“CONTINUUM
-2005: The Annual seminar series”
at Shailesh
J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay
It
gives us immense pleasure to introduce “CONTINUUM
-2005: The Annual seminar series” at Shailesh J Mehta School of
Management, IIT Bombay.
CONTINUUM covers the latest in management trends and brings together
leading personalities from the corporate and academic worlds on a single
platform.
CONTINUUM
specifically focuses on the issues and challenges faced by a particular
business function, and aims to draw insights from the knowledge and
experiences of the participating speakers. The event has grown from
strength to strength over the years, and is now very well acknowledged
by both the industry and the academia.
To
set the ball rolling this year, we commence with the annual IT Seminar
-"Systems CONTINUUM -2005" on Feb 5th and 6th,
2005.
The
theme of “Systems
CONTINUUM – 2005” is "IT - The Road Ahead", the
focus of which is upon:
-
Tapping
New Service Lines
Indian IT companies are moving up the value chain by offering
services such as IT consulting; Network infrastructure management;
Systems integration; Network consulting and integration; Packaged
Software Support and Installation.
What does this change signify? What does it take to succeed? Where
are we moving to?
-
Targeting
High Potential Verticals
Indian companies are now aggressively targeting emerging and nascent
verticals such as Retail, Telecom Service Providers, Energy &
Utilities, Transportation, e-governance, Education and Healthcare
apart from traditional verticals like financial services, telecom
and manufacturing.
Are we ready to handle these new emerging domains? Do we have the
expertise? What are the verticals that look promising?
-
Growing
the Inorganic Way (Mergers and Acquisitions)
2004 has emerged by far the most hectic year in M&As by
front-line Indian software companies to acquire foreign companies
with deal sizes ranging from $1 m- $70 Million.
Is M&A the new buzzword for growth? Is it a strategy for
building strong presence in the West by means of global branding? Is
it the next step for large software companies to acquire vertically
focused overseas firms and grow bigger?
-
Building
on the great success of Outsourcing (ITES-BPO)
As
the pressure to cut costs increase and the opposition to outsourcing
diminishes does the emergence
of ITES-BPO sector signify the beginning of a new era?
What
are the challenges ITES-BPO will face? What are the opportunities
they can exploit?
-
Tapping
Product-centric opportunities
While India has been able to establish its strong credentials in the
IT services arena, India has not been able to make a dent in the
software products market. India has only been able to capture a
meager 0.2% of the US$ 180 billion market.
Why is it that the Indian companies do not make such products as
MsOffice, Oracle DB, CA Brightstor etc? Should there be a paradigm
shift for this to happen? What is it that takes to be a successful
product company?
CONTINUUM
2005 aspires to provide answers to these questions by offering a
platform for interaction
and debate, and an avenue for presenting a future roadmap for IT
industry.
This edition of systems CONTINUUM brings one face to face with
-
Arindham
Basu (Vice
President,
Kanbay)
-
Guru
Malladi
(IT
advisory services, Ernst &Young)
-
Jessie
Paul
(Head
of Marketing, iGate Global Solutions)
-
Milind
Padalkar
(VP,
Patni Computer Systems)
-
Paramesh
Vaidyanathan
(Director,
Developers Tools Group, Microsoft)
-
Prasad
Kulkarni (Senior
Partner, KPMG)
-
Ramesh
Padmanabhan
(COO,
MPhasis BFL)
-
Ranjit
Samra
(Executive
Director, Morgan Stanley)
-
Sangita
Singh
(Chief
Marketing Officer, Wipro Technologies)
-
Sunil
Joshi
(VP,
Global Delivery, Mahindra British Telecom)
-
Vikas
Keni
(GM,
Delivery Unit (Insurance), Mastek)
CONTINUUM
2005 – Other Details
Date:
5th
of February, 2005
6th of
February, 2005
Venue:
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay.
Topic:
IT- The Road Ahead
Website:
http://www.som.iitb.ac.in/events/sysconti/index.htm
Email:
seminar@som.iitb.ac.in
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