Year: 2005
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Differentiate or Die: Survival in our era of Killer Competition (by Jack Trout)
Briefly the essence of the book is this. Brands can differentiate their product/service offerings on nine distinct parameters. 1. First to the market2. leadership3. Heritage4. Preferences of customer groups5. Latest in the market6. A particular attribute based7. Market specialty8. Hottest9. Way product/service is made Read reviews on Amazon
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Harbinger to more Offshoring from Germany?
> A few days before I posted the previous blog on Germany Offshoring, DB became the largest non-promoter holder in one of the Top-5 Indian IT companies, HCL Technologies. Could this be a harbinger to Germany for more strategic investments inIndian IT and BPO industry? —————————————-Deutsche Bank forays into tech via HCL stake NEW DELHI:…
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Offshoring in Germany
> Recent Article in Mckinsey – “How Germany can win from Offshoring” is the latest in a series of articles on benefits of Offshoring. Mckinsey believes Germany will not be able to gain as much as US fromoffshoring jobs to India or Eastern Europe. The key reasons beinginflexible Labor laws and negligible capital investments in…
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Future of Software
> How will the Software industry transform in 2005 and beyond? Information Week article on “Future of Software” points the direction. Componentization, Vendor consolidation in mature segments such as ERP, origin of next cycle of new applications , Web services fuelling the growth of utility based pricing models for software products etc. However, a few…