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...This shift is being driven by a global economy in which the U.S. is no longer the undisputed engine of growth. India's IT powers, among them companies like TCS, Infosys Technologies and Wipro, rose to prominence largely on the decisions made by American executives, who were quick to capitalize on the cost savings to be gained by outsourcing noncore operations, such as systems programming and call centers, to specialists overseas. Focusing on the U.S. produced some spectacular results. Revenues in India's IT sector surged from $4 billion in 1998 to $59 billion in the country's fiscal year...
...NASSCOM's Gupta calls the crisis an "inflexion point" that has jarred Bangalore into moving more quickly into markets with higher potential for economic growth. K.R. Lakshminarayana, chief strategy officer at Wipro, says that, with the West mired in "an economic reboot," his company has over the past two years opened operations centers in China, Egypt and the Philippines, while expanding others in Brazil and Romania. These markets, he says, will help Wipro achieve its primary goal: "the maintenance of velocity." (Read "Stressed Out in India's Tech Capital...
...some 1,000 people a year in Latin America, where it now employs about 7,200, while in China it intends to nearly quintuple its staff to 5,000 over the next five years. "These emerging countries are now beginning to see the value of outsourcing," says Martha Bejar, Wipro's president of global sales and operations. If so, the future of India's outsourcing sector could prove as bright as its past...
...India's outsourcing giant WiPro (WIP) recently posted mediocre financial results, especially based on Wall St expectations. Its stock traded for $14 a little over a year ago. Recently it was as low as $5. Wall St. expects that the situation at the firm is going to get worse. The other large outsourcing operation in India, Infosys (INFY), is also doing poorly...
...large part of the training is overcoming cultural differences. "The handshake, if you are a woman, is tricky," says Geetika Verma, an instructor at Dale Carnegie Training who has previously worked at Wipro. "We tell our female students, if a man doesn't reach out to shake your hand, take the first step and shake his hand. Show confidence." Other tips include learning to address everyone by their first name, and handling networking lunches and dinners. Another significant part is developing self-confidence. "Youngsters raised in lower-middle-class families and in smaller towns, when they manage to enter good...