December was my first full month of blogging. It was quite enjoyable. I had 28 posts, 25 comments, 20,518 page views and 6,684 visitors. The top five most visited posts were all from the Growth Anatomy series! The next five are an eclectic bunch. Check them out if you have missed any.
Growth Anatomy Series
This series started innocently enough as a follow-up to my SandHill.com article but somehow quietly picked-up momentum. It covers a fair amount of ground about how to go about developing bottom-on-the-pyramid opportunities and why doing that is so important to the software industry.
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.
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.
Are You in An Extreme Job? (Received most comments)
If you work 60+ hours a week and meet some of the characteristics like fast-paced work under tight deadlines, responsibility for profit and loss, a large amount of travel, an unpredictable flow of work, and work-related events outside business hours, you are in an “extreme job”. So says a new report by Hidden Brain Drain Taskforce…
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.
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…
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