Stan Gibson

MUMBAI, India—Among the forces arrayed to thwart Indias march to the center of the world technology stage, none draws more fire from executives than the Indian educational system. A recent study by McKinsey and Co. which was sponsored by Nasscom, found that India will need 2.3 million information technology and business process outsourcing workers by […]

It has become practically conventional wisdom on the subcontinent: India will do in IT what Japan has done in the auto industry—dominate it. But to make that happen, Indian companies will need to reinvent themselves: Call it India 2.0. Executives at Indias top technology services companies know their extraordinary ride of recent years wont last […]

MUMBAI, India—Outsourcing to India has delivered rich rewards for a number of companies, freeing up scarce funds to fuel strategic investments and, in some cases, corporate turnarounds. Next up: enlisting Indian partners to revamp business processes. And those partners are willing. Indian providers are increasingly moving beyond a reliance on labor arbitrage to create intellectual […]

Alone among companies, IBM can bring business consulting, data center management and application development expertise to bear—and thats just in services, never mind hardware and software. Its a potent combination, gathered together to satisfy customers who wanted—as former IBM CEO and erstwhile IBM customer Lou Gerstner once did—a single number to call for all IT […]

There comes a time when size alone is not enough. IBM Global Services reached that point last year when IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano divided the unit, which is responsible for $47 billion of IBMs $91 billion in revenue, into three pieces. The units and their leaders are: Enterprise Business Services, headed by Ginni […]

Outsourcing to India has delivered rich rewards for a number of companies, freeing up scarce funds to fuel strategic investments and, in some cases, corporate turnarounds. Next up: enlisting Indian partners to revamp business processes. And those partners are willing. Indian providers are increasingly moving beyond a reliance on labor arbitrage to create intellectual property […]

Its always been important to step up to the plate and work for the best deal you can get with your outsourcing partner. As the industry evolves and matures, outsourcing providers are getting sharper, as are customers. That makes getting an edge in the art of the contract more elusive and, at the same time, […]

MUMBAI, India—Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam called on the Indian IT services industry to out-do its already spectacular success, achieving a size of $200 billion by the year 2010. With $28.4 billion in revenue in 2005, the goal is extremely ambitious. According to a McKinsey study commissioned by Nasscom, healthy growth ought to take […]

MUMBAI, India—India could be home to the worlds dominant IT firms in 20 years–if. That was the theme of a panel discussion during the first day of the Nasscom 2006 conference here. Arun Maira, chairman of the Boston Consulting Group, India, said that India could do in IT what the Japanese have done in the […]

General Motors, in the week of Jan. 30, awarded $7.5 billion in technology contracts over the next five years. Not included in the deal were hardware, software and application development expenses. That work will be parceled out as the need arises. In addition, telecommunications contracts are being bid separately and will be announced later this […]