Yet these leadership and management traits are likely ill-suited to managing a team of U.S. engineers, a Japanese Internet company or Indian software outsourcing architects.
But something is wrong with this picture: The three main pillars of this booming business enterprise software, outsourcing and Y2K fixes all are looking a little shaky.
The celebrated software and outsourcing industries are only the latest evidence of the effectiveness of the reforms, which have created hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and generated billions in export revenues.
When Vietnam first began outsourcing software development services, companies faced challenges building trust and brand recognition globally.
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Three decades later, the city has become a major hub for software and service outsourcing, and the local government is pouring funds into the tourism sector.
According to the Konza information website, the city wants to attract business process outsourcing, software development, data centres, disaster recovery centres, call centres and light assembly manufacturing industries.
For all the talk about outsourcing, software is also growing.
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David Colesante is the chief technology officer at VeriCenter, a Houston outsourcing company that runs software for 500 customers using 8, 000 servers.
My documentation shows that this breach in the OPM position standard occurred sometime after October 1987 (and the outsourcing of deficient financial software to ALL federal departments, bureaus, and agencies).
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India's wildly successful software and business-process-outsourcing industries blossomed not because of help from the government, but precisely because its Licence Raj did not understand these nascent fields well enough to choke them off.
Economic activities unknown to Nehru, such as software development, back-office outsourcing, call centres and the like are flourishing unchecked, though more traditional sectors are still being freed only gradually from the suffocating red tape of the old licence raj.
Our definition of the IT market included business and government purchases of computer and communications equipment, software, and IT consulting and outsourcing services it did not include their purchases of telecommunications services, which are declining in the US and growing slowly globally.
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Their bet is that India will be an outsourcing centre not just for software but for call centres and other back-office services that can be delivered by wire.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.
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An engineer from the elite Indian Institute of Technology, he started his career as a low-paid software engineer at a time when India's outsourcing industry was still to take off.
Going forward, the hardest hit companies will likely be those whose offerings are strongly concentrated in high-performance hardware or software, rather than nitty-gritty tasks like outsourcing data centers or security and compliance spending.
That is below the projected growth rate for the outsourcing services industry--the National Association of Software and Services Companies forecasts the industry's revenue to increase 12%-14%.
The same thing is true of outsourcing deals when data is shipped to a third party that is developing software or executing load or performance tests.
The valley responded by revamping its own manufacturing operations, outsourcing many of them, and by diversifying into other areas, particularly computer software.
It offers outsourcing services to clients interested in developing credit scoring systems as well as selling software for a client to use in-house.
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