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New Value Leadership Group Strategy Paper

India: An Emerging Research Cluster

By Professor Srinivasa Rangan

Professor Rangan provides cutting-edge insights into the strategies companies are applying to leverage the emerging scientific research cluster in India.

This paper is based on a global Value Leadership Group next practice strategic research project involving the research centers of more than 20 companies in India including Philips, ABB, Motorola, HP, GM, and the Tata Group.

Professor Rangan’s paper builds on his work of almost 10 years with Professor Michael Porter at Harvard University.

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The New Competitive Paradigm in European IT Services – Global Strategy Conference
in Stockholm

In June 2007, the Swedish investment bank, Handelsbanken Capital Markets, and the Value Leadership Group, hosted a global strategy conference in Stockholm. The theme of the conference was – The New Competitive Paradigm in European IT Services.

The Value Leadership Group provided exclusive analysis and CEOs from industry leaders gave important new insights into the competitive dynamics and likely future direction of the European IT services industry.

More than 125 senior executives from 18 countries and a cross section of industries were in attendance. Delegates and speakers gave this event the highest ratings.

Click here to download a 1-page anaylsis of the conference

Does your Offshoring
strategy create differentiation
and greater business value?

Read an exclusive interview on offshoring strategy with Peter Schumacher.

Best practice companies – regardless of size – are those that leverage offshoring to do things they would not be able to do otherwise. You can entrepreneurially rethink your business and implement organizational and service innovations.

Companies that are not thinking about offshoring strategically are likely to miss this opportunity.

This interview was released in Belgium in July 2008 in “Offshore Update” a publication of Applied Development, continental Europe’s first venture funded offshore services firm.

Click here to download the 1-page interview in English Language

Click here to download the 1-page interview in Belgian-Dutch Language

Value Leadership Group in the news

Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Apr 17, 2009

Tech Mahindra nominees brace for Satyam challenge

Mr. Vineet Nayyar
Adith Charlie

Mumbai, April 16 The four Tech Mahindra nominees tipped to be on the board of Satyam Computer Services will have to dip into every chapter of their 115 years of collective experience as they begin their new innings.

They not only have to turn Satyam into an EBITDA positive company, but also ensure Tech Mahindra’s own clientele that the buyout will not impact its commitments to timeliness and service delivery, analysts feel.

Since the structure and the nature of the two businesses (Satyam and Tech Mahindra) are very different, their integration is going to be tricky, Mr. Anthony Miller, Managing Partner with analyst house TechMarketView, has been quoted as saying by silicon.com

“It is going to take up a lot of Tech Mahindra’s time while they try to make the business work and that could have an impact on their customers and BT (Tech Mahindra’s largest customer),” he told the Web site.

On Wednesday, Tech Mahindra had sought CLB’s permission for allowing it to induct Mr. Vineet Nayyar (Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tech Mahindra), Mr. Ulhas N. Yargop (Director), Mr. Sanjay Kalra (President - Strategic Initiatives), and Mr. C.P. Gurnani (President - International Operations) on Satyam’s board.

Mr. Peter Schumacher, Founder-President and CEO of the US-based Value Leadership Group, feels that Tech Mahindra’s executive management has more experience managing a firm like Satyam than Tech Mahindra itself.

“This is a highly capable management team with the diversified experience to lead an IT services firm with the broad business portfolio of Satyam,” he said.

Individual portfolios

Interestingly, three of the four persons mentioned above have had associations with the Noida-based HCL in their previous avatars. The 70-year-old Mr. Nayyar previously has served as the Managing Director of HCL Corporation Ltd and HCL Perot Systems. For him the new responsibility comes at an interesting point of his 40-year-career especially when he is expected to retire at the end of this fiscal. With the Satyam buy, his exit looks highly unlikely as Mr. Anand Mahindra is already short of experienced hands to run the Satyam-Tech Mahindra combine.

Mr. Kalra spearheads the BT relationship, R&D services for telecom equipment manufacturers and transformation/business process reengineering services. Prior to joining Tech Mahindra, he was the Chief Executive Officer of DSL Software (a joint venture between HCL and Deutsche Bank), which is focused on IT and BPO solutions to Capital Markets. Mr. Sanjay Kalra, according to Mr. Schumacher, managed the Deutsche Software operation and grew this from almost nothing to a few thousand headcount.

Mr. Gurnani spearheads Tech Mahindra’s Global Operations, Sales and Marketing functions along with development of Competency & Solution Units. Prior to Tech Mahindra, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Founder of Perot Systems (India) Ltd, initially set up as HCL Perot Systems.

Mr. Yargop serves as the President of Telecom & Software Sector of M&M. Previously he was Treasurer of the company and General Manager of the erstwhile Mahindra-Ford.

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