Thought Garage

There was so much pressure on Indian IT Services firms for a long time to enter product space and they refused and insisted that Services is the key. After all, their strength and  innovation is in creating market driven and efficient service delivery models.  They not only succeeded with flying colors in delivering services, they influenced the entire world to turn to services. So in more than one way, there were right on about services.  Some key milestones that indicate the strong inclination towards services just the way Indian IT Services headed all along: IBM once synonymous with PC sells its iconic PC Business and rebrand itself as IT services (or emphatically Smart Solutions for the planet) HP buys EDS and says it is critical to enter Services business as profits drop in all other directions. Dell buys Perot Systems, seen as following HP. Xerox , the iconic innovator buys Affiliated Computer Services, citing exactly the same reason of survi...

  “Reinvention and Wipro go hand-in-hand ..” – Wipro.com The story of Wipro looks like a fairy tale in many aspects. Think about a vegetable oil refining company (started in 1945) that re-invents itself as one of the world’s best IT services firm. It has been a long way and Wipro continue to amaze me in more than one aspect. Its integrity at first and its no drama, straight forward business acumen. (unlike other celebrities across the street that were never able to walk their talk). Though I left Wipro a while back, I continue to follow it. Here are some new developments that kind of surprised me a bit. New Front Page Online If you look at the new Wipro.com website, one may mistake Wipro for a brand new startup that is trying to define its identity. Though the company is little older than the Independent India itself, in a way, Wipro appears to be doing the same. Home page with a full blown illustration that projects Wipro as the agent that changes the new world o...

I heard this morning that Wipro is cutting salaries any where between 30-40% across the board to adjust itself to global recession.  I also heard from friends in Wipro, the company is also laying off. And this news came as a total surprise that Wipro is continuing to recruit at College campuses. Not sure, how the offers are being given, Wipro is known to postpone joining dates until 'conditions' improve. Wipro will hold an exclusive campus drive for B.Sc. final year students at Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy Chowdhary College in Guntur on Sunday. For details, contact Y. Suresh Babu on phone No. ... Source: Campus recruitment

Top 25 Consumers of H1B in 2007 (that account to almost 20,000 Visas) now have to speak up about how they use H1B applicants.  Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley have sent letters to these companies seeking answers to an array of questions that will reveal how these companies use H1B petitions. Click here to view a copy of the letter . I guess, this is particularly relevant in the wake of two new bills submitted to increase the numerical limitation on H1Bs. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter  today to the top 25 recipients of approved H-1B visa petitions in 2007, seeking detailed information on how each firm uses the visa program. These firms were responsible for nearly 20,000 of the available H-1B visas last year. Infosys Technologies Ltd., Wipro Limited, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Cognizant Tech Solutions, Microsoft Corporation, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Pat...