NASSCOM Announces Roadmap for FY 2009

NASSCOM, the premier trade body representing the Indian IT-BPO
industry, today announced its roadmap for FY 2009 with key focus areas
outlined. These were shared at a press conference addressed by the
recently appointed Chairman - Ganesh Natarajan, Vice Chairman - Pramod
Bhasin and NASSCOM President, Som Mittal.

Speaking about the roadmap for the year, Dr. Ganesh Natarajan,
Chairman, NASSCOM and Global CEO, Zensar Technologies said “NASSCOM has
identified six underlying themes for the year which will work as
vectors for us to plan initiatives and focussed programmes around.
Today, the IT industry is well on its way in making the transition to
process quality and innovation, and we believe these themes will help
us in charting the way forward and maintaining a steady growth curve
for the industry”.

Elaborating on the themes, Dr. Natarajan
added, “We are looking at Creativity to enhance the existing
opportunity to add new revenues over the next five years through
product, process and business model innovation. In addition to
Community and Collaboration, the new thrust areas we have identified –
include Societal development and inclusivity, Green IT and Education
& skill building - are all extremely critical for sustaining the
long term global leadership that this industry aspires to achieve.”

Talking about the enhanced focus on BPO sector, Mr. Pramod Bhasin,
Vice Chairman NASSCOM and President & CEO, Genpact said “at this
interesting growth curve and with the growing maturity of the industry,
we now see the need for increased collaboration of the IT and BPO
sectors. We also plan to focus on education and security, through
various initiatives already underway since these are very critical
pillars for the realization of the industry’s objectives.”

Mr. Som Mittal,
President, NASSCOM said, “NASSCOM has always been at the forefront of
leadership for the industry and taking the first step in adopting and
raising awareness about issues and initiatives that are critical to the
industry and the country. Towards this objective NASSCOM will be
encouraging environmental responsibility aided by the search for
greater productivity and competitiveness, reducing waste and increasing
efficiency under the ‘Green IT’ initiative, which is one of the 6 point
agenda for NASSCOM. Additionally increased focus towards scaling and
continuing initiatives towards education and skill building, global
trade development and synchronising NASSCOM’s education initiatives
with Government’s Skill mission are key areas.”

He
further added “We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Raju
Bhatnagar as Vice President NASSCOM. His domain expertise in the BPO
sector will be of great value to NASSCOM and the industry. We are also
looking to further scale and continue the momentum on initiatives
underway like NAC, NAC Tech and NSR”.

NASSCOM’s 6-point agenda for FY 2009

• Creativity
  o Tap the opportunity to add new revenues through product, process and business model innovation
• Community
  o Build communities of best practices that enable professionals to interact across organisation and geography barriers
• Collaboration
  o Continue the collaboration between firms and with industry associations in key markets and collaboration countries
• Adoption of Green IT
  o Encourage
  environmental responsibility aided by the search for greater
  productivity and competitiveness, reducing waste and increasing
  efficiency
• Societal development and inclusivity
  o Strengthen
  rural India as a complementary force to Urban India’s capabilities in
  the Industry. Gender inclusivity and inclusion of differently-abled
  workforce in the IT-BPO sectors
• Education and skill building
  o Continue
  to undertake focussed efforts towards developing an employable
  workforce through scaling of various ongoing initiatives