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Manish serves CIOs and business technology (BT) leaders, focusing on the role of technology as an enabler of business outcomes. He provides strategic guidance and advice to clients in the areas of emerging technologies, architecture and technology strategy, IT investment, BT alignment, business innovation, and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage. His research focuses on helping clients mature from an IT-centric role in their organizations to a business-embedded one and defining the technology requirements in an ever-changing work environment.
Manish has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Ciol, Silicon India, and others. Manish is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.
As a country manager, Manish is also responsible for developing the research team in India and lead a group of analysts, data experts, market experts, and consultants who do research on structural shifts in buyer demand, recognize new business models, and harness disruptive emerging technologies.
Manish came to Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research. Prior to Springboard, he served as a senior research analyst at Evalueserve, providing market research and business intelligence services. Previously, he was a team leader at GE Capital Services, a global financial services company.
Manish has a master's degree in business economics from DAVV, India. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in international business and is a certified SPSS professional.
How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India
The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

Business Results, Not Products Or Solutions, Differentiate SIs In The Eyes Of These CIOs
The CIO's role is clearly evolving to become less technical and more business-oriented. Indian CIOs have started looking beyond IT when engaging systems integrators (SIs) with the objective of...

How Online Retail In India Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets
India's eCommerce market is at an early stage but is expected to see huge growth over the next four to five years. Over the past 12 months, venture capitalists have invested heavily in India's...
Indian CIOs Risk Losing Business Credibility If They Do Not Improve Their Understanding Of BT
A slow but relentless global revolution is sweeping traditional technology management. Historically, only IT organizations delivered technology for employee use. But this is changing: Technology use...

Aligning Strategies With Key Government Priorities Is The Key To Success
The Indian public sector is an extremely difficult market for IT vendors due to its extended business cycles and high levels of diversity, hypercompetition, bureaucracy, and procurement complexity....

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...
In Springboard Research's latest "Asia Pacific (AP) IT Market Predictions 2011" report, we noted that rapid growth in the use of smart mobile devices, combined with an explosion in social computing,...
The server virtualization market in India is still in its nascent stage with enterprises experimenting with virtual servers running non-critical applications. This document is designed to allow...
This report enables vendor strategists to better comprehend the dynamics of the Indian OS market, including the overall OS market, current state of Linux adoption, Windows 7 adoption rates across...
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the India IT market in 2009 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2010. Despite the global...
This document highlights the dynamics and trends of the printer market in Sri Lanka from July 2008 to March 2009 for vendor strategists. The report includes both an overall market snapshot and an...
These are the data tables for the report Sri Lanka Printer Market Snapshot. The report highlights the dynamics and trends of the printer market in Sri Lanka from July 2008 to March 2009 for vendor...
This document highlights the dynamics and trends of the printer market in Pakistan from July 2008 to March 2009 for vendor strategists. The report includes both an overall market snapshot and an...
These are the data tables for the report Pakistan Printer Market Snapshot. The report highlights the dynamics and trends of the printer market in Pakistan from July 2008 to March 2009 for vendor...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the India IT market predictions for 2009. Our research points at a positive outlook for the India IT market, despite the slowdown in...