Reposition as a Business Solution Provider (Consulting Company)

So what’s hot NEWS now days in IT business circle and what most CEO working to achieve..? Not difficult to guess I feel with floating articles and interview. Take it Michel dell (Dell Computer), Azim H.Premji (Wipro) or Kris Gopalakrishnan (Infosys) for example and one thing is common among them is their efforts to position respective companies as not just a hardware and software providers but a Business Solution Provider.

This is something new and critical for Indian IT companies from two prospects:

• First is offshoreing card, this has becoming more and more irrelevant in last couple of years and they need new differentiators to compete in global market place.
• Clients focus has shifted from cost cutting to value addition as this improve ROI drastically on IT investments.

Now before we see how these companies trying to move up in value chain ladder, let see what all value creation activities possible in IT industry.