CIOs Would Look For Strategic Cost and Performance Management in 2012 "CIOs will build their IT strategy around the three pillars of Business Aligned IT – Performance Improvement, Operations Transformation and Cost Optimization," says Pradeep Bindal, President of India Business, HCL Technologies. Read the article to know more about the CIOs’ changing IT strategies to achieve their business objectives in 2012

Source: Dataquest Sunday, January 15 2012

The Different Hues of a Healthy Workplace Cultural diversity is an over-riding imperative of an organization that essentially means mentoring individuals from different backgrounds so that they can be at a vantage point in terms of contributing to the organization. Read on to know more as Srimathi Shivshankar, Associate Vice President, Diversity and Sustainability, HCL Technologies talks about various forms of diversity at workplace and the evolving organizational frameworks.

Source: Dataquest Tuesday, January 10 2012

Differentiated Experience and Differentiated Value is Our Central Agenda: President of HCL Technologies, India “HCL is working on a concept called ‘Strategic Cost and Performance Management’ where we are working with organizations to identify the areas of optimization,” says Pradeep Bindal, HCL Technologies India. Read to know more.

Author: Rukhsar Saleem
Source: Dataquest Saturday, December 31 2011

More and More Clients See Indian IT as Solution to Slowdown Problems: Vineet Nayar “When recession came, the customers’ volumes came down. But the MNC IT firms did not collaborate in degrowth, because they were worried about their own balance sheets and P&Ls, ” states Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies to The Times of India while speaking on a range of issues.

Author: Sujit John & Mini Joseph Tejaswi
Source: Times of India Thursday, December 22 2011

The Only Way for HCL to grow is by Eating Somebody else’s Lunch: Vineet Nayar As the macro-economic situation continues to be grim across Europe and companies are paring down IT budgets, Vineet Nayar, vice Chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies told Hindustan Times that he sees growth prospects inbagging existing deals that come up for renewal. Read more.

Author: Vivek Sinha
Source: Hindustan Times Thursday, December 22 2011

HCL Technologies in Poland: A Perfect Setup that has Indian Origin, Polish Setup & Global Reach HCL’s setup in Poland has become a strategic nearshore capability for EU clients and is being selected as chosen employer by global Gen Y. Read more.

Author: Ewa Hancock
Source: Warsaw Voice Magazine Thursday, December 15 2011

The Upside of a Downturn With economic data in the country suggesting the recent recovery may be affected by headwinds from the global slowdown, now is a good time to remember the lessons from 2008. “During the 2008-11 period, HCL grew at 24 percent (CAGR), twice the average industry growth rate. It also tripled its market capitalization during the same period. This is because we viewed the slowdown as an opportunity to accelerate,” says Rajiv Sodhi, Senior Corporate VP and Chief Customer Officer, HCL Technologies. Read to know more.

Source: Business Standard Monday, December 05 2011

Turning Economic Threat Into Opportunity If we tweak our strategies correctly, global uncertainties and recessions can also be looked upon as an opportunity, believes Vineet Nayar. Innovation, leadership and optimism are what India Inc. needs to grow amid economic uncertainty, he writes in this exclusive article penned by him. Read more.

Author: Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies
Source: The Hindustan Times Tuesday, November 29 2011

Thinking India Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies is amongst eight individuals of Indian origin who are on Thinkers 50, an influential list of the world’s top business minds put out every other year. Read about their key creative ideas and their outlook for this country.

Author: HT Correspondents
Source: Hindustan Times Sunday, November 27 2011

Towards a Pregnancy-friendly Workplace Why do women still have to choose between having a career and having a baby? Why are they left with little choice but to opt out of the workforce or at best, scale down their ambitions? It is high time organizations realize the long-term value of employees and take a proactive approach for building a pregnancy-friendly workplace. HCL Technologies offers a whole range of programs to support women during the pre and post maternity times. Read more.

