NOV 08 How telecom can empower rural India
Telecom and network connectivity have widely been seen as enablers of a nation's socio-economic growth; a McKinsey study cites that a 10% increase in teledensity contributes to 0.6% of GDP growth. Though urban India is reaping the benefits of the telecom revolution, rural teledensity is still low, at only 8%.
Naresh Wadhwa
President and Country Manager
Cisco India & SAARC.
NOV 08 The virtual corporation
Imagine an executive who needs to pull together an impromptu meeting with a globally dispersed team simply clicking on a link that transforms the sides of his office into display screens. He then interacts with clear, 3-D-like images of his counterparts-one in China working from home, one in India traveling in a car, and one in the United Kingdom sitting outside in a park.
Wim Elfrink
Executive Vice President, Cisco Services & Chief Globalization Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
SEP 08 Innovation as a process
Aspiring innovators frequently confuse invention from innovation. While both involve creativity to create a new product, process, idea, or thinking, innovation is more than that. After creating something new, innovation would make it a reality through action and implementation. In many ways, one can say that innovation is organized invention.
Aravind Sitaraman
VP & Managing Director
Cisco Development Organization, India
AUG 08 Supporting business requirements throughout the network lifecycle
The world around us is evolving from a place where networking was about connectivity to one where networking is intelligent, and where it plays a vital role in improving business performance and processes. As business and technology grow ever more closely aligned, the network is evolving into a strategic platform, for agility and better integration of people, information, and ideas.
G.B. Kumar
Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Cisco India & SAARC
AUG 08 The art of acquiring growth in a globalised world
As the information technology revolution, driven by globalisation, sweeps through the emerging economies it is spurring innovation and allowing the creation of unexpected and disruptive business models. Traditional borders are fading away as markets for products, services, and labor become integrated around the world.
Wim Elfrink
Executive Vice President, Cisco Services & Chief Globalization Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
AUG 08 Broadening horizons
Traditionally, companies focused on investments in research and development, marketing, and sales for one purpose - to make customers successful. By pouring money into research and innovation aimed at increasing value of their products, managing product life cycles, evangelizing product suites and capabilities, and motivating their channels and sales force with appropriate incentives, companies and their customers were immensely successful.
Aravind Sitaraman
VP & Managing Director
Cisco Development Organization, India
JUL 08 How globalization is helping companies leverage emerging markets for growth
Thomas Friedman in his book ‘The World is Flat’ captured the essence of today’s new era of globalization. Globalization has made our world smaller. As the markets for products, services, labor, and capital increasingly integrate worldwide, we are witnessing the increasing economic, cultural, demographic, political, and environmental interdependence of different locations around the world.
Wim Elfrink
Executive Vice President, Cisco Services & Chief Globalization Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
JUL 08 Trespassers will be recruited
The war for talent is only growing more intense by the day and though India has the demographic advantage, the shortfall of skilled workers is worrying. Industry-academia alliances are the need of the hour to make the professional academic courses more industry relevant and hence fill the talent gap.
Naresh Wadhwa
President and Country Manager
Cisco India & SAARC
JUL 08 Spurring local innovation for global growth
With the retail landscape across India changing at a rapid pace, the Indian customer is looking beyond the quality of product offering, price, after sales service, ease of use and total cost of ownership, and demanding business value. In such a context a keen insight into the customer’s business problems and how these can be addressed, will help retain the customer.
Naresh Wadhwa
President and Country Manager
Cisco India & SAARC
JUN 08 Evolving from a vendor to trusted advisor
An IT vendor who is able to supply the required hardware remains what he is – an IT vendor. However, a vendor who makes recommendations and offers service solutions that go beyond the customer's current needs while taking into consideration the direction, scalability, response time, logistics, geography, and growth plan turns into a trusted advisor.
Ajay Goel
Senior Vice President - Industry Business, Strategy, Operations
Cisco India & SAARC
MAY 08 Globalisation and networked economy: A virtuous cycle
The world is recognizing the strong correlation between technology and global competitiveness. As the information technology revolution sweeps through the emerging economies, driven by globalization, it is spurring innovation and allowing the creation of unexpected and disruptive business models.
Wim Elfrink
Executive Vice President, Cisco Services & Chief Globalization Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
APR 08 Talent a strategic priority, training a crucial tool
Simply focusing on the top talent might backfire for globalizing companies, as the average employee is crucial for sustaining the company's success. Strategic training gains importance in developing talent in this segment.
Aravind Sitaraman
VP & Managing Director
Cisco Development Organization, India
APR 08 Intelligent networks: A competitive differentiator in customer service
Differentiating products and solutions has become crucial in order to survive in an increasingly competitive world. It is an established fact that customers are happiest with human interaction and 'Intelligent Networking' plays a crucial part in making this possible.
G.B. Kumar
Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Cisco India & SAARC
MAR 08 Channel vision: 2010
With its channel programme widely considered the best in the industry, Cisco recognizes it as a big competitive advantage. Continued investment to enable partners' transformation is the best way to build capacity, expand capabilities, and enhance loyalty only logical next step.
Naresh Wadhwa
President and Country Manager
Cisco India & SAARC
MAR 08 Being customer focused: The customer advocacy imperative
Rapid strides in technology have rendered established push/pull marketing useless and even highly touted customer relationships are failing. With the accelerating growth of customer power, customer advocacy has become the need of the hour.
G.B. Kumar
Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Cisco India & SAARC
NOV 07 Developing networking talent: Educational initiatives by Cisco India
Aiding the creation and empowerment of the Indian knowledge workers is a vital focus for Cisco India. Making use of our market strength, industry experience, and business acumen, a broad range of economic, educational, and social initiatives have been undertaken as a part of the endeavor.
Naresh Wadhwa
President and Country Manager
Cisco India & SAARC
NOV 07 Transform your business with next generation collaboration solutions
The new internet driven revolution has enabled an entirely new level of instant, complex collaboration across the global human network with many organizations harnessing the power of technology to do business across borders. This global collaboration will continue to fundamentally change business models, relationships, political networks, innovation, and learning.
Ajay Goel
Senior Vice President - Industry Business, Strategy, Operations
Cisco India & SAARC
