News Category: Media Coverage

This coming Saturday, Belgaum will see the formal launch of a 300-acre aerospace SEZ. This is not the sort of SEZ that the government announces and nobody ever hears anything about it for a long time. This is one where land has been allotted, and work has begun, including an aircraft surface treatment facility set

Publication : Mint Date : 27 Oct 2009 Aravind Melligeri is betting against conventional wisdom. Bangalore is India’s aerospace hub, where the country’s military plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is based and the work on a homegrown plane and space research is centred. This, in turn, means the bulk of the vendors with the ability to

AEROSPACE companies, including Indian aviation majors, are coming out with new business models as they seek high levels of design and production. Long-term contracts by offshoring and outsourcing work to private firms and SMEs in India is one among them. Airbus, the world’s largest plane maker, for instance, is planning to offshore 20% of its

One of greatest Union generals in the U.S. Civil war, William Tecumseh Sherman, described the goal of effective military strategy as maneuvering so that the opposing general finds himself “on the horns of dilemma.” That means you should force your competitor to choose to defend target A by sacrificing target B or vice-versa. General Sherman

The midsize service providers are moving strongly towardsthe top-pack and establishing themselves as leaders in R&D community. “The companies like Tata Elxsi, Aricent, MindTree, GlobalLogic, Polaris, Aditi, Tech Mahindra, Symphony and Sonata are fast closing in the gap with the market leaders like Wipro, TCS and HCL, as they are acting proactive regarding their business

Last week I introduced Ajit Prabhu, the co-founder and chief executive officer of QuEST Global. My interview with him was fascinating, and during our discussion, I learned that the basic idea behind QuEST was born while Ajit was working at General Electric. Whether Ajit knew it or not, he began employing the time-tested stratagem –

Most successful people are somehow inspired to do things differently. For some it is an innovative idea, and for others it is identifying a need and filling it. For Ajit Prabhu, the co-founder and chief executive officer of QuEST Global, it was a car. At a time when few in Ajit’s home town in India

BANGALORE: Bombardier, the world’s third biggest aircraft maker, has invited tech vendors to bid for an outsourcing contract potentially worth up to $200 million over next few years, as the company seeks to increase outsourcing of design projects in order to lower its operational costs. While Mahindra Satyam and Capgemini already work with Bombardier and