Businessworld's BPO Status Report
Businessworld magazine did a comprehensive cover story on the BPO industry in its issue dated August 04, 2003.
The article covered, among other aspects, statistics on the industry's size, winners & losers, and the sectors which held the most promise.
Some extracts:
"As on 31 March 2003, the sector employed 171,000 professionals. It has $1 billion invested in it, creating about 100,000 smart cubicles in 7.5 million sq. ft of space. And it generated revenues of $2.3 billion in 2002-03."
"The Indian BPO story is replete with such successful examples--and also with abject failures. Around the time OfficeTiger was crafting its success in Chennai, another Chennai-based company, Brigade, was busy writing its own epitaph.
Brigade made a series of errors. Soon after it got its first $50-million infusion of capital from General Atlantic Partners, Brigade went on a mad spending spree. By 2001, it was burning cash at