Dr. Rathi Dasgupta
Managing Partner, The Strategic Sourcing Group
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Dr. Rathi Dasgupta leads TSS engaged in Executive Coaching, Strategy consulting, M&A Due Diligence (technology, process & operations), Outsourcing, subject matter expertise on IT, Telecom & Media. He consults with US and Europe based companies on IT, BPO outsourcing, and off shoring strategy. He has also served as the Senior Vice President at IonIdea Limited, a leading IT Consulting company, where he managed the retails and telecom vertical and was the head of worldwide sales. A former enterprise architecture specialist, he is an expert in the domain areas of telecom, retail and CPG, healthcare, consumer electronics and insurance. Dr. Dasgupta held leadership positions (Managing Director/ Vice President) such as Managing Director at Intec Telecom Systems, Vice President of Target Corporation, Docomo- First Apex Technologies, Office Tiger, Wipro, and Sun Microsystems. He has worked on many research projects and product innovation and development. He has also held management positions at PwC, Soros USA, Cambridge, Sharp, i2, Xansa UK. He is a regular speaker and chairs in International Conferences across the globe. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2009 - 2010
- Senior Vice President, IonIdea India Limited
- 2008 - Unspecified
- Managing Partner, The Strategic Sourcing Group
- 2006 - Unspecified
- Founder, The Strategic Sourcing Group , 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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Feb 2011 - Cognizant is positioned as India's No. 3 IT services vendor
June 30, 2011
Cognizant Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Results | news.cognizant.com
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, today announced its fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results.Highlights – Fourth Quarter 2010Quarterly revenue rose to $1.31 billion, up 45.2% from the year-ago quarter and 7.7% sequentially.Quarterly diluted EPS on a non-GAAP basis, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, was $0.70, compared to $0.50 in the year-ago
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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.
GLG Study Groups with Rathi Dasgupta(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18316 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 9587 |
| Business Process Outsourcing Experts | 1765 |
| System Integration and Value Added Reseller Experts | 676 |
| Point-Of-Sale (POS) Terminal Experts | 549 |
GLG Live Meetings with Rathi Dasgupta(?)
Rathi Dasgupta has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.
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