Archive for the ‘NASSCOM Research’
THE NORDIC REGION The Indian IT-BPO Industry’s Gateway to Fortress Europe
The Nordic region– constituted by Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland is emerging as a potential playground for India’s IT-BPO industry. There are several factors that make the Nordic bunch a high opportunity market, with significant business avenues for IT and outsourcing services providers.
A recent study by [...]
Role of 3G in India’s Mobile Future – Should India Skip 3G and go to LTE?
India continues to be one of the world’s fastest-growing telecommunications market due to a progressive regulatory regime, huge capital outlays for network expansion by operators, reductions in tariffs and cost of handsets. The mobile subscriber base at the end of June 2009 has reached a new milestone with more than 409 million mobile subscribers, registering [...]
NASSCOM announces Industry Performance and Rankings
Indian IT-BPO Industry continues to exhibit resilience due to strong fundamentals
According to the findings of NASSCOM Annual Survey on performance of Indian IT-BPO industry, the sector reached USD 58.8 billion in FY2008-09 up from USD 52 billion in FY2007- 08. Export revenues for the Indian IT-BPO industry recorded a growth of [...]
The Impact of Global Change on India’s BPO Industry
I read a book a few months ago called ‘The rule of three’, by Jagdish Seth and Rajendra Sisodia that examined patterns of market evolution in the context of radical disruption that can occur when technology, regulation or a new entry in the marketplace succeeds in altering the rules. In a [...]
Strengthening Women Power: Narrowing the Gender Divide
With annual revenues of USD 60 billion, the Indian IT-BPO industry has emerged as the largest private sector employer in the country, with direct employment of 2.23 million professionals and indirect employment of over 8 million people in different industry sectors. Interestingly, the sector is responsible for recruiting the largest number [...]
NASSCOM Launches Strategic Review 2009 at the India Leadership Forum
The annual study on the performance of the Indian IT-BPO industry points to double digit growth in 2007-08, but tougher time ahead.
NASSCOM’s Strategic Review, the final word on the annual statistics related to the Indian IT-BPO industry, was released at the India Leadership Forum 2009 in Mumbai. The study described [...]
Building a Case for Telecommuting
The government’s decision to make changes in the ‘work-from-home’ policy is a welcome step, says NASSCOM.
The August 2008 announcement by the Government of India regarding a change in the ‘work-from-home’ policy is expected to transform the IT-BPO landscape, providing a big boost to telecommuting. The IT-BPO industry, along with NASSCOM, has been urging the government [...]
NASSCOM Announces Ranking of Top 15 Exciting Emerging Companies to Work For
Recognising the high performance, proliferation and increasing importance of emerging companies within the IT-BPO ecosystem, NASSCOM has been actively tracking their evolution and growth. In the last three years, around 371 start-ups have become operational in the products arena alone.
As a part of this activity, NASSCOM has been coming out [...]
Making the Move into LPO
A number of leading BPOs in India are adding Legal Process Outsourcing services into their portfolio. Here’s why.
Wipro and Infosys foraying into the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) business may sound a bit out of place initially, but when viewed as part of a business strategy for the flat world, they appear to be key moves [...]
Managing in the Economic Downturn: A Human Resources Perspective on IT-BPO Organisations
The developments in the global financial and banking sector in the last year have had a profound impact on the global financial system including the outsourcing industry in India.
In partnership with NASSCOM, Hewitt Associates has conducted a dip-stick study of large and medium IT-BPO companies to understand the preliminary impact of the downturn. According to [...]
Tamil Nadu: Making a Strong Pitch for the IT-BPO Industry
For many years it was New Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra that dominated the Indian IT-BPO landscape. That is until Tamil Nadu, staked its claim to the IT-BPO pie and is fast carving a place for itself as a preferred investment destination for the industry.
By providing sops such as 100 per cent additional FSI to IT [...]