Author: Payal Chanania
Source: Hindu Wednesday, November 23 2011

What to Do If You Goof Up To err is human…but is there a protocol on how to react after you’ve made a blooper? “Goof-ups are common and are a part of the learning cycle. Most organizations are tolerant enough to forgive harmless errors. However, repetitive erroneous behavior is not taken lightly,” says Ravi Shankar, Senior Vice President (HR) at HCL Technologies. Read more.

Author: Sunanda Poduwal
Source: The Economic Times Sunday, November 20 2011

We should now focus on being paid for our brains (IPs), not just for our sweat (services): Vineet Nayar “There are hundreds of thousands of workers in India’s IT industry who now have more than 10 years of experience, and let’s not forget we have the largest population of young people in the world,” says the CEO of HCL Technologies, Vineet Nayar while representing the IT industry for a leading magazine. Read more.

Author:  Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies
Source: Indian Express Thursday, November 17 2011

Intrapreneurship: The New Competitive Edge “Intrapreneur is a person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation,” writes D. K. Srivastava, HCL Technologies. Learn more about the concept of intrapreneurship in this article.

Author:  Dilip Kumar Srivastava, Corporate VP & Global Head – HR, HCL Technologies
Source: Tribune Wednesday, November 16 2011

Revenue Productivity Makes HCL Indian IT’s Dark Horse While more experienced employees and a high proportion of infrastructure management services revenue help explain HCL’s higher revenue per employee, the sharp jump from 2006 is because the firm has been reducing the share of the low-paying call center business and expanding in the higher-paying software consulting business. Read to know more.

Author: Lison Joseph & Shruti Sabharwal
Source: The Economic Times Tuesday, November 15 2011

Colleague-Spouse 24X7 Maintaining a healthy personal-professional balance is essential – more so in the case of spouses working together. Working in the same office as one’s spouse has a set of both benefits and challenges. And the challenges often outweigh the benefits. However, some companies like HCL Technologies encourage married couples to work for the organization. Read to know more.

Author:  Jyoti Verma
Source: Asian Age Monday, November 14 2011

We want to be a socially responsible corporation: Vineet Nayar HCL Technologies intends to hire 10,000 people, or about 12.4% of its current work force in the U.S. and Europe by 2015. India’s biggest IT companies, long accused by critics of stealing jobs from the West, are ramping up local hiring in these countries. Read to know more.

Author:  Megha Behree
Source: Wall Street Journal Sunday, November 13 2011

Five Ways to Cope with Noise at Work Noisy co-workers are a part of everyone’s working life. But if an organization has an open work environment, it becomes a serious problem, and retaining concentration and productivity becomes that much tougher. Learn about a few ways to cope with noise at the workplace.

Author:  Moresha Benjamin
Source: The Economic Times Friday, November 11 2011

“Coaching Next Generation Leaders” “At HCL Technologies, the emphasis on executive coaching stems from the belief that leadership and activity based developments are an integral part of the continuous knowledge and learning process in the arena of competitive business,” says Dilip Kumar Srivastava, HCL Technologies. Read to know more.

Author:  Dilip Kumar Srivastava, Corporate VP & Global Head – HR, HCL Technologies
Source: People Matters Tuesday, November 01 2011

‘Having 24.5% Women Workforce in HCL Tech is a Tipping Point’: Robin “In the last 12-18 months, we have seen customers asking in Request for Proposals information about the percentage of women in the workforce,” says Ms Robin Abrams, a board member at HCL Technologies and a champion of gender diversity. Read this exclusive feature to know more.

Author:  Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee
Source: Businessworld Monday, October 24 2011

Are You Able to Strike a Balance? As work-life balance continues to be a hot topic across the globe, this article showcases employee-friendly companies such as HCL Technologies defining their scope of intervention in this direction. Read this article to know more.

Author:  Sunanda Poduwal
Source: The Economic Times Monday, October 24 2011