Boss is calling – Understanding the Psychology of Bossism

hat day evening when you were enjoying that party with your family and friends, you received a call on your mobile and the screen was showing, "Boss is calling". What did you do? Did you answer the call or did you let it ring? Did you call back after a while or did you send a message to him to check if there is anything urgent? Your response and the way you might react on these situations will be based on the type of boss you have and your relation with him or her. Bosses cannot be good or bad. ...
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Infy to use its internships to attract more global talent

Infosys Technologies, India’s second largest software exporter, plans to use the success of its global internship programme, InStep to attract more global talent to the company. From the launch of the programme in 1999, the company has so far trained 664 people from 41 nationalities. “The programme, launched almost 10 years ago to create a platform for the brightest engineers from the US to understand India and our (Infosys) business better, has now metamorphosed to cover most other count...
Published about 12-08-2009 | Rated 0

Good news for IT/BT business in Karnataka

BANGALORE: State’s IT industry - the nation’s biggest - has something to cheer about. Karnataka plans to set up an IT/BT development authority which will function as a ‘true’ single-window to ensure speedier clearance of business proposals. The state cabinet is expected to clear this proposal soon. Ashok Kumar C Manoli, principal secretary, IT/BT/S&T, told TOI that the authority would work as an independent body and would have the power to clear investment proposals without delay. Th...
Published about 11-08-2009 | Rated 0

`Our revenue contribution from top customers has grown`

Wipro`s Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani talk about the company`s growth path and stitching BPO and IT deals together `Our revenue contribution from top customers has grown` Wipro, the Bangalore-based business conglomerate which derives slightly over two-thirds of its revenues from IT, has not only met its quarterly targets but the company`s Chairman Azim Premji has also raised hopes of an early recovery in the global economy. Among Indian IT outsourcing companies, Wipro is the first compa...
Published about 03-08-2009 | Rated 0

Govt support must to help IT achieve growth: Infosys

Bangalore: The government`s active support is important for the country`s IT sector to help achieve the Rs 70,000-crore export figure this fiscal, a top Infosys executive said on Friday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at the Infosys campus, Company Board Member Mohandas Pai said, Bangalore would register a growth of 20 per cent from last year`s figure of Rs 58,000 crore. To a query on states like Kerala and Orissa aggressively marketing their IT hubs, he said, gover...
Published about 01-08-2009 | Rated 0

Genpact to bid for UID project

India’s largest business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, Genpact, plans to bid for the union government’s Unique Identity (UID) project and is likely to enter a tie-up with IT players who can work on the hardware aspect. “Other than the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment, government is a key sector for Genpact in India. We will be focused more on the process optimisation aspect than on the IT. But since there is a small aspect of hardware involved in the government...
Published about 27-07-2009 | Rated 0

Global IT contracts dip 22% in H1

Compared with the first six months (January-June) of 2008, which saw record levels of outsourcing activity, the information technology industry awarded a total contract value (TCV) of just $20.5 billion in the first half of 2009 which is 22 per cent lower, year-on-year (y-o-y). The decline was primarily due to a reduction in mega-deals in Europe, as well as lower spending globally on business process outsourcing (BPO), states a new report from TPI, a research and advisory firm. For the cal...
Published about 27-07-2009 | Rated 0

US does not want protectionism: Clinton

Allaying fears about the reported anti-outsourcing stance of the Barack Obama administration, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said that America does not want a return to protectionism. "What President Obama has said (is) that we do not want a return to protectionism when Congress passed the provision in our stimulus bill," Clinton, who is on a visit to India, told private news channel in an interview. The US government has imposed certain restrictions on companies receivi...
Published about 20-07-2009 | Rated 0

Infosys looks to outbid rivals for UBS unit buy

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies has intensified its efforts to outbid rivals Wipro and Genpact to acquire the back-office operations of the Swiss financial giant UBS. At least two people familiar with this transaction said Infy has moved into a final due diligence phase in a deal that may involve upfront cash payment of over $50 million for the assets in India and Poland, as well as assured multi-year business contract from UBS. Deloitte is running the sale process, which could be wrappe...
Published about 10-07-2009 | Rated 0

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