International guests

Ashank Desai from Mastek and Wilson Tan from ASOCIO dropped by a for a short visit to our offices on Wednesday. Both were in town for the ASOCIO plenary session hosted in Karachi by PASHA.

Wilson spent a few hours with us on strategy and outlook and takeaways fro his session included a stronger focus on the business case for new projects, a deeper and broader pipeline, requirements for international products (10 - 12 products across 2 - 3 product lines) and an open mind with respect to changes growth will bring.

Ashank focused more on product strategy and managing scope and feature creep as well as the right time to go and raise money. He also spoke about staying true to the culture of your firm by passing on the vision to second and third layer of leadership.

Both made a huge difference in our moral for the day and the week. Wilson and Ashank validated some of the debates we have been having internally and also pointed out ideas for future direction.

A day later NCR-Terra data Area Director from Cyprus dropped by for a site visit and we had an interesting chat about opportunities in Basel II work in Europe and rest of the world.

There is still action in Karachi.