http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Dr--Shikha-Suman/59077 Dr. Shikha Suman is an author at ArticleSnatch.com Article Directory. Below are the most recent articles from Dr. Shikha Suman. For more of articles by Dr. Shikha Suman please use the link above. http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Dr--Shikha-Suman/59077 http://static.articlesnatch.com/i/logo.gif en-us http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Dr--Shikha-Suman/59077 PHP/5.0.26 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Economy-Slowdown--Effect-on-Industry-Verticals/605811 Sampling Research conducted online survey with 1500 professionals and according to almost 34% percent of respondents; export sector would get affected most followed by IT sector as these two verticals are mostly dependent on countries abroad. The least affected sector would be education. ITES and KPO would also be affected according to 20% of respondents. Hence it is safe to say that education is the least affected. According to the analysis of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assoc ham), exports target of India are likely to remain below the target for the fiscal year 2008-09. Assocham Projects that export will remain 20% below the target of $200 Billion for the financial year 2009. This does not come as a surprise given the fact that 35% of total exports from India are to US and Europe and these countries are in a recession. Exports in terms of revenues were further hit as the dollar depreciated. As fuel prices increased, costs on coastal transportation also saw an upswing. All these factors put together saw the export sector facing the major brunt of the economic recession. **End Summary** Topics: knowledge process outsourcing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Economy-Slowdown--Effect-on-Industry-Verticals/605811 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-Outsourcing-Catch/605796 In his first address to the joint session of the US congress President Obama said that his government will not give tax breaks to US companies that ship American jobs abroad. If this move is made legislation it will hurt India’s BPO sector. India Inc is reacting to these statements very cautiously. Will these moves affect Indian or American companies, and given they do, which of them will get affected to a greater extent. From the American perspective it is natural for the just elected President to be protectionist given the alarming state the country is in. 8,00,000 American white collar jobs believed to have been lost to outsourcing in India and elsewhere between 2000 and 2006. 14.1 million Americans currently holding jobs considered to be at the risk of being outsourced. 57 % of Americans with income over $ 100,000 actively supported free trade in 1999 that was when white collar jobs were not moved abroad number fell to 28 % in 2004 after outsourcing became common. From $ 5 billion dollars spent in 2000 the amount spent by US firms on offshore services from third party outsources rose to $ 78 billion in 2006. **End Summary** Topics: Outsourcing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-Outsourcing-Catch/605796 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Pharmaceutical-Outsourcing---Opportunity-for-India-/605794 The global pharmaceutical markets were estimated at US$712bn in the year 2008 growing at 6.4 percent over 2006. This has grown at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7 percent for the period 2002-07. The market size of USA is estimated at US$295-305bn with an estimated growth rate of 4-5 percent. It is followed by Top 5 European countries (EU-5) with an estimated market size of US$135-145bn growing at 4-5%, emerging markets VIZ., Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and Turkey with an estimated market size of US$85-90bn. (growing at 12-13%) and Japan with an estimated market size of US$64-68bn (growing at 1-2%). The pharmaceutical market size of the rest of the world (ROW) is estimated at US$125-135bn which is estimated to grow at 7-8 percent in the coming years. The Indian Pharmaceuticals sector has come a long way, being almost non-existing during 1970, to a prominent provider of health care products, meeting almost 95% of country’s pharmaceutical needs. The pharmaceutical sector is emerging as one of the major contributors to Indian exports with export earnings rising from a negligible amount in early 1990s to Rs.29,139.57 crores by 2007-08. **End Summary** Topics: pharmaceutical industry]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Pharmaceutical-Outsourcing---Opportunity-for-India-/605794 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Legal-Offshoring--India-s-Pie-/605788 In this highly competitive global market every corporation requires to work on minimal margins and they required adopting cost cutting measures and that is where outsourcing became imperative. Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the third big Leap of outsourcing industry in India, after Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). LPO is an activity or practice to get legal support services from legal services’ firms or corporations. In the beginning, LPO covered mostly low-end transcription work (Data management, Word Processing, Litigation support, Book-keeping and reconciliations etc.) but now LPO also includes a huge range of high end legal processes such as patent application drafting, legal research, pre-litigation documentation, advising clients, writing software licensing agreements and drafting distribution agreements. The total market size of Global LPO business is around USD 250 billion. And out of this US alone captures two third of LPO business. The growing cost of Legal services in USA leads it to outsource or offshore the legal activity. It was very necessary for US law firms to obtain the Legal support services from outside to either save their business by cost cutting or for profit making. **End Summary** Topics: legal process outsourcing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Legal-Offshoring--India-s-Pie-/605788 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Now-its-our-time--INDIA-INC--GOING-GLOBAL/605759 The words still ring in my ears….”We must fasten our seat belts…. Our