My first post went up on 8th Nov and I wrote 23 posts in the month. Today I looked at the list of most visited posts in November and I must tell you that the list had its surprises. Below are the top five in rank order. Check them out if you have missed any.
Limits of the MNC Hub-and-Spoke Model
A friend who joined IBM Global Services (IGS) in Bangalore five days back shared his joining experience with me. His desk wasn’t ready… His case could be an exception but I doubt this is the case… I am surprised that so many MNCs have failed to get their India leadership structures right…
Anatomy of New Growth in India
In a new article, Anatomy of New Growth in India, posted at SandHill.com, I argue three things. First, take emerging markets like India seriously because they punch above their weight-class. Second, go after the bottom-of-pyramid opportunities. Third, think beyond talent/cost arbitrage and build in-market capability to incubate new products and business models. This is the first article in a series called India DNA Talk where I will discuss the burgeoning growth in India and its implications for the software industry at large.
Can Innovation Be Learnt?
This is a contentious question… It often splits a group of people right in the middle. Before I share my answer with you, let me say that innovation is part individual, part organizational and part contextual… On reflection, perhaps a better question to ask is: can innovation intensity be increased? The answer to that is a qualified yes…
The Quiet Leadership Revolution
Innovation drives commoditization. It forces companies to reinvent themselves, to go through periodic orbit change. But times are changing and one now needs a different leadership model to bring about radical organizational change… Old school thinking about confronting legacy mindsets won’t do anymore.
Bursting of the India R&D Offshoring Bubble
I believe that India shoring of R&D is going through a “trough of disillusionment”. There are unmet expectations on both the US and the India sides. Many feel that the model isn’t working. Some companies are slowing down, others are scaling back and many more are re-evaluating their plans. But this phase is good for the future. It will recalibrate expectations and will lead to a more thoughtful and sustainable growth in India shoring going forward.
I thought I will mention one favorite post that didn’t make it to the top five most visited list for November…
Move Over Data Center
About a month back, Sun announced their Project Blackbox initiative. It’s a mobile data center product that’s essentially a shipping container full of water cooled low-power servers… But the real story is not about data center in a box, it’s about data center from a wall socket… Amazon’s S3 has created a huge marketplace for storage, backup tools, online backup vendors and other niche products. It’s quite likely that Amazon EC2 is going to do the same for the hosting market… New application categories will emerge and new markets will be created.
(Disclosure: I got the idea for this November Roundup from Daniel Scocco’s nice blog InnovationZen)
Hi,
Very interesting to find out the article which topped the list.
I guess introspection fuels “thought” better than OLPC,SaaS and BOP.
Regs,
Arun.PC
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