GOA as a BPO destination for Multinationals.

I was going through an article on Business Standard :

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mncs-bet-big-on-their-india-it-centres-115052501487_1.html

It is interesting to note that Mr. Karthik Ananth, director, Zinnov is mentioning about the growth of Global in-house centres (GIC) in India. As per him most of the multinational firms prefer setting up global captives, or global in-house centres (GIC), in India. Amazingly, in the past two years, 70 companies set up GICs in India, taking the number to more than 1,448, with a headcount of 74,500.

GICs are an integral part of the Indian IT-BPO (information technology-business process outsourcing) sector. GICs have been viewed as cost-saving centres for parent organisations. But, with the growth of the global sourcing sector, GICs in India are evolving into centres of excellence, profit centres, and program management offices.

Over five years, around 220 GICs have been set up, with firms from Europe and Japan showing higher inclination, said the study by Zinnov. These GICs will hit a revenue of $20 billion a year in 2015, a growth of 11 per cent over FY10. Of this, almost 52 per cent will come from software product development and embedded engineering services; 25 per cent from BPM (business process management) and 23 per cent from IT.

I believe most of the setups he is talking about should be based out of Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon, Pune or Mumbai? I wonder what is stopping them from coming to Goa?

On the yesterday’s Goa’s news daily “Herald” Sweta Kamat’s article says Goa Government, through Infotech corporation is floating a tender to hire services of a consultant to study the IT market in Goa. It seems a special consultant is required to study the IT growth in Goa up to date. I personally feel with above information that there is a huge scope of getting business and multinationals in Goa right away without any studies. We have good enough provisions to offer if the Government officials are ready to get on to their toes for some time now on.

It seems the consultant will study :

1)    Current status of software and hardware industry. (Lets say nothing is available today)

22)    Existing infrastructure. (We have to make it available just like any other mega project)

33)    Existing communication facilities. (Its DONE)

44)    Ongoing government incentives available to software and hardware. (Not required)

55)    Status on availability of skilled manpower in Goa (Excellent, all the experienced Goa guys will rush back and we have freshers in bulk.)

From where will the hired consultant get this above mentioned information? I suppose he will be paid for enjoying his holidays in Goa, make free trips to major IT cities, come back to Goa and google the information and copy and paste the matter, print, bind and submit to the board?

Anyways, lets hope for the best and see how quick can we get the them moving for the best interests of IT professionals in Goa.

Gopikant Shirodkar

Director, Business Development – GoITway Software Consulting & Services

www.goitway.com