Dr. Rathi Dasgupta
Principal & Blue Ocean Strategy Practitioner, Mira Consulting
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Rathi Dasgupta, a Blue Ocean Strategist (INSEAD) is the Managing Partner of Mira Consulting, an outsourcing consulting firm. He is also an Executive Coach for IT services and BPO and Captive Offshore Chief Executive Officer’s. He consults with US and Europe based companies on IT, BPO outsourcing, and off shoring strategy. He also advises offshore captives on managing existing vendors, delivery and quality processes. A former enterprise architecture specialist, he is an expert in the domain areas of telecom, retail & CPG, healthcare and insurance. Previously, Dr. Dasgupta was the Managing Director at Intec Telecom Systems and Vice President at Target, First Apex Technologies, and Office Tiger, Practice Head at Wipro, Engineering Head at Sun. He also held management positions at PwC, Soros USA, Cambridge, Sharp, i2, Xansa UK. He was part of the start up team in Target Corporation in India and SUN Microsystems. He is a regular speaker and conference chairs in International Conferences across the globe. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2006 - Unspecified
- Principal & Blue Ocean Strategy Practitioner, Mira Consulting
- 2006 - 2008
- Managing Director - India, Intec Telecom Systems India
- 2005 - 2006
- Vice President, TARGET CORPORATION
- 2004 - 2005
- VP, First Apex Technologies
- 2003 - 2004
- VP, Office Tiger Database Systems
- 2002 - 2003
- Practice Head, Wipro Technologies
- 2000 - 2002
- Engineering Head, SUN MICROSYSTEMS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
- 1994 - 1995
- Managing Consultant, COOPERS & LYBRAND
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Rathi Dasgupta(?)
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Appreciation in Indian Rupee will affect Outsourcing to India
November 19, 2007
The Other Side of Rupee Appreciation | www.merinews.com
Outsourcing is the trend of the hour. It is mostly done to take advantage of wages cost arbritage. This processes is possible because disparity in values of different country currencies. Appreciation of Indian Rupee against US Dollar by an unprecedented percentage of 12%, has threatend the exporter in India. The profit margin for exporter to retailer has been completely eaten up by this appreciation. The fastest growing industry - IT & IT enabled services are also affected by the same, their profit margin has come down from 30% to 18 to 20%. IT organizations are thinking of introducing a six day week, increase daily billable hours and also change the resource loading by putting higher percentage of low cost employees. The last measure will affect the delivery quality.
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August 10, 2007
What will the IT Scenario in India look like in 2020? | www.linkedin.com
This article is asking the most relevant question in terms of IT and ITES offshoring to India and other low cost centers. It focuses on India in 2020. It tries to explore opportunity space and challenges.
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EDGE - is it a threat to 3G? High on Watch List
March 16, 2007
EDGE Evolution is going to kill 3G? | www.electronique.biz
EDGE is a product of 3GPP project. It is 3 times faster data/voice transmission, capable of data capacity is also 3 times compared to GPRS. It is capable of 3G like services.
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Captive IT centers - Real Life Analysis
March 16, 2007
Captive Centers: A Simple and Complete Solution for your IT Multisourcing Needs | www.sinapsis.com
Companies are going for Captive IT centers in India to leverage the cost advantage and implement the corporate control. The Cost Advantage is around 1:3.5 and the control is 100%. There are lot of success measures for the same and also in reality issues as well. The captive center carries the brand of the corporate and so overtime all the corporate structure and benefits need to extend to them. Though the cost of production is almost the same as the outsourcing scenario, the captive center becomes an asset as well a liability for the corporate. Verticalized captive Center is the recent trend. It offers domain expertise as well as technology competency to an employee. Companies also become better equipped to handle IT consulting vendor in terms of price negotiation.
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March 15, 2007
SuperValu to launch IT operations in B`lore | www.business-standard.com
After Banking, Insurance, ERP and Telecom, Indian IT companies are concentrating on creating Retail specific IT solutions in India. Wipro and Infosys have created strong retail practices and have gone ahead to do research on technologies such as RFID. Large Retailers are also setting up IT captive centers in India.
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GLG Study Groups with Rathi Dasgupta(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 16437 |
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 16437 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 8640 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 8640 |
| Business Process Outsourcing Experts | 1415 |
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