CEO Express- Making Info More Accessible

Some years ago, I came across CEO Express for the first time. Good to see the improvements made since then.

It is called a “Business Portal for Executives Created by a Busy Executive”. Patricia M. Pomerleau, President and CEO, CEOExpress Company, has made it possible for the executive to have virtually all information needs easily accessible in this portal.

A wide variety of links- ranging from Daily News & Info, Business Research to Office Tools & Travel make it a comprehensive portal.

Here are some favourable reports about CEO Express from the press.

A useful site to visit – even for non-members. Members, of course, get many more benefits.

India: Largest Employee Base for Many Companies

India continues to be the largest employee base for many multinational companies. The talent pool and cost advantages make it a preferred destination as borne out by a recent article in the Economic Times.

When it comes to headcount, Indian talent beats other geographies in numbers, quality and efficiency as well as technological prowess. Many MNCs have been hiring people aggressively in India and now have more than 50% of their workforce working out of this country.

Cognizant, Sapient, Aricent and Xansa are some examples. Is it true that there are more HP employees in Bangalore than any other city in the world?

Top 20 IT Employers

The Dataquest-IDC Survey of the Best Employers in the IT industry has been released.

2,844 software, hardware and marketing professionals took part in the 7th annual Dataquest-IDC survey. They were from 33 IT companies, totally employing 3,04,834 people in 7 cities.

TCS retained the No. 1 position followed by HCL Infosystems, iGate, RMSI and Synechron. IBM was rated the sixth best employer, followed by Capgemini, Infosys, Tavant Technologies and Sun Microsystems.

Lunch 2.0..That’s Cool !

The lengths that employers go to in their efforts to track talent finds newer and more interesting forms day by day.

Anjali Athavaley writes in the Wall Street Journal of a new phenomenon: Lunch 2.0.
What started in the Silicon Valley has apparently spread to Seattle and Germnany with new groups being formed in places as far away as Los Angeles and Bangalore.

This is another example of the power of networking.

Who said there was nothing like a free lunch?

Freakonomics

Enjoyed reading “Freakonomics“ by Stevan D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The description of the book: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything.

Written in a very simple and lucid style, the book brings out many startling observations made by the authors Stevan Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Levitt is the Alvin Baum Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Dubner is a writer for the New York Times.

Economics, they write, at root is the study of incentives; how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing! An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.

There are three basic flavours of incentives: economic, social and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties.

“Freakonomics” has major lessons for people who manage businesses and people!

India Inc in Fortune

India’s growing economy and interest created across the global business world in India as a market is reflected in the India Inc page in Fortune. Key for progress will be improvements needed in infrastructure.

The Round Table on India’s infrastructure issues features Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys; Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman, Autodesk; Dominic Barton, Chairman for Asia for McKinsey and Manvinder Banga, President of Unilevers Foods Division.

A 2005 study by Morgan Stanley concluded that, “the single most important macro constraint on the Indian economy, holding back its average growth, is the low spending on infrastructure.”

The panelists have given their views on the issues facing India. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in India and business in India.