Information technology companies would do well to outsource business processes to Indianapolis, a new KPMG report says.
The accounting and consulting firm included only one other U.S. city, Boise, Idaho, on an international list of 31 places where companies are likely to get the best combination of talent and low costâ??and are largely undiscovered as potential hot spots.
Interestingly, the report says the Indianapolis area had 64,000 â??underemployedâ?? workers in 2007, nearly a fourth of them with IT skills.
Indianapolis can take advantage of its close proximity to Indiana and Purdue universities as well as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Illinois, it says.
Indianapolis is centrally located and has Internet II, one of only eight major fiber optic cable spines in the nation. The area also boasts low taxes, good roads, plenty of power and no congestion to speak of, despite a noted lack of mass transit.
Quality of life is good but the crime rate is â??quite high.â?? Another downer: â??The city has a history of disruptions on account of flood and tornadoes.â??
Where to locate these kinds of jobs? Purdue has a new research park near the airport, the report suggests.
KPMG has spoken. What are your thoughts?
The accounting and consulting firm included only one other U.S. city, Boise, Idaho, on an international list of 31 places where companies are likely to get the best combination of talent and low costâ??and are largely undiscovered as potential hot spots.
Interestingly, the report says the Indianapolis area had 64,000 â??underemployedâ?? workers in 2007, nearly a fourth of them with IT skills.
Indianapolis can take advantage of its close proximity to Indiana and Purdue universities as well as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Illinois, it says.
Indianapolis is centrally located and has Internet II, one of only eight major fiber optic cable spines in the nation. The area also boasts low taxes, good roads, plenty of power and no congestion to speak of, despite a noted lack of mass transit.
Quality of life is good but the crime rate is â??quite high.â?? Another downer: â??The city has a history of disruptions on account of flood and tornadoes.â??
Where to locate these kinds of jobs? Purdue has a new research park near the airport, the report suggests.
KPMG has spoken. What are your thoughts?
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Norm, if you don't know the skill set, thats ok, I am just curious.
As far as crime, our rate is much lower than many communities our size. Makes you wonder what stats they looked at.
http://www.kpmg.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Exploring-global-frontiers.pdf
But.....good roads? Where did that come from?
When it comes to I.T. - Indianapolis is it's own worst enemy. People here want way too much money to do what hundreds of thousands of other people around the country can already do - for less. Instead of settling for less, I.T. companies here watch outside business walk away and pursue lower bids. To top this off, the businesses that go elsewhere get better quality work when all is said and done.
With Silicon Valley prices and the a fraction of the talent, what company with a good tech officer would be dumb enough to outsource here?
This city is full of average joes and very few skilled professionals.
A few other obvious issues that plague this state from being on the tech radar are: bogus and random blue laws, poor work ethic, the fact we have a winter probably deters a lot of top talent, and the fact that most tech firms here don't last but a couple years at most.