Nasscom unveils roadmap for FY 2009

Nasscom unveils roadmap for FY 2009

Identifies a 6-point agenda with a stronger focus on BPO sector, education and skill building

Friday, April 11, 2008

HYDERABAD, INDIA: National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the trade body representing the Indian IT-BPO industry, today announced its six-point agenda for FY 2009 with key focus areas outlined.

"Nasscom has identified six underlying themes for the year, which will work as vectors for us to plan initiatives and focused programs around. Today, the IT industry is well on its way in making the transition to process quality and innovation, and we believe these themes will help us in charting the way forward and maintaining a steady growth curve for the industry,” said Ganesh Natarajan, chairman, Nasscom and global CEO, Zensar Technologies.

“We are looking at Creativity to enhance the existing opportunity to add new revenues over the next five years through product, process and business model innovation. In addition to Community and Collaboration, the new thrust areas we have identified – include Societal development and Inclusivity, Green IT and Education and skill building - are all extremely critical for sustaining the long term global leadership that this industry aspires to achieve,” Natarajan added.

“Towards this objective Nasscom will be encouraging environmental responsibility aided by the search for greater productivity and competitiveness, reducing waste and increasing efficiency under the ‘Green IT’ initiative, which is one of the six-point agenda for Nasscom. Additionally increased focus towards scaling and continuing initiatives towards education and skill building, global trade development and synchronising Nasscom’s education initiatives with government’s skill mission are key areas,” said Nasscom president Som Mittal.

Nasscom also announced the appointment of Raju Bhatnagar as vice president of Nasscom. "His domain expertise in the BPO sector will be of great value to Nasscom and the industry. We are also looking to further scale and continue the momentum on initiatives underway like NAC, NAC Tech and NSR,” Mittal added.

NASSCOM’s 6-point agenda for FY 2009

Creativity: Tap the opportunity to add new revenues through product, process and business model innovation

Community: Build communities of best practices that enable professionals to interact across organization and geography barriers.

Collaboration: Continue the collaboration between firms and with industry associations in key markets and collaboration countries.

Adoption of Green IT: Encourage environmental responsibility aided by the search for greater productivity and competitiveness, reducing waste and increasing efficiency.

Societal development and inclusivity: Strengthen rural India as a complementary force to urban India’s capabilities in the Industry. Gender inclusivity and inclusion of differently-abled workforce in the IT-BPO sectors

Education and skill building: Continue to undertake focused efforts towards developing an employable workforce through scaling of various ongoing initiatives

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