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How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team – Management Essentials – HarvardBusiness.org

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:18:54 +0000

How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team – Management Essentials – HarvardBusiness.org.

Turning Negativity into Productivity
Dealing with a pessimist on your team can be a frustrating and time-consuming experience. Attempts to ignore or counter frequent negative comments may simply incite further negativity. Good news: by being proactive you can help the pessimist change his behavior and enable your team to achieve greater productivity.

WNS Announces Cessation of Change of Control Discussions

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:16:03 +0000

Board of Directors of WNS, a provider of global business process outsourcing (BPO) services, has completed its consideration of the expressions of interest received from interested parties regarding a possible change of control transaction, and has decided not to pursue further discussion.

http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Content/general200909177433.asp

2009 Information Week 500

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:58:05 +0000

Lots of lessons learned amidst the celebration of the leading innovators in IT at the Information Week 500. In conversations with CIOs these past days, a few trends have emerged:

Companies less loyal to existing investments and vendors. Because budgets remain tight and drive most investment priorities, CIO’s are now open to new ideas that reduce operating costs — even if this means replacing existing investments. CIO’s and IT leaders no longer hesitant to move away from established investments. Conversations with a IW500 financial services CIO put it quite clear, “I don’t care how long we’ve used the stuff. If it’s cheaper, I’m open to it. Better and faster would be nice too”
Economic conditions put SaaS and cloud computing top of mind. CIO’s and IT leaders find new service offerings with faster deployment times, lower operating costs, or significant impact to the business users more attractive . The adoption and interest has past the tipping point. As one IW500 manufacturing CIO put it, “All the new stuff is going to be on SaaS. The business wants it and we embrace it, even when our existing vendors tell us they will build that in the future. We don’t have time to wait”
Realization that the CIO role continues to evolve. SaaS adoption now allows employees and business units make decisions on their own. CIO’s must still find ways to secure these applications and ensure seamless integration. Some CIO’s seek a single integrated approach, but most realize that their role has changed. A IW500 pharma CIO notes,” My role has changed from large ERP implementations or enterprise wide SOA to more vendor management, hybrid integration, and application development.”

http://blog.softwareinsider.org/2009/09/15/event-report-2009-information-week-500/

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps Is “Me Too” To Google Docs –Yet Gives Enterprise Options for Collaboration and Security

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:56:01 +0000

Microsoft responds to Google- Zoho Threat
Microsoft gets serious about collaboration using the web and its office products. On the consumer side, it’s just catching up to Google Docs, Zoho, and whatever collaboration start-up emerges. On the enterprise side, this could give internal teams real-time collaboration tools –and close security gaps through an on-premise solution. Regardless, IT must develop a collaboration strategy or run the risk of being blind-sided by business units developing it without them.

24 Productivity Tips From the Best Productivity Blogs

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:39:07 +0000

Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online

via 24 Productivity Tips From the Best Productivity Blogs.

Silobreaker: Mortgage lending jumps by 24%

Anil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:59:58 +0000

Silobreaker: Mortgage lending jumps by 24%. Mortgage lending for house purchase showed its first significant annual increase since early 2007 during July, figures revealed today.

Doing unsual things secret behind Infosys success: Murthy- Corporate Trends-News By Company-News-The Economic Times

Anil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:50:08 +0000

Genpact, Blackstone eye majority stake in WNS- ITeS-Infotech-The Economic Times

Anil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:25:52 +0000

Genpact, Blackstone eye majority stake in WNS- ITeS-Infotech-The Economic Times.

India’s largest third-party outsourcing firm Genpact has offered to buy a majority stake

in smaller rival WNS at $16 a share in an all-stock deal.

The world’s largest private equity fund Blackstone has also put in an aggressive bid

for Warburg Pincus’ 50.1% stake in WNS in the range of $16-17 per share, he said,

requesting anonymity. Genpact’s all-stock offer may not find favour with Warburg’s

board since the PE firm is looking at an all-cash deal, and a valuation of at least $18

per share.

Forget Platform BPO, it’s really about …

Anil — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:28:34 +0000

Phil Fersht in his blog on SaaS vs. Platform based BPO:

The move to provide business services in a cloud-like model is accelerating, and the challenge lies in answering the following questions:
1) Do we want to play in the BPO space?
2) How do we play in this market? What’s our angle?
3) How can we compete? What’s our differentiation?

Whether a provider is adding value beyond low-cost processing services?

What’s interesting is this coming together of the IT/BPO model.

more..

http://fersht.typepad.com/the_outsourcing_bloghorse/2009/09/platform-bpo.html

Your Pitch to get Analysts interested

Anil — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:01:41 +0000

Brian Sommer on how to create a right presentation of your pitch to industry analysts.

Focus on
- business challenges that solutions like yours solve
- recent research your firm has completed in this space
- unique insights your executives or your firm has on its solution space
- future concerns your firm is studying/watching

And keep following details subdued or hidden:
- our glorious leader
- our undifferentiated vision statement
- a world map with all of your offices
- a list of your solutions

http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=592