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Kurukshetra 2005 @ XIM Bhubaneswar By making the Global Delivery Model the core strength the top tier IT companies have become the leaders and have put the incumbent models at a disadvantage. But is that the end of it? Can they come up with business innovations that can be extended to higher value services like Systems Integrations and Consulting? In this new battle, the victor is obvious - a company that combines world class consulting with world class execution, built on the foundation of Global delivery model. No longer content to dominate the relatively anonymous but low-risk business of writing code on contract, leading Indian IT firms are pushing upstream into more lucrative full-service consulting. The question remains "can they make an impression in the IT consulting field". KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) : Why all the hype? According to a study by a leading venture capital financing firm, KPO revenues will be $ 16 billion by 2010. Is KPO for real or is it just BPO by another name?? What does India need to get a slice of this pie, if any? Indian IT Industry: Talents unlimited or Talent Crunch India faces huge shortage of software product developers who can think "out-of-the-box" ideas and concepts but the educational institutes are churning out engineers suited mainly for the IT services market. Does this pose a challenge for India to go global by restricting our foray into the products market? OPSveda Global Supply Chain and India Whether its components or complete products, managing supply chain has become a key competitive advantage. The importance of supply chain in India can be gauged from the fact that logistics cost is in the range of 10-12% of our GDP. Supply chain integration or RFID, new concepts and technologies are transforming supply chain. How India will be able to become the part of global supply chain? What India has to offer to supply chain? What strategies corporation should use to take advantage of India's geographic location, human capital, mineral resources, and technologies? Contributed by - |
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