In December 2006, Mumbai-based Tech Mahindra won India's biggest outsourcing deal to date -- a five-year, $1 billion contract from British Telecom to provide technical support. While the deal further underscores India's rapid ascent in global business, it also signals a transition for the world's "back office" from its current status as a provider of data processors and call-center workers to its new role in outsourcing high-end, knowledge-based skills.

In this special report, experts from Wharton and Boston Consulting Group look at India's move up the service value chain through KPO, or knowledge process outsourcing, as well as its increasingly successful forays into global manufacturing, driven by the emergence of a vast domestic market and the availability of low-cost, highly skilled workers.

In addition, the report looks at India's attempts to overcome the problems with power and infrastructure that have stood in the way of a sustainable GDP growth rate, as well as the key part that foreign investment and competition will play in the upgrade.

Download What's Next for India: Beyond the Back Office

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Contents:

A Tale of Two Sectors: What Can Indian Telecom Firms Teach the Power Industry about Reforms?

Indian BPO Firms Step Out of the Back Office, toward Knowledge Process Outsourcing and Beyond

India in the Global Supply Chain: Can Domestic Demand and Technology Skills Help It Catch Up?

Bharat Forge Pulls Ahead of Indian Manufacturing, but Obstacles Lie Ahead

What's Next for India Official Webpage

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