Does the offshoring and outsourcing of Information Technology and related skills hurt America? How much does it hurt. I just finished reading an editorial comment in Information Week magazine from Bob Evans, Senior VP and Director of their Global CIO unit. By Bob’s estimate, drawn from Forrester Research numbers, perhaps $60 billion of work was [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
Business Week just published its list of India’s 50 most powerful people . You may be surprised how many of them have strong links to the West, most often to the United States. Among captains of industry, Ratan Tata has a degree from Cornell, Mukesh Ambani studied at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, his estranged [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
The India expert normally doesn’t write about Indian-Americans. Our focus is looking at India from the outside and helping the world deal with India. But President Barack Obama has taken three significant actions to re-inforce one of the (positive) stereotypes of Indian Americans and I must comment on this new trend. First, Dr. Sanjay Gupta [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Gunjan
According to Business Week’s April 2009 report on the 50 most innovative companies on the planet, Apple, Google and Toyota lead in innovation. The United States dominates the list with half of the 50 companies. India is represented by three companies: the Tata Group at #13, Reliance Industries Ltd. at #15 and Infosys at #26. [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Gunjan
India is the largest borrower from both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and has always made good on its loan payments. The moneys are used for mega-development projects, usually around infrasctructure. But a new plan to develop flood management, water supply and sanitation in the northeastern border state of Arunachal Pradesh caused [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Gunjan
