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A Moveable Feast: Ray of hope PwC’s skunkworks project Ray’s World is a tribute to thinking out of the box Every global consulting company today has digital studios swarming with creative people in outlandish dresses, strange hairstyles and non-conformist thinking. In 2015, I visited the studio of Übermind, which was acquired by Deloitte Consulting and…
The making of a digital Bharat Exactly 20 years ago, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Labs wrote a book called Being Digital. In that book, he distinguished between ‘atoms’ and ‘bits’. Atoms make up physical, tangible objects such as CDs, books and letters. Digital information, on the other hand, is made up of bits, the…
Is India ready for an IT revolution? Bloomberg ATTACHED ALGORITHM: As connected devices proliferate and networks penetrate into remote regions, the potential for IoT solutions and growth in the IoT ecosystem has increased One of my British mentors told me that technology waves are similar to a London red bus. You do not know…
AAP WINDS OF CHANGE: Arvind Kejriwal meets citizens after he was sworn in as Delhi’s chief minister, on December 29, 2013. The electoral success of AAP based on the promise of eradication of corruption has changed the mainstream discourse Developing countries have been suffering from corruption and draining of financial resources for a very long…
Adapting to the changing times Bloomberg TOP NOTCH: Craig Federighi, vice president of software engineering at Apple, speaks during the keynote of the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California, US, on June 10 “As the present now, Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now Will…
There is no doubt that innovation is the mantra for survival in a constantly changing and uncertain world. And, yet, the best brains innovate and research for causes that do not change the world for those who are economically disadvantaged. When Bill Gates came back to Harvard Business School (HBS) to pick up his degree,…
In the 1960s the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz, a pioneer of the chaos theory, discovered, more or less by chance, that the mathematical models for the weather system were extremely sensitive to initial conditions. His discovery came to be known as the “butterfly effect”. A popular version of the theory: a butterfly flapping its wings…
Transform by putting Bengal First Transformation (Roopantar) involves change (Paribartan). But it is much deeper and more profound. Change can be from bad to worse. Transformation follows a predictable pattern–like the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. It is a process not an event. What should we do to transform Bengal? There…
Nehru, Tagore, Tan Beyond Hindi-Chini buy buy China is no doubt one of India’s top two trading partners along with the US. In 2010, it is expected that the two-way trade volumes will exceed $60 billion. During his visit to India earlier this month, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao announced in Delhi that the collective target…
Published in mydigitalfc.com (http://www.mydigitalfc.com) Join hands to clean viper’s nest Dec 09 2008 Roopen Roy We’re in the same boat brother, / We’re in the same boat brother, And if you shake one end, / You gonna rock the other / It’s the same boat brother…. The fear and shock of the dastardly attacks…