Wednesday, December 24, 2003

The Rise Of India

Kiruba points to this cover story on Business week on how Indian brainpower is reshaping the Corporate America. Definitely a good read and what looks like an unbiased view on Outsourcing. It's not just software now, but much more.
The gains in efficiency could be tremendous. Indeed, India is accelerating a sweeping reengineering of Corporate America. Companies are shifting bill payment, human resources, and other functions to new, paperless centers in India.

Another article talks about how India Is Raising Its Sights At Last. I really like the last paragraph of this article:

India's transformation is still a work in progress. The problems of illiteracy, poor infrastructure, and bad government persist. But something else is there, too: self-confidence. By 2015, 55% of Indians will be under the age of 20, and this generation will have grown up in an economy where roads like the Pune highway are the rule, not the exception. Unlike the generation before them, young Indians are no longer obsessed with India's poverty, but with its future. They give India a fighting chance.

Sunday, December 21, 2003

Death of Pop-up Advertising

The article talks about how the nest version of Internet Explorer (actually it's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP) will bring an end to the era of Online Pop-up advertising. Well, for me, it happened couple of months back when I installed Google Toolbar.

Saturday, December 20, 2003

Case Study: Amazon.com

Amazon is one of the very few companies I admire and Amazon.com is one of the very few websites I use to do my shopping and research.
In October, for the first time in its eight-year history, Amazon.com posted a profitable quarter that wasn't driven by holiday shopping—and its stock price continues to climb. But to keep growing, Amazon will need to wield more clout offline. A look at its untested new strategy to offer back-end online services to other retailers offers insights into how to profit from IT assets.