IT And the East: How China And India Are Altering the Future of Technology And Innovation (Gartner)
The center of gravity in the technology world has shifted east. Today, China and India are producing some the world’s best-trained computer science and electrical engineering graduates. In each country, the consumer class and the domestic market for technology have ballooned. Western high-tech firms are increasingly sourcing their products’ assembly, and the innovation that drives those products, from China and India. Meanwhile, indigenous Chinese and Indian companies are creating intellectual property and innovations that will directly challenge those same Western companies.InIT and the East, James M. Popkin and Partha Iyengar examine the vital questions these developments raise:Can Western firms compete in Asian markets while protecting key intellectual property?What’s the long term impact of high-tech outsourcing?How will innovation be managed in the future?Will the innovation engine inexorably shift east? What would such a shift mean for Western countries currently driving innovation?The authors also discuss for emerging alliances between Chinese and Indian technology companies in specific market such as IT services, textile, pharmaceuticals, and automotive components. These alliances have inspired the idea of “Chindia”— a combined China and India competing globally. Popkin and Iyengar present a compelling Chindia  as a means to explain how these two great countries might soon reassert their combines influences on the international stage. And they explore the major implications of this development for Western businesses as wide ranging as IBM, Motorola, Accenture, Sun Microsystems, and Google.featuring extensive interviews with high-level executives, government officials, and academics from around the world,IT and the Eastis the first book to articulate the challenges that new business scenarios and capabilities in China and India pose for Western technology firms.