Bangalore based TGC Prasad offers Strategic, General management, Executive Coaching and HR Advisory consulting services. Prior to this he was on the board of Misys India, and worked as country manager, global vice president for Misys Plc (market cap of about GBP 2 billion).  Earlier he has held key roles in blue chip companies like Wipro, PWC, Alcatel Lucent, MindTree and IBM,More...

Reverse Globalisation for economic and social balance? What’s that?  IIT trained Dr. L N Rajaram, a doctorate in software engineering, is on exactly that with Lokalex, a company aimed at helping rural communities: it’s ‘a vision of survival of a hopelessly marginalised people whose traditional lifestyles within self-sufficient local economies have been assaulted for centuries.’More...

Techie Sharath Komarraju was born in India, and as a teenager, accompanied his parents in a move to New Zealand.  After studying Engineering at New Zealand, he joined blue chip tech major IBM.  Currently, he is based in Bangalore.  His novel ‘'Murder in Amaravati' hit the bookstores recently. Sharath, who has a keen interest in science fiction and mystery, is a prolific writer.More...

Regular readers of Techgoss are well aware that a large number of our articles are crowd sourced.  People send in tips, photos, story ideas and even articles. Many of our contributors have full times jobs in IT - ITES, and so prefer using a pseudonym. After Techgoss published an article on Infosys sponsoring 100 British apprentices to come and train in India, a Tipster wrote inMore...

Over the last 24 months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside the BPO, KPO & IT divisions of one of India’s most successful IT-ITES companies Syntel.  One report showed how that in the past Syntel BPO was overly reliant on couple of key clients. Also, exclusively reported were the exits of the CEO and key HR people.More...

Arun Chaitanya is from the first B. Tech batch from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.  While most of his fellow techie students were given packages of Rs. 7-10 Lakhs as a starting salary, Arun, who has been hired by Japanese ERP giant Works Applications, starts his tech career in 2012 with a whopping Rs. 35 Lakhs salary package. TG caught up with Arun who told usMore...