How Accenture One-Upped Bangalore
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_17/b4031098.htm
I guess this is what they mean by domain experience. One thing that this reinforces is that IT has always been and will always be an enabler. You need strong domain knowledge. A new firm can’t just walk right into the pharmacy business or banking business and start writing code from day 1. Either the start up needs to have some one, say a retired bank official, in its staff to bring the domain knowledge or needs to be heavily guided by the client company, t he latter making very less business sense for the client when there are other players out there with the knowledge unless there is a significant cost advantage!!!, strategic alliance or something?
The Accenture business model, as I understand after reading this, seems to be the way to go, but how viable would it be for a start up is questionable especially since these domain experts are bound to cost more than the average coder.
But the fact that they have PhD’s from the pharmacy domain working with them truly helps me look at the outsourcing outside of the narrow IT mindset that I have.