economy is set to open to the world…..” These were the words said by the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao while he was addressing the nation in 1991, opening India’s closed economy, till then, to the world.In the next two years we saw thousands of multinational brands in India. Indians got access to foreign banks, cars, clothes and even fast good joints. While this was happening inside India the common man did not notice the surge of foreign takeovers by Indian companies. India being an attractive FDI destination also became a major Foreign Direct Investor. This trend became more rapid after 2003. The Government in 2004 removed the cap of US $ 100million on foreign investment by Indian companies and raised it to the net worth of the company.India is such a diverse country. On the one hand it houses the world’s largest population under the poverty line and on the other the Forbe’s list of the richest in the world has at least 10 % Indians featuring….. **End Summary** Topics: globalisation]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Now-its-our-time--INDIA-INC--GOING-GLOBAL/605759 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Concrete-Cement-Poles--Indian-Industry-Analysis/591450 Concrete is a mixture of cement & stone aggregate. When mixed with a small amount of water, the cement hydrates to form a microscopic opaque crystal lattice structure encapsulating and locking the aggregate into its rigid structure. An artificial stone-like material used for various structural purposes. It is made by mixing cement and various aggregates, such as sand, pebbles, gravel, shale, etc., with water and allowing the mixture to harden by hydration. Pressed Concrete poles for electrical H.T. and L.T. lines widely used now a days in different power distribution in the villages specially rather than towns. There is no environmentally pollution problem arises in this industry. There is fair market demand for electrical poles. When an automobile collides with a concrete pole on the road, the concrete pole deflects once and then resumes its original vertical posture by elasticity. When the impact is strong and results in a large deflection, however, the reinforcing bars in the interior are plastically deformed with an elongation of only 0.2%. The concrete pole can not resume the original posture, remaining as deformed. The deformed concrete pole thus forms a traffic hindrance, and poses a danger. **End Summary** Topics: concrete cement poles]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Concrete-Cement-Poles--Indian-Industry-Analysis/591450 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Natural-Mineral-Water--Indian-Industry-Analysis/591446 Natural mineral water According to American and European Regional Codex Standard, natural mineral water: is obtained directly from natural or drilled sources from underground water - bearing strata. is collected under conditions which guarantee the original natural bacteriological purity. is bottled at the point of emergence of the source with particular hygienic precautions is not subjected to any chemical treatment. Indian bottled Water Industry The bottled water industry in India is estimated at about Rs 1,000 crore and is growing at 40 per cent. "By 2010, it will reach Rs 4,000 - 5,000 crore with 33 per cent market for natural mineral water. The formal bottled water business in India can be divided broadly into three segments in terms of cost: premium natural mineral water, natural mineral water and packaged drinking water. It is estimated that the global consumption of bottled water is nearing 200 billion litres - sufficient to satisfy the daily drinking water need of one-fourth of the Indian population or about 4.5 per cent of the global population at the fourth World Water Forum held in Mexico City in March 2006. **End Summary** Topics: water industry]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Natural-Mineral-Water--Indian-Industry-Analysis/591446 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/DTH-Services-and-Market-Research---------Brief-profiling-of-the-Cable-Industry-in-India/591436 India is a country having 22 officially recognized languages. People speaking all these different languages are spread across the length and breadth of the country. For the survival of all these players in this sector where the customer is the king, a fair deal of Market Research” is needed. Television is a huge industry with thousands of programs. It is remarkable to know that almost half of all Indian households own a television which is astonishing given that 77 % of the population earns less than Rs.20/-per day. . The first telecast was made by the state owned Doordarshan” on 15th September 1959 in New Delhi. India has come a long way from the good old days of transmission for limited number or hours to a houseful of Indian homes. After 1991 the television industry too went through major transition, thanks to the economic and social reforms undertaken by the Narasimha Rao government. This gave rise to foreign channels like CNN, Star TV and domestic channels such as Zee TV and Sun TV which started broadcasting in India. **End Summary** Topics: cable industry]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/DTH-Services-and-Market-Research---------Brief-profiling-of-the-Cable-Industry-in-India/591436 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Corporatization-of-healthcare-in-India--The-liberalization-effect/591434 One of the most significant trends emerging in the wake of liberalization is the new vigour of the entry of corporate hospitals and multinationals in the health care scenario. The reason for this new tempo is the potential that India offers to NRIs and multinationals. With the current ratio of population to all types of beds being 1300: 1, it has been estimated that there is a huge demandsupply gap which may require nearly 3.6 million beds to overcome it. Taking into account the requirements of primary and secondary health care, the shortfall is estimated to be around 2.9 million beds. In tertiary health care, the gap may be somewhere around 20% of the above total, which amounts to some 0.58 million. With investment costs per bed per year (including land, building, equipment, support system and medical