Author Archives: Rajiv Sodhi

The Third Digital Revolution: Fabrication

The Third Digital Revolution: Fabrication

I had a recent opportunity to meet Professor Neil Gershenfeld of MIT, who is recognized as one of the most accomplished scientists of...
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Reminiscing some of the key technologies with professors of leading universities and predictions on focus areas for future

Reminiscing some of the key technologies with professors of leading universities and predictions on focus areas for future

I happened to meet informally Professor Thomas Maganti (President SUTD, also Dean of Engineering with MIT for 43 years), Professor Richard DeMillo...
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Information Technology industry Discontinuities and Recommendations.

Information Technology industry Discontinuities and Recommendations.

Information Technology industry Discontinuities and Recommendations I had discussed sometime back in my article on “Information Technology - shrinking industry and outsourcing...
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Leveraging Location Strategy For ICT Business

Leveraging Location Strategy For ICT Business

Leveraging Location Strategy For ICT Business In my recent travel to USA and Europe, for the first time I deliberately toured tier...
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Unlocking High Potential in Leaders – a Fire Side Chat with Vineet Nayar

Unlocking High Potential in Leaders – a Fire Side Chat with Vineet Nayar

Vineet Nayar I attended a session with Vineet on unlocking high potential in leaders. Vineet is the Vice Chairman and Joint MD...
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Dr Philip Kotler Refines the Theory of Marketing

Dr Philip Kotler Refines the Theory of Marketing

Dr Philip Kotler, the Marketing Guru recently visited India and shared that he has refined his legendary theory of Marketing which was...
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Leveraging the Eco System of Internet of Things

Leveraging the Eco System of Internet of Things

More and more devices are getting sensors embedded in them to sense their current state of internal and external status. There...
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Marc J. Schiller on Bridging the IT Leadership Gap

Marc J. Schiller on Bridging the IT Leadership Gap

Marc J. Schiller is an IT strategist, author, speaker, and mentor to IT leaders. He has spent more than two decades consulting...
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Curt Coffman on Unleashing Human Potential

Curt Coffman on Unleashing Human Potential

A New York Times best selling author, consultant to Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations, Curt Coffman has invested 30+ years in...
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Information Technology – Shrinking Industry and Outsourcing Imperatives

Information Technology – Shrinking Industry and Outsourcing Imperatives

Information Technology industry was formed when computers began to be used for business applications from earlier scientific applications. Businesses realized that many...
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Blending Information with Technology and Business Application

Blending Information with Technology and Business Application

Advancements in Information Technology like Big Data, Mobility, Event based Analytics ; availability of fast and online communications globally, portability of communications...
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Jeffrey L. Sampler on Core In-Competencies

Jeffrey L. Sampler on Core In-Competencies

Jeff is a well known professor of management and fellow at the Said Business School in Oxford University. I happened to meet...
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Ram Charan on Linking Strategy to Execution

Ram Charan on Linking Strategy to Execution

I recently had the privilege of attending a face to face session with Ram Charan the famous author of over a dozen acclaimed...
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Leveraging BIG Data and Real-time Analytics

Leveraging BIG Data and Real-time Analytics

Big data means lots of data and gets generated through many sources, a few of them are described below: One of the sources is...
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Enabling Digital Value Chain

Enabling Digital Value Chain

Many companies in business of digital content like Music, Videos, and Movies are seriously challenged by growth, availability and proliferation of internet, easy...
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Multichannel Integration

Multichannel Integration

Companies leverage multiple channels for business like their own brick and mortar stores, e-commerce on the web, franchise operations etc. These are called...
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Dynamic Insertion of Advertisements in Live Broadcasts

Dynamic Insertion of Advertisements in Live Broadcasts

Modern technology is used by broadcasters to maximize revenue from advertisements by auctioning the advertisement slots in real time. Live channels have opportunities...
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Leveraging Technology for Energy (Electric Utility) Optimization

Leveraging Technology for Energy (Electric Utility) Optimization

Global warming and climate changes, high carbon emissions causing pollution, increasing oil prices are some of the few concerns facing the global...
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Using Biometrics in Business and Industry

Using Biometrics in Business and Industry

Walt Disney World Biometrics Measurement (Picture Courtesy: Wikipedia.org) Biometric technology is critical component to adaptation of many new technologies like mobility, risk...
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Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation at Global Customer Meet

Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation at Global Customer Meet

Malcolm Gladwell (Picture Courtesy: Wikipedia.org) Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, Tipping Point and Outliers spoke about his views on innovation at the global...
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Gary Hamel on Future of Management

Gary Hamel on Future of Management

Gary Hamel on Future of Management talks about the hierarchical management structures are obsolete in the current world and were more relevant to...
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Bill Clinton Keynote at Global Customer Meet November 2011 in Orlando

Bill Clinton Keynote at Global Customer Meet November 2011 in Orlando

Bill Clinton (Courtesy: Wikipedia.org) "I have an idea" was the title of the conference. Last year also Former President Clinton talked about...
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Reflections on the year gone by

Reflections on the year gone by

The year gone by has been very challenging for companies where they had to deal with simultaneous changes in economic conditions, political...
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Business Outlook for 2012

Business Outlook for 2012

Continued focus on cost reduction in run the business. Companies that are able to give better value to customers using automation, process...
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