A Life-changing Trip to India

By Bob Compton, Guest Author On my first trip to India several years ago, I never imagined how visiting a classroom of first graders in Bangalore would change my life forever. But that is exactly what happened on my very first trip through exotic, engaging, emerging India in 2005.

Vision India 2020: MIT India

Twelve years ago, in 2008, it was clear that the labor arbitrage–based IT services industry that had made India a player in the global technology market was facing a threat. The key issue was supply-demand equilibrium. India’s engineering education system simply could not keep up with the demand for talent.

India’s Labor Arbitrage Strategy

It has been an interesting few days of being on the receiving end of tremendous hate mail due to my widely syndicated and (looks like) read and discussed Death of Indian Outsourcing article.

McKinsey Study on the Growth of India’s Middle Class

Republishing this piece to remind readers why urban congestion is a danger that the Tata Nano aggravates: Great article from McKinsey Quarterly, that offers the following projections: * Over the next 20 years, India will likely grow to become the world’s fifth-largest consumer economy, up from 12th now. * A study by the McKinsey Global

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Trend Radar 2008: Offshoring

Did you know, China now offshores manufacturing to Vietnam? If Pakistan behaved itself, may be India would start offshoring some call-centers over! In 2008, outsourcing, offshoring and globalization are likely to continue as major trends. Rising wages in the most popular offshore centers (especially Bangalore), are eroding the cost advantage that drove this business to

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Nokia and the Indian Handset Market: Raincheck

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author As we saw in the prequel to this piece, India is a very attractive market for handset vendors. Nokia, is perhaps the best prepared to address this exploding market. So, what does Nokia have going for it in India?

India is Outsourcing Outsourcing

Have a look at this article from NY Times: Outsourcing Works, So India is Exporting Jobs. :: MYSORE, India — Thousands of Indians report to Infosys Technologies’ campus here to learn the finer points of programming. Lately, though, packs of foreigners have been roaming the manicured lawns, too. Many of them are recent American college

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Offshoring Secrets: Is India Center Becoming Costly?

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Recently this question has flooded the web and the print media. Some companies are thinking about pulling back from India. So what is the real answer? Globally, weakening of the dollar has impacted almost every country whether it is Israel, China, Malaysia or Poland, and therefore

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