G.B.Prabhat - Anantara Solutions
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G.B.Prabhat - Founder and CEO
G.B.Prabhat is the Founder of Anantara Solutions, and is the original proponent of Second Generation Outsourcing (SGO), a business paradigm that radically improves first generation outsourcing which is predicated primarily on cost arbitrage.
Before founding Anantara, he was Director, Consulting and Enterprise Solutions, Satyam Computer Services Limited, one of India’s largest IT consulting and outsourcing companies. He was the prime architect of the company’s distinguishing national leadership in the area.
Prabhat is the pioneer and, in many senses, the father of the offshore-consulting revolution. In 1995, he co-founded Satyam Renaissance Consulting, a then subsidiary of Satyam Computer Services. Prabhat believed strongly that, much as IT services work was beginning to be offshored, all manner of consulting services could be delivered using the onsite-offshore model with India as the hub of such services. He also believed that a new model of consulting was required for the global economy – of combining traditional consulting services in business strategy and business process with IT services to deliver Business Solutions. Such solutions helped customers compete by improving their overall business performance manifested as, for example, improvements in profits, increase in return-on-capital employed and increased market share.
Under his leadership, many ground-breaking consulting driven IT assignments using the onsite-offshore model were delivered to Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
In 1999, Satyam Renaissance Consulting was merged with Satyam Computer Services and transformed into the company’s Consulting and Enterprise Solutions unit. Consequently, he was instrumental in making Satyam not only a pioneer but a national leader in Consulting and Enterprise Solutions building a strategic platform for a business that was nearly US$ 200 million in revenue the year he left Satyam. Under his leadership, his business unanimously and consistently attracted encomiums from industry and financial analysts.
Prabhat is a prolific writer of business articles dealing with competitiveness, IT, business processes, organizational culture and leadership. His book on managing in the new world order, The 3D competitive space: Managing in the New Economy, was published by McGraw Hill, India, in 1997. Many ideas contained therein have been implemented by his team in corporations all over the world. His articles and reviews have appeared in a number of international and national journals including Harvard Business Review and publications of The Amercian Association of Artificial Intelligence.
He has addressed more than 10,000 business managers worldwide on a variety of themes associated with competitiveness and technology.
He has been profiled by and is frequently quoted in the business press, both national and international.
Prabhat is also a writer of fiction. His first novel, Chains, was published in November 2000 to critical acclaim and his second novel, Eimona, was published in 2006 to complimentary reviews.
To know more about Anantara Solutions please visit:
http://www.anantsol.com/index.html
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