Product Development in a Flat World

Global product engineering to India grows 40% in last 3 years

Subhash Nair — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:14:41 +0000

The recent report by Booz & Company with Nasscom shows continued growth in global engineering predominantly to India. Overall spending on ER&D increased 12% from $980 billion in 2008 to $1.1 trillion in 2009 and is expected to expand to $1.4 trillion by 2020. India, a pioneer and leader in the global sourcing industry, remains [...]

Zinnov’s 2009 Top Rated Outsourced Product Development Providers

Subhash Nair — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:55:11 +0000

The folks over at Zinnov are the best when it comes to advice and research data on R&D and product development outsourcing. So if you are evaluating partners for product engineering outsourcing, then you need to take a look at this report titled 2009 R&D Service Provider Rating. The #1 rated companies in each category [...]

Outcome-based engineering outsourcing: Are you ready?

Subhash Nair — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:30:54 +0000

More and more firms are rapidly adopting outcome based outsourcing models for product development. However, not all are ready for it as these quotes from recent articles mention. Down To Business: Outsourcing’s Next Big Thing (InformationWeek) Outcome-based outsourcing isn’t more widespread, Brooks says, because most vendors and customers aren’t prepared to manage them. All outcomes, [...]