By Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj, CIO, , Laureate Education India
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2002, began offering all of its undergraduate courses available online for free. In 2011, an American study claimed that 45 percent of college students couldn’t demonstrate any increase in knowledge after their first two years of traditional college. In the same year, driven by the ... Read More
By Pavan Kumar Malladi, CIO & Director-IT, , Dhiraagu
Lost in translation: Is it communication skills of CIO or competence mix in executive teams that is the problem?
A chairman of a very large semiconductor giant very recently gave advice on how CIO’s can communicate with the board and executives. The summary of what he said was very similar to what is being written across the board ... Read More
By Ferry Chung, Vice President, Smart and Safe City Centre of Excellence of NCS
Singapore has gone through rapid industrialisation and modernisation to become a thriving metropolis with a vibrant knowledge economy over the past five decades. Indeed, IT has played a significant role in these developments, from a full-scale computerisation of its civil service since 1981, to the strong foundation laid over the past 10 y ... Read More
By Anantha Radhakrishnan, CEO & MD, Infosys BPO
Business process management (BPM) or business process outsourcing as it was once known, has come a long way. A sunrise industry fifteen years ago, it has been characterized by several distinct phases on its journey of growth. Today, BPM is on the threshold of a new phase of revolution which promises to be the most unique and interesting pe ... Read More
By William McLemore, CIO, Landmark Aviation
The promise of cost reductions and economies of scale achieved through virtualization has lured many technology leaders into a morass before charting a path forward on solid grounds. Indeed, virtualization is a great tool to tame the ever present pressure of expectations to do more with less.
Unfortunately, attempting to virtualize ever ... Read More
