Tolaha
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What advantage does India IT company have? Low price, project management, language! As a computer programmer worked in China 10 years, I can tell you all these factors don't work in Chinese market.
Low price - Chinese IT programmer's salary was already lower than indians 10 years ago. Today, it would be even more lower because their income didn't increase much in this 10 years.
Project management - Well, that is where shocking indians, chinese generally think india companies have terrible project managment. Why? 1. Chinese customers change their demand quite offten (sometime it may be different from day 1 to day 2), so you have to keep flexibility in your plan; 2, even your clients change their damand, they still expect you to catch up with teh schedule, the indian companies have no experience how to handle it.
Language/culture-If an american could not understand the indian's english, do you think the chinese would love to hear that? Further, cultural difference is the biggiest problem for indians to win a contract. As one of my pre-colleagle said: "they are just too terrible" after he co-worked with an india IT company on his banking systems. In one work, you have to spend your time to study Chinese market.
Nice explanation but not much of facts really!
Infosys has worked in numerous non-English speaking countries and in a wide variety of cultures. And mind you, successfully as well.
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