This week, I got an email from our anchor at the corporate blog team that read
Hi Mohan
You’ve not been writing on the MOIT blog, wanted to check with you if you plan to write or I should get the blog archived.
Thanks/Rahil
Reading the note, I realized how long it had been since I posted on this blog; I obviously had a decision to make: should I get this blog archived or should I get back to continually posting here?
Most of us watching the news are probably up-to-date on the Swine Flu outbreak. The Media, bloggers and others are generating awareness . . . and a lot of buzz. I was reflecting on what this mean to those of us in the Business of Globalization. Such epidemics certainly a cause for concern. The way I look at it:
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During the past few weeks, one couldn’t glance through the international headlines without reading about the saga of Piracy unfolding in the Gulf of Aden and at high-seas. To those of us in the software IT services business, another version of this scourge continues to impact us: software piracy.
Given that Piracy is noteworthy and the pirates at sea are operate offshore, I am surprised that some smart alec writer or blogger hasn’t picked up on offshoring piracy. It is probably because large software services firms, Infosys included, take Intellectual property rights seriously. Most have strong policies and guidelines preventing employees, consultants and service providers from indulging in such acts and violations are not tolerated.
Most of us in the technology industry are observing the recent hype over cloud computing, some hoping that it might provide a boost to the tech sector in an otherwise bleak economic climate. And if one goes by the assumption that technology trends peak when the business press begins featuring them, cloud computing must be peaking the hype curve.
As we head into the easter holidays, I decided to catch up on the chatter on cloud computing. I began with Kris Gopalakrishnan`s views express during his trip to Davos for WEF earlier this (Infosys CEO Sees Brightness in Clouds) Wall Street Journal recently featured a story (The Internet Industry Is on a Cloud -- Whatever That May Mean) that begins by explaining “Ever since Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt publicly uttered the term "cloud computing" in 2006, a storm has been gathering over Silicon Valley.”
I am consulting with Enterprise Architects of a multinational client, helping define a framework for EA modeling. An area of emerging interest in the group here is around Business Architecture. The members of the core Enterprise Architecture team are seasoned technologists who also have a good grounding of the enterprise drivers and challenges. While they have grounding in the “Business of IS” it is not necessarily the “business” of the organization, which is to say they are not functional experts in HR, Finance or other operational areas.
After I stopped by this blog last week to cross-post from entry on our EA blog, I was pleasantly surprised to see a ping from Michael, with whom I have exchanged notes in the past. He asks if my perspective has changed as rapidly as the global economic landscape.
Michael, sure my perspective has changed . . . in more ways than one. This said, it is fascinating - though not amusing - to see fellow techies suddenly transform into armchair experts in macro-economics, finance, globalization, free-trade etc etc, all the while wondering “what hit us?,” and “where to go from here?” and most importantly “what does this all mean to me?”
I have been neck-deep in “this and that” and haven’t got the muse to resume blogging back on this forum.
Here is a cross-post from my recent entry on our EA blog based on the recently published Enterprise Architecture Survey which I helped conduct and author.
I will be back soon to continue my observations on Offshoring, Globalization and sourcing
My last post on this blog was a while ago, when I mused about our personal tragedy.…My wife and I have been working hard to get over it, and move on. [Thanks for the sympathy and wishes]. And speaking of getting over, it is not just me… others seem to be needing a hand in getting over their personal and professional crusades; especially because of unfortunate situations that are being exacerbated by both local and geopolitical events: be it the global economic crisis or the geo-political threats from terrorism and wars.
We seem to be living in an increasingly dynamic world where the meaning of risk continues to evolve. One does not have to really blog about the fact that disasters and other emergencies in a flattening world are more common today than perhaps in the past, a fact that hit home recently in the offshoring city [Bomb Blasts Hit India’s IT City Bangalore ]. Thanks in part to the resilience of Bangaloreans, the city bounced back almost instantly.
Middle-managers in sourcing organizations and offshoring firms probably read about the incidents in the news and realized that the disruption to their operations was (thankfully) minimal, reflected on it a bit and went back to their operational challenges. However, technology executives, consultants and sourcing specialists, risk management consultants and others are taking a harder look at the risks and associated risk mitigation strategies
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