Conservation of the Urban Identity (Part 3): Cultural Tourism

By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra

The Indian state of Rajasthan, a conglomerate of princely provinces, is dotted with palaces belonging to former royalty who were fast losing their means of income after India gained its independence in 1947. Through the help of private and government initiatives, many of these old palaces have been converted into tourist accommodation while parts of the structure remained the home of the royal family. Rajasthan currently has close to a hundred such heritage hotels and is one of India’s most prominent and successful examples of systematic reuse of old structures through conservation and upgrading that has harnessed the legacy of the past to boost tourism while preserving architectural identity. >>>

Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 4)

SM: Have you grown primarily through direct sales, or have you had other strategic methods?

LM: There was also a viral aspect to our growth. Those people they sent an email to who happened to have a consult or a lab result, wanted the same capability. We started off with Centricity but had a rapid expansion based on the viral effect. >>>

CIO Priorities: BMC

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman

In the next two posts, I discuss the CIO priorities of companies that provide solutions predominantly for the infrastructure layer of the IT stack. This post features Mark Settle, CIO of BMC Software. The points that stood out in our conversation were SaaS and Mark’s development of a service catalog to better manage his IT shop. >>>

Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 3)

SM: To me, it sounds as though you wanted to break communication silos in the medical arena with email. Email is a proven killer application.

LM: Intel’s policy is that the adoption of technology is directly proportional to applications which require collaboration. According to their philosophy, the increase of PC sales was not the result of building a better PC, it was about connecting business users with email because more and more users wanted to get connected to each other. >>>

Announcing ReTweet Winners

Thank you to all the participants! The Give the Gift of Entrepreneurship contest has ended, and ten winners have been randomly chosen from among the many participants who made themselves eligible for the draw by ReTweeting our story during the contest period.  All winners were contacted via Twitter, and here they are in no particular order: >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Streamlining Innovation

In this week’s column, Streamlining Innovation, HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee discusses the company’s corporate innovation strategy.

Deal Radar 2009: Cnergyis

By Guest Author Shailesh Otari

Filing income taxes isn’t always easy, and Prasad Rajappan had his own share of problems with the income tax department in India. While most people are just happy for such an experience to end, Prasad came up with a business idea to exploit this situation. Convinced that large organizations would be interested in having a tax service for their employees, he created Cnergyis in 2000. >>>

Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 2)

SM: So 15 years later you left Intel. What is the story behind that?

LM: Intel’s largest OEM at the time, Packard Bell, was carrying the Intel brand into retail. They merged with NEC’s U.S. operations, and I was asked by that newly merged entity to join them and run the commercial business group under the NEC brand, working directly under the founder of Packard Bell. >>>