{"id":118,"date":"2009-11-18T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyproschool.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:14:03","slug":"uk-research-company-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivyproschool.com\/blog\/uk-research-company-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCSEARCH, A UK-BASED RESEARCH SERVICES COMPANY STUDY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another study on Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) sector shows a huge supply gap that threatens to cripple its growth. Rocsearch, a UK-based research services company, has gathered evidence suggesting that the KPO market may just about reach a size of $5 billion by 2010, manned by 100,000 people instead of projections of a $12 billion market supported by 250,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>This accentuates Nasscom&#8217;s projections of a shortfall of 500,000 workers in ITES and BPO sectors by 2010. Assuming an average revenue per person of $55,000 over the next four years, 100,000 knowledge workers point to a $5 billion market. This size, though based on a CAGR of 32%, is still 60% less than the $12 billion potential projected by big KPOs, like Evalueserve, last year.Rocsearch COO, Ashish Sinha says the sector is restricted by low employability despite high graduate turnout, and competing demand from other sectors as jobs grow faster than the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>For example, all the 2,000-odd IIM and top 10 B-School graduates are employable, while less than half the 84,000 graduates from Tier-II B-Schools would make the grade. The study sees only 500,000 of the over 3 million workers added to the labour pool in 2005 as employable in global firms and of these, just 2 in every 100 are likely to opt for work in knowledge space.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, it is envisaged that KPO has a high potential as it is not restricted only to Information Technology (IT) or Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) sectors, and includes other sectors like Intellectual Property related services, Business Research and Analytics, Legal Processes Outsourcing, Web Development Application, CAD\/CAM, Finance and Accountants Management and Consultancy, Legal Research, Clinical Research, Publishing, Market Research (Market research KPO), etc.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpoexperts.com\">www.kpoexperts.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another study on Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) sector shows a huge supply gap that threatens to cripple its growth. Rocsearch, a UK-based research services company, has gathered evidence suggesting that the KPO market may just about reach a size of $5 billion by 2010, manned by 100,000 people instead of projections of a $12 billion market supported by 250,000 employees. This accentuates Nasscom&#8217;s projections of a shortfall of 500,000 workers in ITES and BPO sectors by 2010. Assuming an average revenue per person of $55,000 over the next four years, 100,000 knowledge workers point to a $5 billion market. This size, though based on a CAGR of 32%, is still 60% less than the $12 billion potential projected by big KPOs, like Evalueserve, last year.Rocsearch COO, Ashish Sinha says the sector is restricted by low employability despite high graduate turnout, and competing demand from other sectors as jobs grow faster than the workforce. For example, all the 2,000-odd IIM and top 10 B-School graduates are employable, while less than half the 84,000 graduates from Tier-II B-Schools would make the grade. The study sees only 500,000 of the over 3 million workers added to the labour pool in 2005 as employable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-analytics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KPO Sector Growth Faces Major Talent Shortage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore Rocsearch&#039;s findings on the KPO sector&#039;s growth hurdles, with projected workforce gaps threatening a $12 billion market potential.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ivyproschool.com\/blog\/uk-research-company-case-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KPO Sector Growth Faces Major Talent Shortage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Explore Rocsearch&#039;s findings on the KPO sector&#039;s growth hurdles, with projected workforce gaps threatening a $12 billion market potential.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ivyproschool.com\/blog\/uk-research-company-case-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"R vs Python: Which Analytics Tool Should You Choose for Data Science?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-11-18T08:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-02T11:14:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Spam Prats\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Spam Prats\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Spam Prats\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/01d3469a45250acdf099bb1467ef3498\"},\"headline\":\"ROCSEARCH, A UK-BASED RESEARCH SERVICES COMPANY STUDY\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-11-18T08:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-02T11:14:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Data Analytics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/\",\"name\":\"KPO Sector Growth Faces Major Talent Shortage\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-11-18T08:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-02T11:14:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/01d3469a45250acdf099bb1467ef3498\"},\"description\":\"Explore Rocsearch's findings on the KPO sector's growth hurdles, with projected workforce gaps threatening a $12 billion market potential.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/uk-research-company-case-study\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ROCSEARCH, A UK-BASED RESEARCH SERVICES COMPANY STUDY\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ivyproschool.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ivy Professional School | Official Blog\",\"description\":\"Confused between R and Python for your data science journey? 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