Health IT firms such as Cerner, AllScripts, and AthenaHealth might want to listen.
Over the last 12 months, India-based IT firms have seen their stock values erode.
Thus when Indian IT firms convert their dollar rates into rupees, they scare many potential Indian customers away.
Competition among the outsourcing IT firms is seen getting fiercer, too, in India.
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Next year, however, remains a hard one to call for global IT firms.
This freedom allows the IT firms to squeeze a profit even out of the low prices Indian customers demand.
To sell to Indian customers, IT firms must think in rupees, not dollars.
Nasscom, the association of Indian IT firms, said the efforts faced roadblocks because of a lack of qualified U.S. graduates.
Lots of bidders would be interested in EDS, including a few of the top Indian IT firms, SITA, Singtel (funded by Temasek no doubt), or even Samsung.
There used to be hundreds of IT firms around me building or reselling PCs and servers to a vast audience of willing buyers happy to pay for the hardware.
Another important area will be safety and security within the city and that means an extensive network of surveillance systems, which should, she said, offer opportunities to small and medium IT firms.
At the time I emailed about a dozen tech guys I know, owners and employees at IT firms, and asked them if I should bite the bullet, ditch the BlackBerry and get a different smartphone.
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Institutional investors infuriated by management's attempt to buy two construction companies controlled by relatives of Satyam's founder have reportedly sounded out IT firms and buyout funds about their interest in the software and back-office services heavyweight.
Social media training is quickly becoming mandatory for an ever-growing range of companies, far surpassing the first wave of IT firms that rolled it out two years ago, like Dell, Intel and IBM.
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It was typical of an era when civil servants with little knowledge of what was involved in building and maintaining a site were content to entrust the job to the "experts" at one of the few IT firms deemed substantial enough to win the contract.
While Bartels has watched server makers like Sun Microsystems suffer from economic troubles since as early as the beginning of the year, (see "Sun Eclipsed By Poor Results--Again") he says that the recent and dramatic widening of the banking crisis means more pain is in store for other IT firms--including Cisco.
It could be argued that regulators are as much at fault for high default rates among some of the firms it insures as are the firms themselves.
Alex Pigliucci, global managing director of Accenture wealth management services, said social media creates a huge opportunity for firms that get it right and a real risk for firms that regard it mostly as a threat.
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It used to be one of the world's biggest IT and telecoms firms, but it has failed to adapt to changing times.
The government says the tax system became a "hindrance" to business under Labour, and that by simplifying it and making it more competitive for small firms it would stimulate economic growth.
The third-largest forging business in the world, it supplies firms such as Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
And it liberates firms from the program-release schedules of software suppliers, which are often inconvenient and late.
It induced firms that not only should have known better but are required to behave better to perform unconscionably.
Indian IT outsourcing firms, says Patnaik, are also vulnerable to siloed thinking.
Called Hwaeui, it allows firms to defer their existing debts and interest payments, and even to take out new loans, without relinquishing day-to-day control.
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's global co-head of emerging markets, Ramin Toloui, says the company uses "bottom-up company analysis" meaning it choose firms to invest in regardless of sector.
Paradoxically, focusing on maximizing shareholder value ends up making less money for shareholders, because it leads firms to do things, like the recent JPMorgan gambles that actually destroy shareholder value.
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