A Seductive Idea ; Could China and India become the new IT partners? Two Gartner analysts seem to think so.

Business Today, October, 2007 by R. Sridharan

IT AND THE EAST

James M. Popkin & Partha Iyengar

Harvard Business School Press

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Chindia--that is, China and India--as a phenomenon is some years old by now. A number of authors, including Jairam Ramesh and BusinessWeek's Peter Engardio, have written about the economic rise of the two countries and how their growing importance in the global marketplace could shift the balance of economic power to the East. China is, of course, the global manufacturing powerhouse, while India is the new star on the it (outsourcing) firmament. Variously, writers have talked about how China could end up adding it to its formidable portfolio of exports, and India, manufactured goods. But it is to Popkin and Iyengar's credit that for the first...

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