Ajit Balakrishnan
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Ajit Balakrishnan
Ajit Balakrishnan is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is a successful entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator. He had started his entrepreneurial venture with Rediffusion, an advertising firm now known as Rediffusion DY&R which he co-founded with Arun Nanda and Mohammed Khan, when he was 22. He later co-founded PSI Data Systems in mid 80's with two other partners hailing from Stanford. He led Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF) which won the CIO Choice Award for the best Enterprise Email Solution for three consecutive years. He has served as the Chairman of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.
Ajit Balakrishnan is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is a successful entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator. He had started his entrepreneurial venture with Rediffusion, an advertising firm now known as Rediffusion DY&R which he co-founded with Arun Nanda and Mohammed Khan, when he was 22. He later co-founded PSI Data Systems in mid 80's with two other partners hailing from Stanford. He led Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF) which won the CIO Choice Award for the best Enterprise Email Solution for three consecutive years. He has served as the Chairman of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.
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Ajit Balakrishnan: Indigo - stain or missed future?
Every time I see a name-board for "Bayer", "BASF" or "Agfa", I fall into a deep depression about the future we Indians missed at Champaran in 1917
Can Jeff Bezos invent a new future for newspapers?
By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution
The way we work now
What is the world of the temporary worker who makes up 10 to 20 per cent of most modern offices?
Ajit Balakrishnan: Realising India's industrial dreams
Evidence is mounting that causes for and solutions to India’s mfg angst may not lie in high land costs, excessively labour-friendly laws or excessive taxes
Ajit Balakrishnan: Leaving it to the 'IT guy'
Next time an intriguing software application comes your way, think twice before you relegate it to the 'IT guy' in your office
Ajit Balakrishnan: Real ways to make sense of India
'Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India' analyses famous Indian dilemmas such as the Reuben-Keenan tragedy, the India-China war of 1962 and why reckless pedestrians cross railway lines
Ajit Balakrishnan: From stenos to service counters
The typing pool has disappeared from the office landscape, and managers sit with PCs and do their own letters
Ajit Balakrishnan: Chetan Bhagat, India's Dickens
Characters that populate his novels, preoccupations they have, ambitions they nurse and obstacles they encounter are all endearingly those of today's real-life India
Ajit Balakrishnan: Good things from bad motives?
Today we use statistical methods for purposes as computing GDP & planning healthcare & education, but statistical methods originated with much darker motives
