Technology must adapt to the Business not the other way

My involvement with the software industry for the last few years led me to believe that there is a huge gap between technology and business, not just in technology terms but in terms of business orientation of our technical manpower. Most of the project failures/time overruns/cost overruns can be attributed to this factor. I am not sounding like Nicholas G. Carr (Does IT matter?), I am clearly touched by IT in my personal as well as work life. I think business as a discipline evolves less of technological factors than other factors. So technology has to play the catch up game with business.

The recent trends in BPM/SOA may be a pointer towards that direction.

Agribusiness would be the key for 10% GDP

I was watching Montek Singh Aluwalia's interview that day. He said three things needed to take the GDP to 10%.

1. Infrustructure

2. Agriculture

3. Education

He is spot on.

Last time I visited interior Bengal, a place called Basanti. You need to cross a river Matla twice to reach there from Kolkata.

You can reach Canning by road/train from Kolkata, cross the river to reach Sonakhali & cross the river again.
A bridge is getting constructed, work is in full swing. The other side a bridge been constructed two years back. I could see the economic development of the region.

I have started in my small way something in agriculture. We need investments to develop may be cold storage chain. You can possibly build road based supply chain once the bridge is ready. May be a fleet of Tata Aces and directly bringing produce to Retail chains in Kolkata. Even River based supply chain also can be thought of, a fleet of motorised boats to carry produce.

I was reading the other day Spensers in Kerala started Live fish retailing. Knowing Bengal's appetite for Fish, anybody interested?