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Pharma
takes the IT route
The common factor between AstraZeneca, Biocon and Sami Labs
is that all these companies are in the business of manufacturing
drugs although the end-products they manufacture vary. That
said, the process of drug discovery is more or less the same
for all three.
Wi-Fi
and the waiter
That the service industry is an innovative user of IT is proved
yet again by Café Coffee Day’s (CCD) successful
attempt to cut the long wait from when an order is taken by
its waiters to when the customer finally gets to sip a cappuccino.
This process used to take all of 25 minutes, something which
definitely had to go down. The chain also wanted to minimise
errors in order delivery.
Mapping
the customer’s designs
India’s traditional advantage of low cost and high quality
is coming to the fore even in high-entry-barrier fields such
as chip design. Majors such as Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments,
Motorola and IBM are already doing cutting-edge chip design
work in India.
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