Indian IT outsourcing industry: Future threats and challenges

• Published in: Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies Vol. 56; pp. 73 - 80
• Main Author: Sharma, Dinesh C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2014; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Body shopping; Business growth; Business process outsourcing; Cloud computing; Competitive advantage; Custom application software; Demographic dividend; Disruptive technologies; Global delivery model; Information technology; IT enabled services; Knowledge process outsourcing; Nano computing; Outsourcing; Product development; Quantum computing; R & D services; R&D; Research & development; Studies; India; Cloud computing; Nano computing; Body shopping; IT enabled services; R & D services; Global delivery model; Information technology; Disruptive technologies; Quantum computing; Demographic dividend; Outsourcing; Business process outsourcing; Custom application software; Knowledge process outsourcing

The Indian Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry has often been a subject of envy among developing economies, for the rapid growth it has recorded in the past two decades. From being a destination of low-cost technical labour and a pioneer of ‘body shopping’ model, th...