Persistent Systems Blog

I travel regularly to meet our customers. Normally, we work with the VP Engineering and the CTO of product Companies.  I meet them regularly and most of the time our meetings are technical discussions or discussions about specific projects we may be working on.
As the market was slow, most of our customers were not in [...]

After the market slowed down in October 2008, many of our customers decided to reduce their “burn-rates” and this decision impacted our business.  While it was tempting to go out and look for new markets and customers at this time, we decided that it was prudent for us to spend the time with our existing [...]

Seasons’ Greetings to all of you.  It has been some time since I updated my blog and I thought of taking advantage of Diwali season to revive the blog.

I am a big fan of Ram Charan’s books and have read every single one. Sometime back, I read his latest - Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty. This is an excellent book and has good practical tips on things to do in difficult conditions. 
The book has very clear suggestions for every major function [...]

I would like to congratulate the organizers of the CSI India IT2020 conference in Mumbai for organizing the event despite all odds.
They had a registration of more than 350 people and the event was very well organized. I have always been impressed by the dedication and the efforts of the CSI Mumbai team lead by [...]

I had written on December 19, 2008 in my post -  “Powering Business Through Innovation” that we were the top 5 finalists for the NASSCOM Innovation Award.
I am very pleased to note that we have won the NASSCOM Innovation Award 2008!

I attended the TiE Nagpur event which was held on Feb 2-3. Prof. C.K. Prahalad was the keynote speaker. His talks are always extremely thought provoking.
He talked about India @75 and how entrepreneurs (in the context of TiE) can make a difference to this vision. He was very clear that we must focus on innovation to [...]

I have always believed in the ACM India Council and have been a member since 1987. I have subscribed to their digital library and read the communications of the ACM and ACM SIGMOD records on a regular basis.
It would be good if we could establish a strong presence for ACM in India.

I read Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ recently. I like his writing style and I find his examples and observations very thought provoking. While all the examples are compelling and Gladwell’s writing style helps in making a strong point, I am not quite ready to generalize the conclusions drawn.
I was most intrigued by Chapter Seven – The [...]

I committed to my friend M. D. Agrawal that I will do a workshop at the CSI India IT 2020 Conference in Mumbai on Collaboration Techniques and Tools.
When I signed up about six months back, I did not know much about this subject but was generally curious. I find that committing to prepare a tutorial [...]