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Examples of Recent Projects
Some of our research assignments in the recent past include:

Evaluation and Benchmarking of vendors in the legal publishing industry – Detailed Study of select offshore vendors in with an assessment of the capabilities in a variety of sub-segments. Pricing patterns / billing rates for specific segments within legal publishing.

Benchmarking for an Engineering Design Outsourcing operation - Identification and competitive intelligence on offshore engineering (civil infrastructure) design operations in India. Detailed data on employees, capabilities, nature of work, infrastructure, projects done, future plans, etc. for a dozen unlisted companies operating in this space.

Industry Overview and Partner Due Diligence in Medical Transcription
– An overview of the offshore medical transcription industry in India, benchmarking of suppliers and due diligence of operations and capabilities of selected vendor.

Opportunity Assessment Study - Canada as a near-shore destination - Commissioned by the Canadian government, this was a study of Indian ITES/BPO companies to understand the relative attractiveness of locating BPO centers in Canada.

Study to analyze market-size and acceptance for an auditing solutions provider company
- To validate whether various Indian centers (captive or third-party) that serve large US corporations, “could open doors” for the client’s company; and assess the “need” for auditing solutions amongst Indian outsourcing vendors.  

Study of captive units of global banking and financial services organizations - Analysis of BFS captives by size, geography, services provided, etc. Involved primary research (interviews) with executives at the top 100 financial institutions across the world.

Cost analysis for a legal outsourcing vendor – Detailed break-down of costs involved in setting up a legal BPO unit in India – under various heads including infrastructure, manpower, regulation, working capital, etc.

Competitive assessment of Call Center locations – India, Philippines, Jamaica, South Africa and Mexico – To help a US based call center company assess the relative attractiveness of offshoring locations. The study included manpower availability, quality and costs; English capabilities and issues such as accent neutralization; work culture and other cultural issues; attrition; telecom infrastructure availability and costs, etc.

Setting up a captive Offshore operation for a Financial Services firm – Coordination with various agencies (law firms, accountants, consultants, etc.) to enable start-up and ongoing compliance with various local laws and regulations. Researched comparative salaries in the BPO space, developed HR guidelines and provided various other types of support.

Comparison of India vs/ China: Telecom Software – Comparison of the relative attractiveness of India and China, as a possible offshore destination for telecom software development and R&D. Identification of potential vendors/partners
  • Country Analysis: Philippines BPO industry: Profile, Size, Growth & Drivers, Industry capabilities, Government benefits, Key players.
  • Opportunities for venture capital and private equity investment in India’s IT sector
  • Databases/ Profiles
  • Captives (IT & BPO) in India – Database of close to 300 captive IT and BPO outfits in India, along with analysis by service offering, vertical, ownership, size of operations, etc.
  • Captive Centers in China – Database of captive IT and BPO operations in China.
  • Detailed profiles on global IT/BPO service providers (US, UK, India, China & Russia).
  • Created a database of Malaysian IT providers
  • Identified and profiled providers with specific IT skills or capabilities, such as Seebeyond, BFSI, credit card processing, remote infrastructure monitoring, etc.
  • Vendor identification: IT vendors in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic who service the airline vertical
  • Preparation of a complete Human Resources manual for a financial services captive BPO in India, including all India related compliance and governance issues as well as the Design and Structuring of Salary, perks and employee benefits.  This included a Salary benchmarking exercise.


Location cost analysis - Comparison of costs (real estate, infrastructure, people, etc.) for IT/BPO companies in major cities across India


Note: This is not a complete list .

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