One of my favorite sports writers - Bill Simmons of ESPN has op-ed his weekly column this week with Malcom Gladwell of “Blink” and “Tipping Point” fame. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060302 they talk about why some athletes...

The importance of the World Economic Forum cannot be overstated. Over the years it has become one of the major podiums for CEOs whether it is simply to take a gloabl stage or if it is to lobby international governments for special interests or if it is...

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968089.htm The article talks about C.K Prahalad - the motivator behind the push to the "bottom of the pyramid". this topic has been well publicised so I wont go into the details but here are a couple of...

I am not a financial analyst, I don’t play one on TV and neither did I stay in Holiday inn express last night but I would like to ponder on the valuation of a certain business model. There is so much clamoring for a piece of the advertising pie that I...

Ever heard of the "Long Tail of the market" ? This phenom is ringing bells recenlty in discussions around the residual value of content aggregation businesses and how content providers like goog derive value etc. I found this useful in thinking about...

Guy Kawasaki writes about the mistakes Entrepreneurs usually make Here are a couple I thought were funny - “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.” This is not isolated to startups. We see it every day in valuating new business opportunties...

1. Writing is much harder than "thinking" 2. I have a much more acute problem of attention disorder than my friends and my wife give me grief on 3. MS Word can be "very" annoying 4. "Search" technologies are in their infancy 5. It *does* rain a lot in...

Here is a quick list of books that I am either currently reading or have just read in the last 6 months or so: 1. The Next Global Stage: Kenichi Ohmae 2. The 86% solution 3. Blue Ocean Strategies 4. The World is Flat 5. The Competitive advantage of...

I am doing some research on how RSS can be used in non consumer scenarios. For ex, Can RSS be used to create an alarm management platform in a process control system or can it be used to deliver information to financial services clients from content providers...

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html From the Economist - "The idea is as audacious as it noble: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest parts of the world. The first step to making that happen is whittling...

I just witnessed someone in my company move from being a Group Manager to a Director to a Senior Director to a General Manager all in less than 3 years. This prompted me to think about what might the secret recipe to corporate success and here is my shot...

The book I am reading right now is called "Blue Ocean Strategies". It talks about how companies should focus on developing new markets and fundamentally change the game rather than focus its energy on "Red Oceans" which denotes existing market place where...

good article on business week on retaining talent. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_41/b3954001.htm They use Schlumberger as the primary example for good practices in encouraging a global workforce. I have worked with SLB for a long...

I am working on a book called "the New Silk Route - Software for Emerging Economies". This book is intended to raise the awareness of the market opportunity for software companies in the emerging markets. The book will serve as a catalyst to companies...

Fascinating study done by Harvard Business School on economics behind the Open source movement and its implications on Microsoft – unlike other partisan reviewers, the authors are accomplished professors who look at the issue from an unusual angle – formal...

Express Computers - India's leading IT magazine published one of my articles recently http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20050704/technology02.shtml “Do or do not—there is no try,” says the Yoda but “doing” software to address the new world order...

Top 40 masters of technology and innovation - whatever that means ! http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/wired40.html

A 4 page article about Evangelists in Microsoft appears in today’s Economic Times – India’s leading Business Daily. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1066223.cms I work in this group in Redmond. As the article talks about, it is a position...

A 4 page article about Evangelists in Microsoft appears in today’s Economic Times – India’s leading Business Daily. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1066223.cms I work in this group in Redmond. As the article talks about, it is a position...

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111196625830690477,00.html?mod=todays_us_page_one

A must see presentation from the famous KPCB partner behind Amazon.com and Google - http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/msande472/050202-msande472-100.asx

I am looking to hire a Senior Program Manager in my group with very strong product dev/management experience. Here is a link to the job description http://www.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=4cbca109-9f9c-4279-b7a6-a7808e6d3105 Here is...

Microsoft is working on this concept called "Software Factories" which is intented to introduce meta data based software development using Domain specific langugages. http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/overview/softwarefactories/

I have co authored an article with a colleague of mine, Sanjay Katyal and it was published in this quarter's CRM Project publication. It deals with the re-emergence of CRM and investigates the macro trends that are affecting CRM industry today. Here is...

For those hard core CRM heads out there- here is a new test concept from Disney - Pal mickey or “Mickey Me” if they had asked me to name it. Pal Mickey is a tour guide on steroids - well actually on wi-fi . Providing context sensitive information...