Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 4)

Jim Stikeleather: One of the things that is talked about more and more is that organizations are recognizing more than 80% of the IT budget is spent on keeping the lights on. Instead of being chief information officers people are chief infrastructure officers, and keeping the lights on doesn’t do anything in terms of creating value

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I think your point about business process outsourcing to business functional sourcing is well taken, but you have mentioned different components of that. I would like to understand some of the trends that you see from your perspective. You talked about labor arbitrage, which was obviously the genesis of the industry. Wipro has been

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Sramana: How did you deliver your product? Was it software that you sold or did you host it online? Zafar Khan: That was before cloud computing, but that is essentially how we delivered our solution for people who did not have the ability to download it and install it. Back then we called ourselves an

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 1)

From its humble beginnings as a consumer products business in 1945, Wipro has become a global company that serves customers in IT, BPO and R&D. Although its headquarters remain in Bangalore, India, Wipro has expanded its service horizons to include, North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. 

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I think of a well-articulated framework in the picture. Let’s go into more detail on it. Where are you as Dell, as an organization, along that continuum? How much of that very specialized SARS application, procurement, or positioning is happening in different parts of your organization, and how is it managing that inflow of

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