NASSCOM: Industry Trends

Refer NASSCOM page for Trends:
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=56966

1. GLOBAL SOURCING TRENDS

2. IT-BPO SECTOR-OVERVIEW
2a. IT SERVICES, ENGINEERING SERVICES, R&D AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
2b. BPO MARKET
2c. HARDWARE MARKET

3. INDIAN’S IT-BPO VALUE PROPOSITION

4. FUTURE OUTLOOK

Where software vendors should focus

Refer Article:
https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/High_Tech/Software/Where_software_vendors_should_focus_2202 Extract from article
.............Software vendors do better when they focus on capabilities that are crucial for their particular products and customers. ..................................

Cost champions concentrate on standardized architectures, tools, and processes, all of which cut expenses by promoting predictable results and minimal rework.

Innovators foster creativity by encouraging their people to develop new capabilities and by supporting an organizational mind-set that rewards novel ideas.

Perfectionists secure their niche by focusing on quality.

Integrators excel at standardization in order to get value from organizations they acquire.

Logistics in emerging markets

Refer the article:
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Transportation/Logistics_in_emerging_markets_1557

Many developing countries, out of necessity, concentrate on building critical infrastructure such as airports, highways, and shipping ports to foster their growing economies. But once the basics are in place, less visible efforts to improve the flow of goods through a country can have a stronger economic impact than another pier, runway, or paved mile, a recent McKinsey study shows.