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Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 6)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: That is an interesting concept, being transparent for the benefit of employees, making sure that people feel included and valued in their work, and helping them to find their place in the global workforce. Obviously, if we look at the historical concept of how one manages a business, it
Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 5)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Through the course of this process, how have you as the president of HCL America gone about making sure you infuse that culture in your organization and find this kind of talent for your leaders? Shami: You have to do it step by step. If I look at the
Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 4)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Do you see HCL also doing more of the type of deals that you did with CA, possibly moving into product creation? Shami: Definitely. There was a time when we were very strong and focused on seeing whether we could do an entire platform; everything is about platforms. One
Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 3)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Companies have to figure out what their own core competencies are. If you look at the history of artisans, they made everything themselves. Then came industrialization with vertical integration, with ultimate example being Ford’s River Rouge plant. When it was finished, it was the largest integrated industrial plant in
Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 2)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: What do you think are going to be the big changes? Obviously, the pure labor arbitrage model is not going to go away entirely; it is going to continue to move to whatever locale is the lowest cost. The fact is that the “flattening” of the world means I
Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 1)
By guest author Tony Scott This interview, the ninth in Tony’s series, is with Dr. Shami Khorana, who is the president of HCL America, the subsidiary of HCL Technologies, a $3.1 billion business and IT services company with more than 72,000 employees worldwide. Tony Scott: Shami, thanks for taking the time to talk to me
Do You Want To Be Rich, Or Be the King?
By Guest Author Tony Scott Over the past twenty-plus years I’ve been working with and advising start-ups, I have often been asked by boards to have “a talk” with entrepreneurs about “potentially” bringing in new leadership. Yes, even experienced boards often run from confrontation with entrepreneurs, because building consensus is typically how boards work –
There is an ‘I’ in Visionary
(But do they really have to be arrogant egomaniacs?)
By Guest Author Tony Scott Last week I wrote that there should be no ‘I’ in CEO – at least not in successful CEOs. Of course, that was a broad generalization. Plenty of very successful founders/CEOs who are rightly lauded as visionaries are also often described as arrogant egomaniacs by the press and by those
