Demonstrate or Die!!

It's time Indian outsourcing companies stop competing on price and start demonstrating the superior value they offer. It isnt easy, but there's help.

It appears global companies are hearing the end of the dramatic cost saving cycle and will now look for those who can demonstrate superior value offering through hard data. If they dont, they face commoditisation.

In a recent book Value Merchant: Demonstrating and Documenting Superior Value in Business Markets by James C. Anderson, Nirmalya Kumar and James A Narus ( Harvard Business School Press, Nov 2007), the authors have sounded the warning bell to Indian outsourcing companies. "Stop competing on price and start demonstrating superior value." Put simply Demonstrate or Die!


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Article taken from the issue: January

Bengaluru 2.0

The New Bengaluru can become a reality only if citizens start asking - What can we do for the city?

A century ago, the farisighted Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, granted land to Jamshedji Tata to establish the Indian Institute of science. The Tata Institute laid the foundation for Bengaluru's emergence as a centre of knowledge economy. The following decades saw the central government establishing may technology focused public sector companies, further enhancing our knowledge work force.

More recently, various state governments enable educational entrepreneurs and community organizations to establish private engineering colleges...

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