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Is Indian IT sector headed for a slowdown in 2012?

by Viral Dholakia on January 18, 2012 |

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It’s been a long tradition now – just like a temple priest flags off a ritual with sound of a conch (shankhnad) during startup; even software bellwether Infosys Technologies is accustomed to kick start the quarterly earnings season in style and panache. In fact, few years ago, the results and annual guidance provided by …

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Lufthansa Cargo Wants To Crowdsource Business & Process Innovation [Contest]

by Ankit Agarwal

From brainstorming to crowdsourcing, more and more companies are looking to tap into the collective intelligence of masses to solve their business problems. Lufthansa Cargo has taken crowd-sourcing a step further and has created a public co-innovation platform primarily targeted at finding innovative solutions for its supply chain. Lufthansa Cargo has launched Air Cargo Innovation Challenge and is [...]

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The Heat Is On For Indian IT Service Providers as Margin Pressures Mount!

by Ankit Agarwal

It goes without saying what the Indian IT sector has done for the economy of India. From the time the economy opened up, Indian IT bellwethers put India on the world map. No wonder then that the IT / ITES sector continues to be one of the most significant contributors to Indian GDP. Indian …

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Could The Indian BPO Sector Be In Trouble?

by Ankit Agarwal

Apologies for the extremity of the title because the premise could be a one-off anomaly. However, there is something fundamentally missing from the Indian BPO sector that could halt the growth of the sector in the times to come. A UK based company has stopped outsourcing its work to an Indian BPO (Mumbai) and …

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Now Obama urges US businesses to feed on Indian Middle-class Population!

by Viral Dholakia
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Well, you can say it’s almost an about-turn! The US President Barack Obama has come up with a view which now urges US business groups to target burgeoning middle-class population of India and China to seek demand for their products and accessories. In order to not sound too apprehensive over here, I would take …

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Move over outsourcing! Indians are creating jobs for Americans!!

by Aseem Rastogi
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America has for long been critical of Indians taking up jobs meant to be theirs. So much so that Obama has always criticised companies who first offer jobs to Indians and then their own citizens. He has introduced measures like higher taxes for companies who have branches in India and also brought down incentives for [...]

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Anti-offshoring bill blocked in Senate – Obama’s anti outsourcing rhetoric stopped in its tracks?

by Aseem Rastogi

Barack Obama has been critical of Indian outsourcing industry even before he came to the fold as the President. Be it in education or in the outsourcing industry he has always looked for opportunities to try to better Indians or go one up as the case may be. Nothing wrong with that – Except for [...]

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Could outsourcing to India be at threat not from anyone else but US itself? And NO, it’s not from Obama this time…

by Aseem Rastogi
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For years India has been the leading outsourcing destination for companies from the US. A number of factors like cheaper labour, lower costs, rising productivity and also the language factor have fuelled a boom in this sector. The recent speeches by Obama against it and also Philippines rise an alternative destination for outsourcing have not [...]

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Is There A Way To Curb The Increasing Attrition In IT Sector?

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Submitted by Anonymous Author Jobs are back ! After a horrendous past 1.5 years of the global economic slowdown which especially saw the jobs in IT industry vanish out of thin air, past few months have seen a complete turnaround. Hiring seems to be following an upward spiral with IT/ITES sector gunning for candidates. …

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Bharti Airtel–Perfect example of outsourcing all its activities! But can it succeed in Africa?

by Aseem Rastogi
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Airtel is one of the most prominent telecom companies in the world with its services spanning 19 countries in South Asia and Africa. It has a number of firsts to its credit which has positioned it much ahead of its competitors. It’s bouquet of fixed – line services, mobile services and also broadband have positioned [...]

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India remains Top Outsourcing destination by large Margin for American Companies…

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Even as talks of Outsourcing centered around recent ban by Ohio state – India remains at the top and most preferred Outsourcing Destination by large private U.S Corporations. According to recent survey released by Cap Gemini in partnership with Harris International, India has over 60 percent of the Outsourcing Market share in U.S. China …

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Ohio Bans Outsourcing – Another blow for Indian Software companies

by Arun Prabhudesai

The U.S state of Ohio has now banned outsourcing of Government projects to any off-shoring companies outside of U.S. The Ohio Governor has gone ahead and declared: “No Public Money should be spent on services provided Offshore. The purchase of offshore services with public funds undermines Economic Development, job creation and …

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China taking giant strides in Outsourcing services!

by Viral Dholakia
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The growth stories witnessed in India and China over the past decade can easily standout as torchbearers and growth engines of the world economy. While China excelled as the global manufacturing hub, India proudly emerged a low-cost outsourcing giant. But, a few startling facts suggests that China seems to be covering the grounds hard and [...]

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Mr.Obama, We Are Not Stealing Your Jobs!

by Ankit Agarwal

If there is anything that Mr. Obama has been vocal right from taking charge as the President of United States has been about Indians taking away American Jobs. He has voiced his thoughts on curtailing the practice of outsourcing jobs to India and even introduced tax benefits for companies not opting for outsourced services. But, [...]

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Emerging IT Outsourcing Trends For Year 2010

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IT Services Outsourcing Industry witnessed a rather dull year in 2009 majorly due to the slowdown of the global economy which led to organizations freezing their IT budgets. Banking and Manufacturing, which are the biggest customers for the IT Services sector struggled big time to stand on their feet and evidently the spend on IT [...]

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