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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Aug 2nd

By guest author Tony Scott Does “The End of Software” Demand New Leadership Skills? Tony: My friend Tim Chou, who set up Oracle’s on-demand applications business, wrote a great book called “The End of Software” about how software will be sold and delivered in the future. Do you think that we are starting to see

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 31st

By guest author Tony Scott SaaS, the Cloud, and Changing Customer Expectations Tony: How are your customers adapting to the world of SaaS and cloud computing? Are they asking for a different approach than what you have provided in the past? Vivek: Customers are looking at from this way: “Can you take the application, take

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Jul 30th

By guest author Tony Scott SaaS and Its Impact on Outsourcing Tony: So how do you see SaaS and cloud computing ultimately driving the IT landscape, and how will that impact outsourcing companies? Vivek: SaaS is definitely beginning to establish itself. It’s a little too early to call a win on the cloud front, but

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 29th

By guest author Tony Scott Managing in a Virtualizing World Tony: There has obviously been an increase in labor costs over the past few years in India and in other world sourcing locations. But labor costs seemed to have risen faster in India particularly, at least for the IT outsourcing side and also for business

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 28th

By guest author Tony Scott CSC’s Entry into Commercial Outsourcing Tony: CSC wasn’t really deep in the commercial space at that time, were they? Vivek: That’s right. My first question to CSC when they approached me was: “Why CSC?” I was settled at IBM, and I had no desire to leave there. But the more

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 27th

By guest author Tony Scott I recently interviewed Vivek Chopra, one of the early employees of Wipro, former head of IBM’s Daksh services business in India, and now president of CSC’s India operations. Vivek has a long and deep history in the IT industry in India and in the global outsourcing and off-shoring arena. His

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