India is going through the most exciting phase in this century, well-positioned to becoming a manufacturing and product servicing hub of the world. Today industry bodies like NASSCOM, with many...

Ajay Chowdhry

Co-Founder and Chief Promoter, HCL Infosystems

Collaborative functionality is clearly my favourite. Products will be created which deliver value through combining/collaborating across a whole host of connected systems/data sources/process stages.

Bharat Goenka

Managing Director, Tally Solutions

Cost arbitrage can no longer be the primary reason for investing in India. Availability of talent, both managerial and technical, in large numbers is a key driving force and needs to be nurtured with...

Bhaskar Pramanik

Chairman, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.

In the aerospace industry, a leading aircraft engine manufacturer has leveraged an Indian partner to do 33 per cent of a new engine design. This state-of-the-art technology programme and...

B V R Mohan Reddy

Founder, CEO and Chairman, Infotech Enterprises

In the aerospace industry, a leading aircraft engine manufacturer has leveraged an Indian partner to do 33 per cent of a new engine design. This state-of-the-art technology programme and partnership...

B V R Mohan Reddy

Founder, CEO and Chairman, Infotech Enterprises

The internet has presented a plethora of opportunities for both businesses as well as consumers, to interact and transact. The improvement in technology for enabling secure credit and debit card...

Deep Kalra

Co-Founder, MakeMyTrip (India)

The basic premise of the McKinsey analysis was that organisations that aspire to achieve growth above both the nominal GDP and the average for an industry sector. would necessarily recognise the...

Ganesh Natarajan

Vice Chairman & CEO, Zensar Technologies

NASSCOM fostered brotherhood in many senses. Members were involved beyond business agendas with regular social meets, even ‘fashion evenings’ where CEOs sashayed down catwalks. This camaraderie...

Harish Mehta

Chairman & MD, Onward Technologies Ltd.

The Board must put in place policies related to IT security, review them regularly, monitor their implementation and ensure anticipatory actions to forestall problems. A periodic IT risk assessment...

Kiran Karnik

Former President, NASSCOM

Adopting the cloud when it becomes mainstream is no longer the issue. The important thing is to embrace the cloud quickly to drive business competitiveness. Speed is of the essence, and today, there...

K K Natarajan

Co-Founder & CEO, MindTree Ltd.

For organisations, the future roadmap to success will be about technology, as about how they leverage that technology to enrich their relationships with their consumers and employees.

Lakshmi Narayanan

Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solution

This ability to scale has demonstrated a huge process innovation. The process that has been developed has been able to capture the knowledge of experts, and train relatively young engineers so that...

N. Chandrasekaran

CEO & MD, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

The Aadhaar number will become a tool for the government to make these welfare investments more effective, inclusive and transparent. The unique identification that the Aadhaar number guarantees will...

Nandan Nilekani

Chairman, UIDAI

It is unclear how long this uncertainty may last. However, it is evident that organisations that shape their client relationships, drive operational efficiencies, and systematically go after and...

Noshir F Kaka

MD, Mckinsey & Co. India

Customer centricity will have to remain the key goal and organisations will need to evolve vertically-focused business units to better service clients. They will need to evolve from vendors to...

Pramod Bhasin

Vice Chairman, Genpact

A Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) was created in 2002 to fund rural ICT infrastructure development.

R Chandrashekhar

Secretary, Department of Telecom and IT, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology

Start-ups innovate, not big organisations. Cloud, mobile, social, SMB are the key sectors where products and solutions are being developed.

Rajendra S Pawar

Chairman and Co-Founder, NIIT Group

Without an enabling framework of policies and procedures that encourages people to take risks and become entrepreneurs, our best and brightest will not venture forth and build innovative, scalable...

Saurabh Srivastava

Chair (India Operations), CA Technologies.

Traditional models of delivering IT are being challenged by new players leveraging cloud-based platforms and products. These will help IT move from a conventional build-from-scratch model to a...

S. D. Shibulal

Co-Founder, CEO & MD, Infosys Limited

A little known fact is that Indian organisations are not just saving but also creating new jobs in the US. A dipstick survey of recent news announcements of the Top 10 Indian IT players suggests that...

T K Kurien

CEO, Wipro Technologies Limited

If we are to nurture this precious asset, our young people, we need to transform our organisational culture and invert the management pyramid to focus on the ‘value zone’ – the place where...

Vineet Nayar

Vice Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd