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...Satheesh, 32, an employee of Wipro, one of India's leading outsourcing companies, is among her country's new elite. She manages 38 people who work for Hewlett-Packard's enterprise-servers group doing maintenance, fixing defects and enhancing the networking software developed by HP for its clients. Her unit includes more than 300 people who work for HP, about 90 of whom were added last November when HP went through a round of cost-cutting...
...future's big business. Just ask Peter Schwartz. As chairman of the California-based Global Business Network, a "scenario planning" firm advising corporations and governments, it's Schwartz's job to know what's around the corner. Building on his experience as head of Royal Dutch/Shell's Group Planning unit in the 1980s, Schwartz, 56, charts inevitabilities and uncertainties for investors and politicians grappling with long-term decisions. Can he really tell us the shape of things to come? In Inevitable Surprises: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century (The Free Press; 245 pages) he insists that he can. Here...
...model, we were talking to suppliers and customers daily." Next step: Dell got aggressive on the supply chain, cutting inventory from seven days to three and building to order only. The company slashed prices at home, then turned abroad. Competitors scoffed at the idea of selling direct overseas, but unit shipments to China, Japan, France and Germany were up 39% in the first quarter over the same period last year. The product mix expanded too. Dell took on HP and IBM in servers and services, and teamed up with EMC on storage...
...night-school classmates with insinuations of underworld connections, and orders pizza delivered to class. Two more movies are on the way, including one in which he plays the lead singer in a struggling rock group?a familiar role for Shido, who released a CD in 1995 with his band Unit 33. The ever-professional Shido takes his snowballing popularity in stride: "Acting is acting, whether it's Kabuki or the movies," he says. "The genre may be different but the feeling is the same...
...appear to hold widespread appeal throughout the military ranks. If they aren't alleviated, the complaints could lead to more anti-government outbursts by the often volatile armed forces. "The message is that the government should take action - real reform," says Lieutenant Col. Rod Mejia of the Marines' intelligence unit. "If not, this coup will continue and continue and continue...