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Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIM-B Joins MindTree BoD

Professor Chandra is currently a professor of Operations & Technology Management and the Director at IIM Bangalore.

Apple CEO Says Product Innovation Remains Priority

Tim Cook also promises to periodically review the company's dividend and share repurchase plans.

Service Tax Hike To Put Pressure On Enterprise IT Spend

Whether on the personal front or the impact on IT within their enterprises, the dominating reaction from CIOs is one of disappointment over a lukewarm budget.

CIO Masters 2012: Honouring India's Leading Business Technology Leaders

The CIO Masters have broken barriers and successfully overcome their business challenges by mastering their respective technology domains.

Union Budget 2012-13: Neither Strong Positive Nor Negative

IT Industry reacts to Union Budget 2012-13 saying there's not much in it for them.

Wipro Included In Most Ethical Firms List

Ethisphere evaluated about 5,000 global companies, including all members of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, on reputation, corporate citizenship, culture and other qualities.

What IT Expects From The Finance Minister This Year

Eminent analysts and industry stalwarts share their budget expectations.

Sophos Appoints Kuldeep Raina As Country Manager - India

Kuldeep Raina will lead overall operations to grow revenue and market share in India.

Gregory Bryant Appointed VP And GM, Intel APAC

Bryant is responsible for all sales, marketing and enabling of Intel products in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan and China.

Rajeev Mittal To Lead Avaya's India And SAARC Biz

Responsible for driving business growth across all business segments.

Lessons on CIO Innovation - From Pravir Vohra

ICICI Bank Group CTO Pravir Vohra speaks his heart out on a more loosely used but a hardly understood word 'Innovation'. He also speaks about the bank's IT innovation practices.

Subroto Bagchi Elected As Chairman Of MindTree

Dr. Albert Hieronimus continues on the Board as Vice Chairman.

NetApp Appoints Anil Valluri As President, India And SAARC Ops

As President, Valluri will oversee NetApp sales, marketing and services operations in India and SAARC region.

CIOs' Take On CIO - IT Secretary Collaboration

There is scope for CIO - IT secretary level collaboration. However, joining of hands between the public and private sector has its pros and cons

Indian CIO IT Budgets Outshine Global Counterparts

CIOs in India report that their IT budgets are expected to grow 12.8% in 2012, while CIOs globally expect flat growth, says Gartner survey.

CIO Lessons From The Year That Was

The last year's dynamically changing market environment taught CIOs many valuable lessons. We spoke to IT leaders to understand their key take-away from 2011.

Indian Enterprise IT Spending Will Grow 10.3% In 2012

Indian enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to surpass $39 billion in 2012, says Gartner.

SAP Extends Appointment For Vishal Sikka As Member Of The Executive Board

Tenure of SAP Executive Board member extended to December 31, 2017.

Pace-Layered Application Strategy Can Push Innovation

Gartner report shows pace layers can be used to build a business application strategy that delivers a faster response and a better ROI.

Focus On Being The Leader, Not Mere Competition: Gartner

Gartner analysts examine the key issues around seizing a new competitive advantage by revitalising leadership, management and culture, and leveraging "big culture technologies."

IT Is All About People, Processes And Technology

Ajay Dhir, Group CIO, Lanco Infratech talks about his new role and responsibilities at Lanco Infratech, challenges and the roadmap ahead.

2012: The Year Of Intelligent Business Operations

Organisations have to increase their situational awareness, sharpen their decisions, and quickly respond with goal directed adjustments and results.

Lalit S. Chowdhary Appointed VP-Systems Engineering For Cisco India, SAARC

Lalit's primary responsibility will be to drive Cisco's technological leadership in Borderless Networks, Collaboration and DC and Virtualisation architectures.

Deepak Visweswaraiah Joins NetApp India As VP

Deepak will be responsible for NetApp's Continuous Product Engineering group across the globe.

Tech Spending Strong, Despite Economic Risks and Volatility: IDC

Emerging markets continue to lead the way in tech spending, with BRIC countries showing double-digit growth.

IT Projects Still Not Considered Business Projects

Col. Shankar Gurkha, CIO, Gujarat Industries Power, talks about how CIOs face a tough time convincing their business-end peers about IT projects and other challenges that CIOs battle with in the enterprise.

Understand, Adapt, And Invent Along The Way

Understanding the dynamic market, adapting to its needs, inventing along the way and having an eye for detail is where there is opportunity for expansion and thus, profitability.

What An Idea, Techpedia

Prof. Anil Gupta, Exec. VC, National Innovation Foundation at IIM Ahmedabad talks about Techpedia.in - an aggregation of 150000 ideas sourced from all over the country.

From Group CIO To A Technocrat

As Group CIOs transition into an 'Evolution phase' of becoming CEOs of their IT business, while also handling the CIO office, they will have to move into an orbit of a 'technocrat'

Does The CIO Need To Be 100% Prepared?

As CIOs oscillate between hope and fear, their mental state is akin to the global economy, both of which continue to reel in the pressure cooker situation.