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Captives: Unlocking Efficiency

Organizations across industries leverage information technology for business differentiation and competitive advantage. In recent times, IT outsourcing to 3rd party IT vendors and globalization of technology practice, i.e. opening captive centers in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil, has allowed organizations to control escalating IT costs. This blog explores the options available to organizations to unlock efficiency within their captive.

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Emerging trends in IT captive center landscape

Captives are back in fashion. That’s the latest buzz in the IT industry. Decision to set up a captive, especially in India, has simplified over the years because of the following factors:

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Global Captive Trends: What influences companies in their location strategy for the captive

Captive centers provide largest cost savings and lowest risk to intellectual property. Once you have decided to set up the captive, the next key question is “where to set up captive”?

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Opportunity for captive centers: Reach for the pie

The benchmark of value will continue to rise with every quarter for all types of delivery centers, all over the world. This is true for IT, R&D and shared services centers alike. The journey from a cost savings center to an innovation hub can be a challenging one. Also, not all captive centers are equipped or willing to take the plunge to launch their services in the local markets. The questions remains then, how can captive centers continue to outperform themselves and demonstrate value to their parent organizations.

Here’s one trend that is fast catching up and captives can consider adding this service to their portfolios. ‘Marketing and Sales Process Outsourcing’.

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