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New Value Leadership Group Strategy Paper

India: An Emerging Research Cluster

By Professor Srinivasa Rangan

Professor Rangan provides cutting-edge insights into the strategies companies are applying to leverage the emerging scientific research cluster in India.

This paper is based on a global Value Leadership Group next practice strategic research project involving the research centers of more than 20 companies in India including Philips, ABB, Motorola, HP, GM, and the Tata Group.

Professor Rangan’s paper builds on his work of almost 10 years with Professor Michael Porter at Harvard University.

Click here to download the complete study in PDF Format

The New Competitive Paradigm in European IT Services – Global Strategy Conference
in Stockholm

In June 2007, the Swedish investment bank, Handelsbanken Capital Markets, and the Value Leadership Group, hosted a global strategy conference in Stockholm. The theme of the conference was – The New Competitive Paradigm in European IT Services.

The Value Leadership Group provided exclusive analysis and CEOs from industry leaders gave important new insights into the competitive dynamics and likely future direction of the European IT services industry.

More than 125 senior executives from 18 countries and a cross section of industries were in attendance. Delegates and speakers gave this event the highest ratings.

Click here to download a 1-page anaylsis of the conference

Does your Offshoring
strategy create differentiation
and greater business value?

Read an exclusive interview on offshoring strategy with Peter Schumacher.

Best practice companies – regardless of size – are those that leverage offshoring to do things they would not be able to do otherwise. You can entrepreneurially rethink your business and implement organizational and service innovations.

Companies that are not thinking about offshoring strategically are likely to miss this opportunity.

This interview was released in Belgium in July 2008 in “Offshore Update” a publication of Applied Development, continental Europe’s first venture funded offshore services firm.

Click here to download the 1-page interview in English Language

Click here to download the 1-page interview in Belgian-Dutch Language

Featured Articles

Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Nov 02, 2009

Wooing talent with paid internships

TARGET GERMANY.

Adith Charlie
Mumbai, Nov. 1

Indian IT companies are wooing talent from German, Swiss and Austrian universities to work here as paid interns. This is part of a larger game plan to turn the tide in the traditionally unfavourable German market which is also the second largest market for software services in Europe.

Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant and Mindtree are among the nine companies that have taken the lead by joining hands with the Frankfurt-based Vibe Internships to create 50 paid internship positions in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, said Dr. Karl Kurbel, Project Supervisor of Vibe Internships and head of the Business Informatics Chair at the European University Viadrina (EUV).

Stipend
The interns will be paid between €150 and €600 (approximately Rs 10,000-
Rs 40,000) a month for three- to six-month projects for business development, test automation, software development etc, Dr. Kurbel told Business Line on telephone from Frankfurt. (Interestingly, Vibe Internships was established as a students’ project at the EUV.)

Traditionally, European countries have not been too gung-ho about sending IT jobs overseas largely because of cultural issues and linguistic barriers. Unlike in the US, where expatriate Indians run the client-facing business, companies in Germany prefer to deal with local talent.

As of 2008, the market for IT services in Germany was €33 billion. While the case for offshore services is slowly registering in the minds of German managers, only a very few really believe it is a strategic imperative.

This programme could help clear misgiving about offshoring causing job losses, as the participating offshore firms will create a significant number of new employment opportunities for top talent in Germany, said Mr. Peter Schumacher, President and CEO of Value Leadership Group, a strategic management consultancy firm, which advised Prof Kurbel and Vibe Internships for the initiative.

Image building
Indian IT firms are evaluating this initiative in the context of their market development and brand building strategy for Germany.

“As part of our brand building initiatives in Germany, we will get these interns to work out of our centres here as a result of which they will gain considerable exposure to the global delivery model. Our endeavour is to hire the best of these interns for client facing operations in Germany,” said Ms. Nandita Gurjar, Senior Vice-President and Global HR Head, Infosys Technologies.

Mr. Puneet Jetli, Head, People Function, at the Bangalore-based Mindtree Consulting, said the company was still working out the stipend details for the initiative. “We will try to structure the stipend in such a way that the interns can help recover the costs as well as see a bit of India,” he said.

Cognizant, Hexaware and L&T Infotech have also agreed to participate in this internship programme.

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