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Necessary Political Will Available to Conclude the Doha Round By 2010

New Delhi Meeting Timely and Important for Successful Doha Conclusion

Significant political will exists among WTO negotiators to conclude the eight-year-old Doha Development Agenda (DDA) of the World Trade Organisation by end 2010, according to Mr. Simon Crean, Minster of Trade, Australia. He said the informal WTO Ministerial meeting, scheduled for 3 and 4 September in New Delhi is timely, as it takes place just before the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh and it also reflects the reinforced commitment of India to conclude the Round.

Mr. Nelson Fernandez, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uruguay expressed the need for countries to continue to resist protectionist tendencies. He said the WTO member countries must continue to engage and not allow the negotiations to collapse. He also felt the New Delhi Ministerial meeting was timely and important for a successful Doha conclusion.

Mr. Crean and Mr. Fernandez were speaking at the session on ‘WTO Negotiations: What do we need to conclude the Doha deal?’ organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today. Mr. Crean said the new found commitment of WTO member countries to conclude the deal is due to the realisation that trade can provide significant stimulus to sagging economies. “Historically world trade has grown three times faster than the world output and that multiple has increased whenever trade agreements are concluded”, he added.

A successful conclusion of the Round will require some give and take from all sides. Negotiations on NAMA or industrial goods, “can not be concluded until we have some accommodation by India on Sectorals”, said Mr. Crean. He said several sectors have been identified in the negotiations and the NAMA framework requires the commitment by members to participate in sectoral negotiations in good faith, he added.

He expressed the need to supplement multilateral negotiations with bilateral and regional negotiations at WTO. On the bilateral front, he identified, energy and energy security; food and food security, education as the potential areas of cooperation between India and Australia. He said the feasibility study of India – Australia FTA is expected to be released next month. Mr. Crean also mooted the idea of having a larger East Asian economic grouping comprising of ASEAN and six countries of India, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and South Korea.

Earlier, Mr. Dhruv M Sawhney, Past President, CII and Chairman & Managing Director, Triveni Engineering & Industries Limited, said the Indian industry fully supports government’s endeavour to successfully conclude the Doha Round. He also expressed the need for WTO members to show more ambition in Services negotiations, which account for 70% of World GDP. He said India is not import resistant and added that India’s trade deficit of US$ 87 billion, supports this claim.

New Delhi

2^nd September 2009

Neelam Joshi

Media Desk

Confederation of Indian Industry

23, Institutional Area

Lodi Road

New Delhi – 110 003

Mobile: 9810882431

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The current economic climate calls for a new approach to outsourcing relationships      

Study commissioned by Logica and the London School of Economics (LSE)

-          identifies the need for  behavioral and contractual step changes in outsourcing relationships that move towards a shared risk and reward approach

-          stresses  the importance of collaborative leadership to enable innovation and business value add

-          warns companies of failure to build their business for the future if the focus is solely on cost cutting/cost efficiency measures

-          identifies ‘collaborative innovation’ as the new wave in outsourcing

02 September, 2009: Logica, a leading IT and business services provider, today announced the findings of an extensive study conducted in partnership with LSE’s Outsourcing Unit  on outsourcing relationships entitled ‘Step change – Collaborating to Innovate’. The study calls for a sustainable change in the way businesses interact with the external services market to enable them to move their relationships from contract administration and outsourcing management to a new phase of collaborative leadership. The paper underlines the importance of new forms of contracting – contracts that share risk and reward in ways that incent innovation, collaboration and high performance to achieve common goals – as the key to success. When collaborative innovation plays a key role in outsourcing relationships, businesses truly leverage IT as a competitive advantage.

The paper draws its key findings from in-depth interactions with businesses across a spectrum of industries including companies such as Michelin, Spring Global Mail, Heathrow Terminal 5,(BAA), KPN and StatoilHydro among others.  The paper classifies outsourcing relationships into four phases – contract administration, contract management, supplier management and collaborative innovation. Businesses in the fourth phase of collaborative innovation are positioned best to ride out the economic recession with the ability to build their businesses for the future.

Companies today expect more from their partners and suppliers. As Piet Koetsier, Manager, Business Process Outsourcing at KPN says “A pro-active partner is aligned in thinking with you and comes up with new ideas and innovation. They think for me.” The paper sets examples of how relationships are changing and the impact collaborative relationships have on performance.

Commenting on the importance of collaborative innovation, Kate Hanaghan, senior analyst, Bathwick group*, says, “Innovation has to be a joint effort as true innovation demands a proactive, timely and effective service to customers. There need to be processes in place that bring suppliers and customer teams together. Simply assuming or hoping that this will happen of its own accord is not enough. Collaborative leadership that leads to innovation has to be a conscious effort. This research paper will help guide companies and suppliers think of different ways to bring innovation to the forefront.”

The change in expectations from partner/supplier relationships is clearly outlined by Pascal Zammit, in 2008 Michelin’s head of business solutions, “We want our suppliers to jointly create a ‘polar star’ for us.” Michelin embarked on a CRM project in the fleet management area. Logica was part of the co-management of the project showcasing a relatively new way of working with collaborative leadership. Michelin showed leadership in its sourcing strategy by deciding on multiple vendors but experimented with the co-managed route with each of its partners for the implementation of the project.  The case study clearly outlines how Michelin used collaborative leadership with its partners to ensure success of the project, highlighting a robust organisation and governance structure.

