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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

Value Leadership Group in the news

Offshoring is for SMEs too, Says Study
By Vivek Seal

Global Services - Offshoring is not just for the Fortune 500 or FTSE 100. SMEs should also try to reap the benefit of globalizing their services delivery. European technology SMEs, in particular, stand to gain significant advantages by developing and implementing an offshore strategy, concludes a study by Value Leadership Group, a Europe-based management-consultancy firm.

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BPO blues: Study says Indians have `yes` problem
By Siddharth Zarabi

Hannover April 27, 2006 - Despite widespread use of English, India and Europe have significant cultural differences that are showing up as concrete obstacles to offshore work.

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Infosys erwartet steigende Nachfrage aus Europa

MÜNCHEN (COMPUTERWOCHE) - Infosys, einer der größten IT-Dienstleister Indiens, hofft für sein weiteres Wachstum auf steigende Aufträge aus Europa. President und Chief Executive Officer Nandan Nilekani sagte dem "Wall Street Journal", der in der vergangene Woche abgeschlossene Großauftrag der niederländischen Bank ABN Amro sei möglicherweise nur der Anfang einer ganzen Wellte von Aufträgen vom alten Kontinent.

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2005

Infosys Sees Surging Demand From European Companies
By Eric Bellman

BANGALORE, September 7, 2005 - Surging demand from Europe will power future growth at Infosys Technologies Ltd., one of India's two largest outsourcing companies, the company's president and chief executive officer, Nandan Nilekani, said.

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2003

The Indian software meltdown
By Indrajit Basu

KOLKATA, May 15, 2003 - What goes up must come down. This basic law of motion appears to be finally catching up with the Indian IT industry, particularly its famed software development sector.

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