India Leading IT Comment on China

India’s Leading IT Outsourcers Comment on China China has been cited as the only country capable of challenging India’s outsourcing dominance. Sridhar Vedala and Nick Rossiter from Mithras Consulting Group, China (www.mithrasgroup.com) speak to the China heads of India’s leading outsourcing firms, and offer an analysis of China’s opportunities and threats. Conclusions regarding the potential of China as an IT and business process outsourcing destination have been mixed. China backers would have us believe that the country will present a formidable challenge to India’s dominance within the space of a few short years. Others point to China’s disadvantages and believe the gap is too large for China to bridge even within a decade. Regardless, the outsourcing industry in China is now experiencing a shakeup, as leading global providers such as HP, BearingPoint, and IBM setup IT and BPO centers in China. All the top Indian providers have also setup in China, and several are planning transformative growth strategies. According to Infosys’ Head of Sales & Marketing for Greater China, Vineet Toshniwal: “China will be a strategic base for us, as we view that the next generation Global Delivery Model will have integrated capabilities of India and China”. Satyam’s China head expressed similar views, while Chandra Sekaran, Managing Director of Cognizant stated that they view China as a: “potential global delivery center to provide offshore services to US, ...