How big is the IBM Emerging Markets Software (Asia-Pacific) group and what is its brief?
IBM has done a lot of work in defining, assessing and prioritising emerging geographic markets. The Emerging Markets team builds on this to understand what major initiatives are required for market leadership. The group, by itself, is not very big because we depend on country organisations to execute our programmes. In India, for example, we workthrough Tata-IBM. The software group identifies key initiatives which accelerate revenue growth and build for the future. • What are the major initiatives it has undertaken in India? There is a whole series of things we are doing in India. We are partnering with the government of Karnataka for starting a School of Internet Studies in Bangalore. We are also working with IIM, Bangalore, IIT, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh university and JNTU. The IBM Research Development Centre on the IIT campus (Delhi) is one of the eight such IBM labs we have throughout the world. We are investing $ 25 million in it over five years. In Hyderabad, Tata-IBM is playing a l