The paper concludes with four fundamental shapers and components for effective collaborative innovation – Leading, Contracting, Organising and Behaving. Of these, Leadership is primary and plays a vital role in shaping the environment to facilitate right contracting, organising and behaving.

Abhay Gupte, CEO, Logica India, says “While the debate rages around innovation, outsourcing and collaboration, this paper helps businesses decide the best way forward for them. It’s becoming increasingly crucial for organisations to work together, combining skill sets and sharing risks in order to stay competitive, thrive and build robust innovative businesses of the future. We do hope that this paper will motivate businesses to relook at the components that shape their outsourcing relationships.”

Professor Leslie Willcocks, Director of the Outsourcing Unit, LSE and lead author of the paper, said, “The findings of this paper are a culmination of our new research and further analysis of our  database representing 17 years of combined research into over 1600 organisations. In the last four years we have seen an increasing number of mature outsourcing relationships capable of achieving technological, business process and even strategic innovations. Moreover the economic environment forces people to work together and we are seeing some organisations with the right type of leadership, contracting relationship, teaming and behaviours, achieving with their suppliers a positive and lasting impact on performance. Collaborative innovation is outsourcing’s new wave.”

To download the full white paper, visit: http://www.logica.com/outsourcingenterprise. To view a video of the authors explaining the findings of the paper, please visit < insert Logica TV>

* The Bathwick Group, founded in 1997, researches how businesses actually buy and apply IT to their business, how they innovate using technology, and how IT is supporting changes in market and organisational models.

Notes to Editors

The Outsourcing Enterprise series
This research paper is the fifth to be released as part of The Outsourcing Enterprise series of white papers targeted at CEOs that draw on a series of interrelated research studies conducted by Professor Leslie Willcocks and his co-authors – all leading authors on outsourcing. The findings are sourced from over 1600 organisations located throughout Europe, the USA and Asia along with ongoing, unpublished research. The Outsourcing Enterprise series, sponsored by Logica, provides leading edge thinking from the perspective of the Chief Executive and suggests the nature of the involvement the CEO should have, as well as those issues which should be considered in order to ensure the success of an IT or business process outsourcing decision. The four previous white papers in this series are:

1.       “ Building core retained capabilities”, published November 2007

2.       “The CEO role in delivering strategic advantage”, published July 2005

3.       “The power of relationships”, published November 2005. 

4.       “The CEO guide to selecting effective suppliers”, published September 2006

These papers can be viewed on www.logica.com/outsourcingenterprise along with the special edition ‘Outsourcing in Difficult times’ released in April, 2009

About the authors

Professor Leslie Willcocks
Leslie Willcocks has an international reputation for his research and advisory work on outsourcing, information and communications technologies and organisational change. He is Professor of Technology Work and Globalisation and Head of the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science UK. He is also Associate Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford, Visiting Professor at Erasmus and Melbourne Universities, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology.

Andrew S. Craig
Andrew S. Craig heads the IT leadership and governance stream of Carig Ltd and is also a director of Board Coaching Ltd. In addition to coaching he teaches at Ashridge and Warwick business schools on leadership and is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the LSE. Current assignments include coaching the CEO of a FTSE-250 leisure company and working with the Board. He is also working with individuals and teams in the Defence Procurement Agency, Balfour Beatty, HSBC and finance and fund management companies.

About Logica

Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services.  Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential – enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk.  It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.

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Delhi talks to revive Doha negotiations

Industry keen to see greater market access in advanced countries

CII strongly welcomes the initiative and compliments Commerce and Industry Minister to hold an informal Ministerial meeting in Delhi to take forward the stalled WTO negotiations. Given the collapse of the Doha Round talks after July 2008, these meetings could play a major role in bringing the negotiations back on track. “The Indian side is sending out a strong signal that it is willing to engage”, said Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII. Indian industry has always been supportive of an early conclusion of the Doha Development Round and CII is keen to see real market access provided to developing countries and LDCs by the advanced countries.

CII is of the view that a successful Doha deal must fully uphold the development mandate of the 2001 Doha declaration. The principles of ‘less that full reciprocity’ and ‘special and differential treatment’ for developing countries and LDCs must be an integral part of any final agreement. To this end, CII proposes to set a meaningful industry agenda on multilateral talks. CII has also held consultations with its counterpart organizations across the world to forge a consensus on various issues that are on the table.

CII expects, the Delhi Ministerial, to provide a platform for different interest groups to come together. “This would make the meetings inclusive rather than exclusive”, said Mr. Banerjee. The presence of a broad spectrum of WTO members not only from the G-20 countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and China but also from major trading blocs such as the US, EU, Canada and Australia will help forge partnerships during the course of the meetings. It will be important for India to forge partnerships with countries that have complementary trading interests. In particular, India’s interest in reducing non-tariff barriers and getting greater market access in the services sector must be highlighted.

“A successful conclusion of the Doha talks could lead to significant gains for the global economy at a time when it is just emerging from a severe recession”, said Mr. Banerjee. While many countries had resorted to protectionist measures in the aftermath of the recession, the Doha talks will help global leaders to focus on removing barriers to trade. Any resultant upswing in global trade whose gains are well distributed across countries will also yield political dividends, said Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.

New Delhi

2^nd September, 2009

Neelam Joshi

Media Desk

Confederation of Indian Industry

23, Institutional Area

Lodi Road

New Delhi – 110 003

Mobile: 9810882431

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