Early training gives a winning edge
Employers should train young talent at an early stage in their career, to make them highly competent and confident to take up additional responsibilities, says NK Marwah

Mindset for change
With the emergence of increasingly new challenges, managers need to give up long held assumptions and practices, and replace them with a new mindset and behaviour, believes PN Rastogi

Well documented patterns reduce future labour
In software development process each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again and then provides the core of the solution, explains Dr R Srinivasan

Where transparency is a team building exercise
Established in 1987, Himachal Futuristic Commun-ications (HFCL) is better known for being an employee friendly organisation which has been quite successful in making its mark in terms of the growth targets achieved.

Movements Daksh eServices has announced the appointment of SL Bhattacharya, as the company’s chief technology officer. Bhattacharya was formerly working with Global Telesystems. “Bhattacharya’s versatile and specialist technology experience will be a big asset to our management team. We look forward to fresh perspectives and key value-addition in the areas of technology infrastructure with his induction,” said Sanjay Aggarwal, CEO, Daksh eServices. Bhattacharya brings with him more than 25 years of experience, having worked for blue chip corporations like Tisco, Hindustan Lever and Global Telesystems. In his long stint at Hindustan Levers, he was responsible for company-wide ERP implementation. In his last assignment at Global Telesystems, he managed a backbone network of the company spanning 18 nodes across the country using Frame Relay & ATM protocols, supporting over a thousand customers. Bhattacharya has an engineering and an MBA degree. Daksha is a CRM co-sourcing company, which builds blended customer interaction centres offering mail, chat and voice capabilities. It currently serves 30 million North American customers through a 1000 man strong team and built a world-class structure. PTC, the product development company, has named Bill McMurray as its sector vice president of sales in the south rim. McMurray reinforces PTC’s commitment to aggressively develop and support regions in South Asia, where he will help drive relationships with systems integrators and manufacturers seeking to bring products to market with greater speed and efficiency through use of PTC’s mechanical computer-aided design and collaborative product commerce software solutions. McMurray comes to PTC with 16 years of Asian sales experience including 11 years with IBM. In his tenure with IBM, McMurray held various Asia-Pacific portfolios and was the national sales director for IBM Australia. After leaving IBM, McMurray spent 6 years in senior positions in the enterprise application integration and development industry. His most recent appointment was that of senior vice president and general manager of the Americas and Asia-Pacific at Level 8 systems company in 1998. Paul Abraham has been appointed as the vice president-technical sales in the Mobile Networks Division (ICM-N) in Siemens . Prior to this, he had worked with Siemens, Dubai. Abraham has also worked with BPL for four years. Before that he had a 28-year-old stint with the Department of Telecom (DoT). Abraham holds a degree in Electronics and Telecom Engineering from the Institute of Electronics and Telecom Engineering (IETE).