issues of security and confidentiality of data – do you see this changing over the next few years?

Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 12)

By guest author Tony Scott The Future of Outsourcing Tony: Let me throw out some big, relatively open-ended questions to you.  If you look out three or five years from now, what you think the outsourcing business is going to look like? Do you think it is going to be significantly larger worldwide than it

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 11)

By guest author Tony Scott Growing Globally through Acquisitions – It’s All About Culture Fit Tony: Historically, for lot of companies, acquisitions have been extraordinarily difficult to digest. Vivek: Yes. I think we have done it fairly well. Tony: What have you done differently to allow that?  When you think about acquisition integration, whether you’re

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 10)

By guest author Tony Scott Hiring Global Talent Tony: What about your external hiring process – you clearly can’t grow on a global scale only through internal growth while you are building this capability? Vivek: In the meantime, when you hire people you hire the best. Today when we hire people, we don’t look at

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Building a Global Culture Internally Tony: So what are you focusing on to help CSC gain the ability to build talent that can operate globally? You talked about moving people back and forth. Are there also internal training and development programs that you’re working on?