Will India create the next Google?

We need to think differently in India. We need to think about not being service providers to someone else in the world. We need to think products. Why can’t India create the next Google? What is stopping India from creating the next Yahoo? It is the limitation of vision and partly the lack of marketing and branding which is the next frontier for India. There is not a single global Indian brand or a branded product. We are very good at the components, the ingredients. But we don’t do well going to the next level. Watch the Koreans, the Chinese. The Lenovo experiment is very illustrative in this respect. Lenovo is using the manufacturing prowess of China, the designing capabilities of Taiwan, the branding and distribution capabilities of IBM. That is the name of the game.

Source: http://www.alootechie.com

No.1

Tamil Nadu has won accolades to India. FDI Magazine produced by the renowned Financial Times group, has ranked Tamil Nadu as No.1 in Asia for the best region of the future.

ASIAN CITY OF THE FUTURE:
Winner: Hong Kong
Runner: Sydney

ASIAN REGION OF THE FUTURE:
Winner: Tamil Nadu, India
Runner: New South Wales, Australia

FDI POTENTIAL (CITY):
Winner: Hong Kong
Runner: Busan, Korea

FDI POTENTIAL (REGION):
Winner: Tamil Nadu, India
Runner: Thailand

Competition was closer and the playing field more level in the regions section of fDi’s contest, with the Indian state of Tamil Nadu edging ahead of Australia’s New South Wales to claim the title Asian Region of the Future 2005/06. Tamil Nadu took first place in the all-important category of best FDI potential.

As investors such as Ford, Hyundai, Nokia and, most recently, BMW have discovered to their delight, Tamil Nadu has managed to avoid or mitigate problems that dog other locations in India, such as infrastructure and energy failings. Through pro-active and business friendly government policies, the state has harmonious industrial relations, a matured business culture and abundant skilled manpower.

Things should only get better: several new fly-overs and by-passes are under construction that will ease traffic congestion in heaving Chennai, and an ‘IT Expressway’ project will widen the main access road to that city’s thriving software cluster. This hints at Tamil Nadu’s real secret weapon: Chennai’s IT corridor employs nearly 50,000 people, and this number is set to increase to as much as 90,000 when some of the major IT companies investing there get their operations up and running. more....

Source: http://www.fdimagazine.com

Creativity

Creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing (only God can do that), but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet.


How better can you ask people to save trees?



Even physics can be challenged!

Believe it or not, everyone has substantial creative ability. Just look at how creative children are.


Smart Child. Isn't it?

INDIA == 3 (USA) & INDIA == 2(EUROPE)

In 2005 India produced 200,000 engineering graduates, about three times as many as the United States and twice as many as all of Europe. But the really astonishing statistic is this: In 2005 India enrolled fully 450,000 students in four-year engineering courses, meaning that its output of engineers will more than double by 2009.


As striking as these numbers is the way India is getting there. What's made this engineering takeoff possible is not an increase in the supply of universities financed by taxpayers or foreign donors; it's an increase in demand for education from fee-paying students -- a demand to which entrepreneurs naturally respond. More than four out of five Indian engineering students attend private colleges, whose potential growth seems limitless.


Up to a point, India's success in brain-intensive industries such as software and pharmaceuticals lends substance to this theory: India's government has long invested in a few elite engineering schools, whose graduates are at the heart of the country's high-tech success. But it's also true that this elite pool of engineering excellence counted for little so long as statism stifled India's economy. It was only after market reform began in the 1990s that high-tech India took off.


Of course, India's progress isn't simple. The best engineers get snapped up by industry, so it's hard to find decent teachers to staff engineering schools more....

What is Guts?

It seems it happened in Accenture Bangalore. Currently PSPL is having a funweek and 27th was the traditional day.

Look at this Xtreme Tradition........

Does anyone have the guts to come to office this way ????

Ramayana Reborn

Hollywood's search for new mythologies now extends to the Indian subcontinent.

One of the world's greatest stories, India's Ramayana, is being retold as a post-apocalyptic comic book, in "Ramayana Reborn," with an animated television spinoff for kids titled "The Seven Sounds."

"The Ramayan is the Eastern equivalent of the Odyssey. It is our 'Lord of the Rings,' " says Gotham Chopra, Deepak's 30-year-old son, a former Channel One TV personality, author and producer, and the new venture's chief creative officer more....

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