consumables) ranging from Rs 0.7 million to Rs 3.5 million depending upon the nature of specialty, the resource requirements are enormous. **End Summary** Topics: healthcare]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Corporatization-of-healthcare-in-India--The-liberalization-effect/591434 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Market-Driven-Innovations-in-Telecom-Industry/591425 With consequences on the market structure, as a result The current article would deal of competition and the innovative schemes of the players to capture market shares. The GoI’s decision to liberalize the telecom sector in 1994 transformed the entire telecom industry, with many private companies foraying into the sector. With the consequent grant of licenses for providing cellular services, there was a surge in the number of cellular services providers which continued till the late 1990’s. By the year 2000, stiff competition between players in the cellular market prompted each player to formulate more novel strategies in order to retain their market share. There are 9 major players in the market. The market is dominated by Airtel and Hutch (now Vodafone) and BSNL over the last 3 yrs, but even for players like BPL, MTNL and Spice the share is growing. There have been various promotional strategies implemented by the major cellular service providers in the Indian cellular market. Promotional Strategies to capture market share: Most of the promotional strategies revolve around capturing the younger generation who formed a major part of the target market. **End Summary** Topics: telecom industry]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Market-Driven-Innovations-in-Telecom-Industry/591425 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Innovation--The-Mantra-for-Revival-During-Recession/591421 A lot has been said and read about the ongoing recession that has is being described as the worst economic recession after the great American depression of the 1930s. The financial gurus the world over are give their own mantras for a revival and predicting the time period this recession will last. Sun Microsystems lately announced laying off 6000 employees; SAP toned down their 2009 forecasts, General Motors tumbled to the lowest stock price since 1942 as the automaker crept closer to bankruptcy, each economic sector announcing the most terrible news and tough years ahead. Some economists have compared it worse than ‘The Great Depression’ . What should IT players do in such a situation? Most businesses think now's the time to ‘cut back and tremble’. Why not see it as an opportunity, the way the creators of some very big brands have? Companies like Microsoft are reinventing and moving fast in the innovation curve. Some time back Bill Gates addressed at the MGB in Atlanta in 2005 where he shared the vision for Digital Home and Surface Computing. Today these products are a reality and aim to redefine our lives and businesses. **End Summary** Topics: recession]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Innovation--The-Mantra-for-Revival-During-Recession/591421 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-education-industry/591417 There is common saying that goes..”The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.” The roots in our country is the system. Being the world’s largest democracy the educated youth of the country has had to pay the price. The price being to forgo their entry into professional colleges, thanks to the quota system. In some states with quotas upto 70% of the seats the youth belonging to the so called upper castes” do not find a place in Government colleges/institutions. This gave rise to the opening up private educational institutions across India. Private Educational Institutions in India could be classified into the following categories: (a) Aided Colleges these are colleges that are privately managed but aided by the government. (b)Unaided colleges these are colleges that are privately managed and also raise their own funds. Professional colleges across India have sprung up in such large numbers making it into an industry of sorts. We are calling this Industry” because of the employment and the revenues that these institutions generate. Private spending on education in India in $US Schooling (tuition fee, tutoring, textbooks, preschool etc. **End Summary** Topics: EDUCATION]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-education-industry/591417 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Layoffs-in-India--Aftermath-of-Recession/591408 We are hoping the Indian industry has the resilience to cope with the problem. Some sectors may feel some jolts, but largely we are hopeful that there won’t be any such layoffs in India” said the Commerce Minister on the 18th Nov 2008. This makes us wonder whether we are aware of reality or are we just running away from it. Owing to the economic slowdown the USA there are many sectors of the Indian industry that were badly hit. Some of the sectors that were hit most include Banking, Infrastructure, IT, Real estate (due to high interest rates and lack of positive sentiments), Automobile (high interest rates and high fuel prices), Power (due to less consumption), Hospitality, Travel and Tourism. With so many sectors hit and hit so badly it is safe to say that many of the companies in these sectors were in the red and also had to close shop in some instances. Job losses in India may not be called layoffs but may be addressed differently. The sector that is most badly hit is the IT sector. Hence the common saying that goes …”WHEN AMERICA SNEEZES THE WORLD CATHES A COLD”…. **End Summary** Topics: layoffs in india]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Layoffs-in-India--Aftermath-of-Recession/591408 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/India-Shining-or-India-setting--/591391 As election is nearing in India, we are flooded with hundreds of India Shining campaigns. These are visuals of India’s journey over the past 60 years with every political party taking credit for anything and everything they can. These campaigns make us believe that we are looking at an India which is an economic and military powerhouse that is striding firmly towards being a superpower of the world. On