Tata Consultancy Services
The more complex and challenging global business becomes, the greater the demand for unique and highly specific expertise. Given the accelerating pace of change regarding compliance, cost reductions and efficiency strategies, lean manufacturing and process improvement, many organizations do not have the internal resources to meet these challenges alone. The rapid rise of outsourcing providers is being fueled by these developments, leading to one of the fastest growing consulting and services industries globally (Pandit, 2005). Tata Consultancy Services is one of the leaders in the area of business process management (BPM), business process outsourcing (BPO), information systems development, and the relatively new areas of outsourcing research & development (R&D) (Oshri, van Fenema, Kotlarsky, 2008). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate the macro-environmental opportunities and threats for the company.
Evaluating Tata's Macro Environmental Opportunities and Threats
Tata Consultancy Services was established in 1968 as the main services component of the Tata Group. In 1995, TCS America was launched to seek out BPO and BPM projects throughout the North American markets. Tata Consultancy Services operates today in 42 countries, with offices in 140 cities, and is managed primarily on a geographic basis. The four geographic divisions in place today include the Americas, Europe, India and rest of word or other countries. Tata has also found that defining their most dominant industry segments as verticals is very effective. As a result, they operate verticals in banking, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, retail and distribution, and telecom (Sharma, Siddiqui, Sharma, Singh, Kumar, Kaushal, Banerjee, 2007). Over the last two decades Tata has emerged as a leader in the areas of consulting, IT...
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