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After playing hosts to the Yahoo! and HP chiefs, India gets ready to embrace another high-profile visitor from the global tech industry — Mr Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM.
Mr Palmisano's visit on Wednesday gets added significance with year 2011 commemorating 100 years of International Business Machines. Interestingly, 2011 also marks the completion of a decade for IBM's software development labs in India.
Apart from addressing employees at the IBM offices here, Mr Palmisano will deliver a lecture at the Indian Institute of Sciences on ‘The ideas that shaped a century, in technology, business and society'. Mr Palmisano's lecture will explore how the world has changed in the past 100 years and how it will change in the decades ahead.
Scaling up
With over one lakh employees in India, the Indian operations of IBM have been scaling up over the years, since its launch in 1951. “Mr Palmisano's visit to India shows that IBM India is pivotal to IBM's overall global strategy in delivering products and services or addressing the needs of emerging markets,” says Mr Karthik Ananth, Director — Market Expansion, Zinnov Management Consulting.
Several IBM inventions have emerged out of India — be it the ‘spoken Web' project, the healthcare initiative with Apollo to build a data network of personal healthcare records or the managed services model with Airtel.
“These innovations are just early successes and a lot more will happen going forward,” says Mr Ananth. “IBM has been leading the way in the Indian market with its range of offerings across software, hardware and services. But today, the battle in IT services has got more competitive among both domestic and global players and it will be interesting to watch what happens going forward.”
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