Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: What is your shortlist? What are the towns on your shortlist right now? Lalit Dhingra: I have short-listed a few, and we are very near closing on one.

Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Lalit Dhingra: The people who are doing BPO work in Manila want to venture into IT, too. Sramana Mitra: But they are different skill sets. If you want to do IT software development, you need a higher level of skills than if you are doing pure BPO

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Outsourcing: Lalit Dhingra, President Of NIIT Technologies (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: But that is true about TCS as well. TCS also has insurance clients, and so does Wipro. Lalit Dhingra: The difference is when you run and you compete, somebody wins, right? I am losing only because somebody says I want to give it to a

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Near-shoring And U.S. Policy

Last month, I had breakfast with Scott Case, CEO of Startup America, and we then started working with the organization. Here is my recent guest column for Startup America. One thought that has come to me frequently is that the U.S. is simply not doing enough to take advantage of the nearshore outsourcing trend that has

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