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Title: Major Indian ICT firms and their approaches towards achieving quality
Authors: Dutta, Dilip
Sekhar, Anna
Economics
Issue Date: Jul-2004
Publisher: Department of Economics
Series/Report no.: 2004-6
Abstract: Of the three basic theories of innovation: the entrepreneur theory, the technology-economics theory and the strategic theory, the third one seems to be highly appropriate for the analysis of recent growth of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in many developing countries including India. The central measure for achieving quality by the various major Indian ICT firms is widely agreed to have been the adoption of Six Sigma Methodology and various other approaches like Total Quality Management (TQM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), etc. It is apparent that the main objective of the firms chosen has been to increase the pace of innovation activities, irrespective of their different areas of product specialisation. Its success also depends largely on the overall improvement in infrastructure, besides active market interaction. To enable both the above, a brief highlight on the establishment of interaction and learning sites (ILSs) in every regional State in India comes to the foreground. The chapter concludes with a mention of the elements observed to be missing among the firms under consideration, and, thereby, delineating the scope for their further improvement.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7644
ISBN: 1 86487 668 9
ISSN: 1446-3806
Department/Unit/Centre: Economics
Appears in Collections:Working Papers - Economics

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