The race for Citigroup Global Services, the business process outsourcing arm of Citigroup is hotting up with the entry of the BPO firm WNS and consultancy firm Accenture.
Innovation isn't about eggheads in lab coats. It's about tapping the resources of the entire organization.
Infosys is binding its employees with a contract that forbids them from joining the company's customers and competitors when they quit. Is this fair?
"The cumulative total contract value of human resources outsourcing (HRO) transactions reached $ 21.2 billion in 2006 and is expected to be $25.4 billion by the end of this year," according to the study by the Everest Research Institute. Accenture, Convergys and IBM have gained significant HRO market share in terms of total contract value while Hewitt remains the market leader in terms of annual contract value, the study notes.
Valued at Euro 35 billion, Nokia is the world's fifth most valuable brand, after Coca Cola, Microsoft, IBM and General Electric. With annual turnover at 3.6 billion euro, India contributed nearly seven per cent to Nokia's total global revenues of 51 billion euro in 2007. Nokia has invested $ 210 million for setting up a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu and the Indian facility is 1 of the best among 9 Nokia factories. It has estimated 100mn new phone subscribers in India.
'Even for those of us who are not driven or hardworking, life will be much more interesting and vastly different from the way life is today,' says Aakar Patel.
Contradictions and loose ends in the alleged incident of gang rape of a call centre employee in Pune have baffled police working on a complaint lodged by the girl's friend.
The British mobile phone operator was widely expected to go for an international arbitration after its talks with the Indian government failed to find a solution last year.
The move, alleged employee sources, started somewhere in mid-January. While at least 80 employees were asked to resign over the past week, one company source asserted that as many as 300 employees were being asked to leave. The company, however, dismissed the employee allegations as pure speculation.
CSC is looking for IBM Mainframe professionals to work for global clients.
The information technology sector in West Bengal is likely to see addition of 20,000 jobs in 2008. The state currently has about 300 small to big sized companies and employs 55,000.
Though a spokesperson of Yahoo! India refused to comment on the development, highly-placed sources within the company claimed that it was a routine "trimming process" and more "poor performers" would be sacked.
Tata Consultancy Services is recruiting Team Members/ Team Leaders/ Project Leaders/ Project Managers for their Delivery/ Solution Centers.
Tim Ringo, the global leader of IBM's human capital management practice, believes organisations that have integrated, end-to-end talent management strategies, processes and technology will have lower attrition rates of top talent.
The sale of the BPO business, run by Citigroup Global Services (formerly e-Serve), is expected to fetch around Rs 3,200 crore for the group. At this price, it will be the largest deal in the domestic BPO space.
The initial focus of the hub will be to formulate marketing strategies and create marketing deliverables for print and online.
The Public Participation Kit is made available by the Society under its five-year Genographic Project, co-funded by IBM and the Tedd Wait Family Foundation.
Lenovo announced on Thursday the launch of its first innovation centre in India in partnership with global giants like Intel, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco, which would focus on the development of new PC solutions.
With regard to faculty requirements at its proposed campuses in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, he said the faculty from Georgia Tech would take care of the teaching requirements in the initial years.
The company has also turned its attention to new markets such as Australia, China, Japan, West Asia, Canada, South America and Latin America.
The pace of job generation has slowed as IT firms look at automation to do testing
: IBM Daksh is recruiting Customer Care Specialists (Tech/ Semi-Tech & customer Support) and Technical Lead.
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
Data localisation, an overarching theme across recent government policy proposals, has been a thorny issue with industry
Modi announced a USD 14-million grant for community development projects in the Caricom and another USD 150 million line of credit for solar, renewable energy and climate- change related projects, a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Asia-Pacific has been the only region to show growth in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market in the first half of 2007.
Daksh, IBM's BPO arm, is looking for Customer Care Specialists (tech/ semi-tech and customer service) and Assistant Managers (operations-voice).
Global IT companies will add around 1.08 lakh employees in India by 2010, by increasing the headcount to 2.73 lakh. This would be a 65.25 per cent increase from the 1.65 lakh employed by the end of 2007.
The industry is non-committal on whether it is particularly vulnerable.
IBM Daksh is looking for Customer Care Specialists (tech/ semi-tech support and customer service).
"We sponsor faculty awards, sabbatical grants, student fellowships, workshops and internships," said IBM India Research Lab Director Dr Daniel Dias.
Indian outsourcers file the most applications for temporary H-1B visas. Are they using them to train staff for jobs abroad?
Daksh, IBM's BPO arm, is looking for Customer Care Specialists (tech/ semi-tech support and customer service) and Assistant Managers (operations).
Leading Indian and global information technology firms such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Cognizant Technology Solutions, IBM, Satyam Computer Services and Wipro top the list of L visa users for the financial year 2006-07.
It's advantage for Indian companies like Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services on the country's information technology services arena over their global peers including the giants like IBM and Accenture
"Software patents are a killer for the economy in the end". It's natural to be surprised at this statement when most major global and Indian information technology firms -- right from IBM, Microsoft, Sun to Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipr
It's no surprise to find Apple and Google at the top of our list, but smaller outfits saw some of the biggest growth.
Nareshchandra Singh, an IT analyst with global research and analyst firm Gartner, takes only a few seconds to reach his office from home.
Neelima Tirumalasetti, a victim of outsourcing, will continue her fight even though a US court has ruled in favour of her former employer.
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