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US zooms in on Indian tech scene, urges firms to expand, create jobs
1 Jan 2010, 0334 hrs IST, Bloomberg
NEW DELHI | NEW YORK: Ohio governor Ted Strickland is quick to admit that he doesn’t “particularly enjoy heights.” So why would he climb into a Turn
cherrypicker to be lifted 40 feet in the air? To show off a 196,000-square-foot office park in the Cincinnati suburb of Milford to executives from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s biggest tech company.
To sweeten the deal, Mr Strickland threw in $19 million in tax credits and invited the TCS crew to a state dinner at the governor’s mansion. “The economy is difficult,” Mr Strickland says in the January 11 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “I will go wherever I can to find jobs.”
TCS said yes, and in November Mr Strickland showed up at the sprawling wooded campus for a ceremony to mark the hiring of the 300th employee at what has become the cornerstone for TCS’s North American efforts.
Tata has hired some 250 graduates of Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and other nearby schools. Soon the facility may employ as many as 1,000 Americans doing back-office and technology outsourcing for US health-care companies and local governments.
Atlanta, Dallas
With the economy growing again but unemployment stuck at double-digit levels, states and municipalities across the US are scrambling to woo anyone with hiring plans — even if that means going hat in hand to the same bunch that have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs going overseas.
Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Tallahassee have all been actively courting Indian tech outfits. Wipro Technologies in March inaugurated a centre in Atlanta, which now has 350 employees-nearly 300 of them Americans, including senior managers recruited from US tech rivals.
Infosys Technologies, meanwhile, is planning an operation in Dallas, to target some of the $52 billion the US government will spend on outsourcing work just in 2010.
For Indians, American facilities can mean more work on government and health-care projects — areas where laws prevent the transfer of data overseas. An on-the-ground strategy gives them access to local workers who can better understand cultural nuances.
And it lets them better compete against American rivals such as IBM and Accenture, which tend to win lucrative consulting contracts that hinge on solving complicated business problems on site, rather than simply writing computer code for cheap wages in India.
Public Relations?
“We need to become more efficient, more sophisticated,” says Sambuddha Deb, a Wipro vice-president who makes sure Wipro’s India-based and foreign employees work seamlessly together. “It’s not just about setting up software factories” in India.
Some critics say that the new centres are little more than political cover and that they do little to boost employment in the US.
Link : US zooms in on Indian tech scene, urges firms to expand, create jobs- Jobs-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
1 Jan 2010, 0334 hrs IST, Bloomberg
NEW DELHI | NEW YORK: Ohio governor Ted Strickland is quick to admit that he doesn’t “particularly enjoy heights.” So why would he climb into a Turn
cherrypicker to be lifted 40 feet in the air? To show off a 196,000-square-foot office park in the Cincinnati suburb of Milford to executives from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s biggest tech company.
To sweeten the deal, Mr Strickland threw in $19 million in tax credits and invited the TCS crew to a state dinner at the governor’s mansion. “The economy is difficult,” Mr Strickland says in the January 11 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “I will go wherever I can to find jobs.”
TCS said yes, and in November Mr Strickland showed up at the sprawling wooded campus for a ceremony to mark the hiring of the 300th employee at what has become the cornerstone for TCS’s North American efforts.
Tata has hired some 250 graduates of Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and other nearby schools. Soon the facility may employ as many as 1,000 Americans doing back-office and technology outsourcing for US health-care companies and local governments.
Atlanta, Dallas
With the economy growing again but unemployment stuck at double-digit levels, states and municipalities across the US are scrambling to woo anyone with hiring plans — even if that means going hat in hand to the same bunch that have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs going overseas.
Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Tallahassee have all been actively courting Indian tech outfits. Wipro Technologies in March inaugurated a centre in Atlanta, which now has 350 employees-nearly 300 of them Americans, including senior managers recruited from US tech rivals.
Infosys Technologies, meanwhile, is planning an operation in Dallas, to target some of the $52 billion the US government will spend on outsourcing work just in 2010.
For Indians, American facilities can mean more work on government and health-care projects — areas where laws prevent the transfer of data overseas. An on-the-ground strategy gives them access to local workers who can better understand cultural nuances.
And it lets them better compete against American rivals such as IBM and Accenture, which tend to win lucrative consulting contracts that hinge on solving complicated business problems on site, rather than simply writing computer code for cheap wages in India.
Public Relations?
“We need to become more efficient, more sophisticated,” says Sambuddha Deb, a Wipro vice-president who makes sure Wipro’s India-based and foreign employees work seamlessly together. “It’s not just about setting up software factories” in India.
Some critics say that the new centres are little more than political cover and that they do little to boost employment in the US.
Link : US zooms in on Indian tech scene, urges firms to expand, create jobs- Jobs-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times