Wipro - Lack of competency

April 27, 2008 · Filed Under appointments, corporate darkroom, firing · 17 Comments 

From one of our readers

You would have just heard that Wipro again went through a re-org wherin they appointed Suresh Vaswani and Girish Pranjapye as joint CEO. The fact is that due to this another re-org is emminent at the levels below. While top honches are dividing the org cake, the Wipro customers and employees are going through a torrent time. While this year it is a big change at top, but every year around last Quarter and first Wipro does this. The reason being that they are unable to get their act together. They do this by chewing away value added horizontals and verticals in the name of optimization and efficiency. But the fact is they are cutting away their investments into technology and solutions. The result is diluted core competency in technology and services. Going forward you are likely to see host of delivery and competent resource issues in customer engagments and projects. For a org like Wipro which like it peers is recuriting almost 95% of freshers every year the best structure would be to have dedicated and independent technology services unit to build competency around the technologies. Going forward please be beware of who wipro puts in your projects as they would be freshers. You should ensure to interview each one of the people to safegaurd your projects. Don’t get sucked into the Gyan of “Managed Delivery Model” or delivery based etc. Customers it is your risk and your Business that you need to safegaurd and ensure the quality of service. So far dedicated delivery org, CMM levels, Sig sigma, Comprehensive/Compulsory training programs that Wipro has preached has not worked for most of its customer. They are selling value and do not add anything to their delivery capability, The CSAT rating that it preaches about is completely an eye wash dont fall for this or other KPI’s. Best id to manage your own projects and use companies like Wipro as resource centers, but make sure to interview and verify each resource you take. It may be time consuming but is value and say “No more fancy re-org”

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Bangalore techie goes missing

April 19, 2008 · Filed Under corporate darkroom · 2 Comments 

Mumbai police have launched a manhunt to trace a 28-year-old software engineer from Bangalore, who went missing from CST railway station on April 11. Meghna Subhedar was en route to Bilaspur in Chhatisgarh via Mumbai.Meghna’s father Dr Mohan Subhedar said his daughter was a little depressed after her recent divorce. “She was also looking out for another job with better opportunities. In between, she decided to visit us in Chhatisgarh.”

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What’s wrong with Infosys?

April 18, 2008 · Filed Under corporate darkroom · 44 Comments 

Received by Email from our reader

1) Number of patents obtained in last 10 years - ZERO

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CTS BPO

April 17, 2008 · Filed Under appreciation · 7 Comments 

Message from the editor 

After a longtime we had this nice appreciation post we should say from one of our readers: 

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Bangalore home to highest average pay scale: Report

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under corporate light · Comment 

Bangalore continues to rule the roost in terms of highest pay scale, followed by Chennai, Pune and NCR, a recent study by management research and consultancy firm, Zinnov, has revealed.

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Let us EXPOSE misdeeds of COMPANIES also

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under corporate darkroom, firing · 4 Comments 

From our readers 

On one hand I think I think it is good for the industry to expose manipulated CV, while on the other hand I think the move is onely one sided and more good can be for industry if we expose the other half as well. Let us try to expose the companies as well. If Companies are exposing the misdeeds of People to other Companies why not expose misdeeds of Companies to other People( I mean existing/propective employees as well as Clients).

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