If you work for Steria then you don’t need any introduction to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) ethic that pervades the organisation. If you don’t work at Steria, then this short video featuring the India head of CSR, Gayathri Mohan, will explain all.
Today, at the NASSCOM conference in Mumbai, Steria was awarded the NASSCOM Social [...]

At the turn of the millennium, both the IT industry and corporate IT departments were suffering a major credibility problem. The old perception of IT as a bunch of socially retarded propeller-heads endured in many organisations, and was compounded by a view that those running IT did little except talk twaddle, cause them headaches and [...]

My 12th birthday in 1981 was both the most exciting and frustrating day of my childhood. After seeing an ad in the Sunday Times, my father had bought me a ZX81, the pioneering sub-£70 home microcomputer from Sinclair Research. With 1Kb of RAM and an 8K ROM that included a version of the BASIC programming [...]

Steria is forty this year. That’s one year more than me as I’m about to celebrate my own birthday this week, fortunately not quite at the important milestone of middle age Steria is enjoying.
In the past forty years, I would suggest that there have been four key turning points, or inventions, that changed the use [...]

The 1970s — Marvellous, magical boxes of mystery

 - just like Steria, I too hit 40 this year and have been similarly musing on the changes in the technological landscape over the course of my four-decade history. So this month, I thought I’d use my Exchange posts to recount some personal memories of computing from [...]

I’ve been writing on this blog and editing entries by other writers for just about all this year, however I have been regularly blogging for the British business and technology magazine Computing since 2006. My Talking Outsourcing blog at Computing has become one of the most popular blogs on their website – possibly because I [...]

As issues such as global warming, rising fuel prices and growing investments in “green” technology make headlines; it is gradually becoming mainstream business practice to consider how organizations affect the environment.
However, the environmental policies that many companies have begun to implement still address issues that are largely perceived as external to the lives of the workforce. [...]

India’s ‘father of BPO’ Raman Roy was part of a session I was watching at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum earlier today. I was interested in some of his comments on gainsharing.
Gainsharing is an innovative pricing practice that many commentators have suggested will increase this year. It’s when the company providing the service offers to [...]

This is an exciting new initiative by Steria to create an open forum for the discussion of business in the twenty-first century. The issues of industrialisation, virtualisation, and globalisation affect us all. Companies are changing their very fabric and structure. The nature of employment is changing and organisations are now scouring the world in search [...]

In today’s boundless global world, many of our clients and partners come to us for the latest thinking on a particular problem or solution area. Exchange is an on-line environment where our clients, partners and employees can contribute to discussing, sharing and even solving some of the big issues and challenges. It may be a [...]