Gyaan Sutra On entrepreneurship and technology

Business Week has a new presentation about the top ten Indian companies to watch out for. (via Alootechie). I assumed it would be a list of the upcoming companies in India, which are spending their time and money constructively. Rather it turns out to be a list of huge corporations which are challenged only be their own incompetence.

Tata Motors is better known as the company which makes Tata Indica, the car which brought about the BPO revolution in India. (Imagine going to a call center in a fiat or something). Other than that they are making a lakh rupee car, and some people are fighting about it, but I guess its not much of an issue.

Mahindra and Mahindra, has an alter ego problem. Even though they have tie ups with Renault and Navistar, they create ugly looking SUV’s.

Bharat Forge deserves to be there, so I’ll say no more.

Rediff.com advertises about somebody’s dick (watch it here), and serve news as crappy as the Times of India.

Infosys is the leading star of the Indian cheap labour revolution in IT. They make 60% of their profits from the US, and have more employees than the Indian Army.

Ditto for Wipro.

Dr Reddy’s Labs is hot, so I’ll let this one pass.

So is Airtel. With better quality and costing than Idea, they seem to be doing better than Idea atleast in Pune. The broadband service is state-of-the-art, at least by Indian standards. The call center always picks up, and issues get sorted out quickly, unlike the competition (Who’s better? Sify? Tata Indicom? Reliance?).

Reliance Idustries has the duniya in its mutthi. Other than watching the brothers fight, I doubt this company has much to offer. Somehow in this long life, I have never ever used anything made by the company, rather I refrain from it.

ICICI tried to make banking hot by using super ‘tote’ females in place of the clerks. They grew so fast, that now they can’t handle the huge number of customer they have, nor keep up with the quality of people in the offices.

All in all, maybe humans haven’t evolved to an extent that they can handle corporations well. Maybe we should design computers to handle them.