Research management: Priorities for science in India

Ten Indian research leaders give their prescriptions, from better funding, facilities, mentoring and education to greater respect, fairness, autonomy and confidence.

Sunita Narain: Manage waste frugally
Hiriyakkanavar Ila: Support the bulk of students
Yamuna Krishnan: Crack the cliques, enable visionaries
Joyashree Roy: Train more energy economists
Raghavendra Gadagkar: Solve local problems
Vinod Singh: Improve tertiary education
Umesh Varshney: Make science an attractive career
Krishna N. Ganesh: Connect research with education
Pradeep P. Mujumdar: Share data on water resources
Naba K. Mondal: Build big physics facilities

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Tech Priorities 2012

Tech Priorities 2012

Confused over what technologies to embrace next year? Thenhow about a little help from your peers? We surveyed IT deci-sion makers from across various industries to understand theirtech priorities for the coming year in cloud computing, mobility, virtualization, and a slew of other technologies

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Top 10 CIO priorities

Which issues are top of mind, or should be top of mind, for CIOs? Consider this list, gleaned from discussions with scores of U.S. and Indian CIOs, as well as from our own research

No. 10: Improve collaboration
No. 9: Explore cloud computing
No. 8: Get your arms around the consumerization of IT
No. 7: Leverage social media
No. 6: Find the right people
No. 5: Prep for the post-PC era
No. 4: Harness big data
No. 3: Break out of the 80/20 spending trap
No. 2: Make IT one with the business
No. 1: IT is too darn slow (and needs to get faster)

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