Deanna Horwitz Business 624 September 15, 2011 Porter’s Diamond of National Advantage and How it Decribes the Success of the Indian Software Industry In the article “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” Michael Porter describes a diamond shaped relationship of forces that define a country’s potential for being competitive in a specified industry. The four points on the diamond representing the different forces are: factor conditions; demand conditions; firm strategy, structure and rivalry; and related and supporting industries. According to Porter, the four points apply pressure to each other resulting in a national …show more content…
The technology educational system in India is superb and continues to supply the software development industry with almost limitless talent. The relationship between the points on the diamond is to apply pressure in each connecting point. So, each point on the diamond is depending on pressure from the other points. For example, factor disadvantages will not lead firms to innovate unless there is sufficient rivalry. The diamond is also a reinforcing system. A high level of rivalry often leads to the formation of unique specialized factors. The Indian software industry developed standards for programming that allowed programmers to write software independent of their familiarity with the hardware. Porter defines governments role in the model to encourage companies to raise their performance by enforcing strict product standards. Many of the Indian software companies have achieved quality standards such as ISO 9000 and CMM certification, both international standards. The government should also, according to him, stimulate early demand for advanced products and stimulate local rivalry by limiting direct cooperation and enforcing anti-trust regulations. The Indian government followed these steps of encouraging demand for software at a crucial point in the infancy of software development and has increased pressure on software pirating. The major threats to the Indian Software Industry are
The intensity of rivalry, which is the most obvious of the five forces in an industry, helps determine the extent to which the value created by an industry will be dissipated through head-to-head competition. The most valuable contribution of Porter's “five forces” framework in this issue may be its suggestion that rivalry, while important, is only one of several forces that determine industry attractiveness.
Also, companies that outsource will gain access to capabilities and expertise of the countries they outsource to. The people of India grow up in a different society and have a different outlook on life. This would give them a different approach to problems in software, which can make certain problems seem simple. Furthermore, the competencies developed over in India can also be utilized by companies. Based on an economic model from Adam Smith,
In addition, the internationalisation is the strategy to occupy the foreign market step by step. Also, the porter’s competitive advantages theory is to analysis the strategies of global business. They could divide to three strategies: over cost leading, diversity, and market focus strategy (Passemard& Calantone, 2000). The cost leading strategy focus on establish efficient scale production facility and minimize the research and advertising cost. The diversity strategy focus on introduce some unique product in whole industry. But, this strategy will with a high cost price. The focus strategy is attack of a particular customer group or specialist regional market, its purpose to design the service for a particular target. Consequently, the companies need to consider the internal and external factor condition, such as: factor condition, demand condition, related and supporting industries condition, and firm strategy and rivalry. They are called diamond system. This dynamic system gives the company a standard to measure theirs advantage and disadvantage before they enter foreign market. Moreover, the specific advantage in Internationalisation of Production is give companies a new choose for exhausted market (Strange,S. 1992). In an international environment, the companies will face more uncertain and unequal condition than home market, therefore the companies need keep the attention of more factors:
3. What qualities enabled India to take center stage when the looming Y2K scenario generated unprecedented demand for programmers? What can other nations learn from India’s success in this realm? What are India’s greatest vulnerabilities?
What are the secrets of India’s success in information technology? By using Porter’s Diamond Model, this article tries to answer that question. Based on the analysis, it seems the only determinant in the Porter’s Diamond that creates India’s success is Factor Condition (i.e. the Indian intellectual capital and “Indian connection” in Silicon Valley). The supporting determinant outside the diamond is the outsourcing trend in current global competition, which can be considered as the Chance in the Porter’s Model. This could be mean one of these possibilities: either Indian success will not be sustainable or Porter’s model needs revision.
Porters five forces model is a tool that helps a company understand competition in that market. There are five different segments in this model, you have competitive rivalry, bargaining power of customers, bargaining power of supplies, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrains. In the micro processing industry, there are many competitors. The one company that is a true competitor for Intel is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). AMD is the second largest microprocessor supplies and the significant rival to Intel for x86 based microprocessors.
|Answer : The Indian IT industry has been the great success story of India's liberalisation. Starting with an export of around $100 million and |
In his article “The five competitive forces that shape strategy“, Michael Porter (2008) updates and extends his “five forces” framework he first introduced in 1979 and which has influenced the academic and business research for decades. He reaffirms that “THREAT OF ENTRY”, “THE POWER OF SUPPLIERS”, “THE POWER OF BUYERS”, THE THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES”, and “RIVALRY AMONG EXISTING COMPETITORS” are the forces that shape every single industry, and a thorough understanding of such forces help analyze everything from the intensity of competition to the profitability and attractiveness of any industry. The framework has two dimensions; the vertical dimension that connects
“Today, Indian outsourcing is one of the best ways for CIOs to cut application development and maintenance costs, and deal effectively with the peaks and valleys of software demands.” (Yeo). Outsourcing to India is still focused primarily on highly technological aspects, but is not limited there. They are known for creative development in the pharmaceutical field, and have recently developed an unsurpassed medication for adult ADHD. Their superior IT assistance is not limited to companies, they offer many websites for individuals seeking help with programming. In mid 2007, U.S. outsourcing to India reached $4.9 billion. Although technologically advanced, they still lag in economic prosperity and therefore still don’t expect the type of compensation that Americans do. “They
“Porter’s five forces”: Introduction. “Porter’s five forces” is widely applied in today’s business world. Harvard Professor Michael E. Porter’s first HBR article “How competitive forces shape strategy” was published in 1979. It became revolutionary in the field of strategy. Porter’s subsequent work has brought big changes to the study of competitive strategy for corporations, regions, and nations. With assistance from his colleagues from Harvard Business School, Porter continues to update and extend his classic work, providing practical guidance for
According to Michael Porter, “Every industry has an underlying structure, or a set of fundamental economic and technical characteristics, that give rise to these competitive forces” (Porter 1998:23). The forces mentioned above are: industry rivalry, threat of new entrants, threat of substitute products, bargaining power of suppliers and bargaining power of buyers. Additionally, Porter mentioned that: “Knowledge of these underlying sources of competitive pressure provides the groundwork for a strategic agenda or action” (Porter 1998:22).
My interest towards mathematics made me to take Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as the main subjects during my intermediate (10+2). After obtaining 94% marks in Intermediate and securing a top 6% rank in engineering entrance test, I opted for Computer Science Engineering in JNTU College of Engineering. Immediately after my Bachelor’s degree, I secured the job in Wipro Technologies and this offered me numerous opportunities to learn about the technical aspects of Software industry.
Exploiting its understanding of variable talent pool in India and using them effectively for providing world class software solutions
Any country should use porter diamond theory of national advantage. It's designed to help understand the competitive advantage nations. It suggests that the national home base of any organizations are playing a supportive role in shaping the size or scoop to which it is likely to achieve advantage on a global scale. This home base provides basic factors, which support organizations from building advantages in international competition. Porter classifies four determinants: Factor Condition, Diamond Condition, Relatives & supporting and Structure, strategy & Rivalry. Egypt government acts to catalysts to improve Egypt position in a globally competitive economic environment. They found that they can create new factors such as skilled labor and high technology (Porter M., 1990). Porter's diamond model suggests threat there are inherent reasons why some nations are more competitive than others on an international market. Another factor that influence in competitive advantages such as the policies that put by government. One of the most influencer policies is (FDI) Foreign direct investment
The industry has grown very rapidly in the last decade due to intense competition and was exposed to immense technological advancement possibilities as well. Considering the growth rate and current market state; the telecommunications of Bangladesh has the following implication of Porter’s diamond model, which is further explained below in details: