IS & Globalisation
Going global through digital technology
May 19, 2008, Deccan Herald
This article talks about the fact that trading in tea is all set to go digital away from the traditional system which involves the presence of middlemen. Over the past few years, the plummeting tea prices and the continued erosion of margins by traders meant that the actual tea growers continued to be worse of.
TCS bells the cat
February 7, 2008, Shyamal Majumdar, Business Standard
Information technology companies have been traditionally excellent paymasters and yearly hikes for employees in this sector have often outperformed other sectors. However, it seems that external pressures like the rising rupee are having significant impact on the growth of IT salaries and a distinct slowdown can be expected. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the IT bellwether has provided an indication of the changed environment by effecting a small reduction in their employees pay cheques based on company performance, something which is very rare in the Indian information technology sector.
The persistence of traditional gender roles in the Information Technology sector: A study of female engineers in India
2005, Reena Patel and Mary Jane C. Parmentier, MIT Press Journal
As women in India enter the rapidly expanding Information Technology (IT) workforce, it could be predicted that their active participation in this sector will change their socio-economic status within the employing organization and the communities in which they reside. It is often expected that women's participation in the professional realm will contribute to a breakdown of traditional gender roles. And indeed, the data illustrate that women are working in the IT sector in India in increasing numbers.
Citigroup's BPO arm on block
May 18, 2007, Times of India
While multinationals are rushing into India to take advantage of the IT boom, one company, Citigroup has decided to put up it's BPO (Citigroup Global Services) up for sale. The company has decided to do this after finding it difficult to keep its costs down, arising out of rising salaries and advertising costs.
Slowdown in sight, Indian IT firms cutting exposure to US
April 28 , 2007, Indian Express
Anticipating a slowdown in the US economy, Indian software companies have started to reduce their dependence on the US market and diversify to newer markets. Though some IT companies feel that India might actually stand to benefit from a slowdown, which according to IMF's World Economic Outlook expects US growth rate to fall to 2.2 per cent from 3.3 per cent in 2006.