the economic front, military front, India has come a long way. From fighting drought and famine to now the ….. Chandrayaan India has achieved a lot. The most recent moon mission Chandrayaan has put India on the global space technology map where very few countries figure. A newspaper headline in the UK summed up the launch as Moon Mission takes India’s aspirations right out this world”. One can paint a very rosy picture of India. On the other hand, series of events that have occurred in various parts of the country, in past six months, speak otherwise. These events compel us, the average Indian, to stop and ponder on the direction we want India to take. A couple of months ago India Inc. **End Summary** Topics: marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/India-Shining-or-India-setting--/591391 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/US-Presidential-Election--Outcome-for-India/591385 The American presidential elections attract a great deal of media attention in India compared to any other election in the world. This can be attributed to a couple of reasons. American democracy is second only to India, and the US has a large Indian American population (it has touched a whopping 2 million mark as per the 2000 census). This year’s presidential election is seeing more effort to woo the Indian American community, and several issues related to India have been discussed by both the presidential candidates (unlike in past Presidential elections). This can also be attributed in part to the growing stature of India in the world stage, and India’s increasingly close bilateral relations with US, particularly after the historic Indo-US nuclear deal. The Indian American voter also has become very conscious of the situation back home in India. There are a few demands as a voter from this segment too. Indian American voter want to see an immigration reform, a geostrategic partnership between the two countries and a viable plan by the United States to help India tackle its public health issues including AIDS. **End Summary** Topics: US Presidential Election]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/US-Presidential-Election--Outcome-for-India/591385 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Healthcare-sector-in-India/591368 Sampling Research Pvt. Ltd. had conducted a research study on healthcare in India and the perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical sector. This study was done by conducting in depth interviews of highly placed people (ministers/ directors/ beneficiaries/ NGOs) across all strata of the healthcare system. Not surprisingly most of the respondents rated healthcare in India at an average of a dismal 4 points on a scale of 1-10 (where 1 is lowest and 10 is highest). Many factors contribute to this sorry state of affairs. Those include: Providing satisfactory healthcare needs of 1.2 billion people is not an easy task for any administration. There is a major divide between the rich and the poor in the country. Of late because of the many private hospitals that are equipped with the best infrastructure the urban rich get proper treatment and facilities. But unfortunately India is mostly rural than urban. Even the rural rich have to travel miles to avail these facilities. Medical professionals are concentrated in urban areas with no government policies to encourage doctors to go to rural areas. Some efforts are on by some state governments to force doctors to work in rural areas. **End Summary** Topics: healthcare]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Healthcare-sector-in-India/591368 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-financial-market-crisis--Ripple-on-Indian-Economy/591361 Powerful financial institutions going down one after another in the world’s most powerful and economically strong country The United States of America”. How did all this happen? Did it all come down without any warning? Can this happen to India’s financial institutions ever? What will be the effect of the ongoing financial crisis in India? These are some of the questions that need to be answered for the common man. This crisis was started with what is called the sub-prime” crisis. This happens when the sub-prime borrowers that are the borrowers with a poor credit history start defaulting. The sub-prime borrowers have a poor track record of repaying loans. In many cases it is the poor and young those form the sub-prime borrowers. There was a real estate boom in the USA from the year 1997. This encouraged banks to give loans to almost everybody, the prime and sub-prime borrowers. Also the government encouraged banks to give loans to the poor and the young in a bid to help them. Because of the real estate boom the prices of houses more than doubled during this period. Hence banks also found it safe to give loans against these houses (mortgaged loans). **End Summary** Topics: financial crisis]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-financial-market-crisis--Ripple-on-Indian-Economy/591361 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-fate-of-OUTSOURCING-------/591347 Taking a tough stand against outsourcing, the presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama said that the choice is between giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas or give benefit to those corporations that keep jobs domestically. This statement by the presidential candidate created a hue and cry in the BPO industry in India and also managed to grab the headlines of our daily newspapers. The reason for that is the amount BPOs contribute to the economy and to the society is considerable. Lakhs of jobs have been created in India thanks to the BPO industry. For FY07, the total IT industry (including domestic segment and hardware) was $48 billion. Of this, the total revenue from software and services (exports) was $31.3 billion and ITeS-BPO revenue was $9.5 billion for FY07. Nasscom said, out of the estimated $31 billion from IT services, $23.1 billion came from exports, with the domestic market contributing the balance. **End Summary** Topics: Outsourcing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Visit us at www.samplingresearch.com Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-fate-of-OUTSOURCING-------/591347