scorecardresearch
Business Today
Subscribe
PMS Today US News India UPSTART Weather BT Shorts NRI Education Election
BT Golf BT Mindrush BT Best Banks
Clear all
Search

COMPANIES

No Data Found

NEWS

No Data Found
Sign in Subscribe
events
Special
  • BT tech today
  • BT 500 wealth creators summit
  • Economic Indicators
Save 41% with our annual Print + Digital offer of Business Today Magazine
SUBSCRIBE
News
Magazine
Trends
All you wanted to know about undersea cables

Feedback

All you wanted to know about undersea cables

India was a victim of an undersea cable outage in late-January and early February. But what are these cables and why do they matter to you?
Kushan Mitra
and
Ananda Banerjee
Print Edition: Mar 23, 2008

 
Click here to enlarge
India was a victim of an undersea cable outage in late-January and early February.  But what are these cables and why do they matter to you?

What do the conspiracy theorists say?

While the accepted story is that a ship's anchor or a deep fishing line damaged the cables, other "theorists" also abound. Some people say that the breakage was an act of sabotage to damage India's reputation as an 'offshore' centre. This was echoed by the International Telecommunications Union (Un agency for information and communication technologies). Whether there's any truth in this theory will probably never be known.

Global war for talent

 
Click here to enlarge
The recent McKinsey survey has revealed that nearly half of the respondents expect intensifying competition for talent-and the increasingly global nature of that competition-to have a major effect on their companies over the next five years.

While the developed world wrestles with falling birth rates and rising rates of retirement, emerging markets are producing a surplus of young talent. Many organisation have been eyeing this source of talent enthusiastically, but riding the new demographic tide won't be easy. HR professionals at MNCs in emerging markets such as China, Hungary, India and Malaysia have told McKinsey that candidates for engineering and general-management positions exhibit wide variations in suitability. Poor English skills, dubious educational qualifications, and cultural issues were among the problems most frequently cited.

 

×