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January - 2011 - issue > Technology
Nonlinearity Initiatives in Software Testing Services Business
Ajikumar TN
On the other hand, Services organizations had been struggling with ‘Reverse Box mentality’ for quite some time. This means they were only getting paid for the services they deliver and not getting paid for tools and IPs they deliver along. Testing Services organizations were also not different. Over the last few years, there are attempts from top and senior leaders in the industry to reverse the trend. The move is to start charging clients separately for the IPs and this became a new revenue stream as well. This method also resulted in getting more revenue from the same set of employees and thus become part of what is known as nonlinear initiatives.
Nonlinearity in a Services organization can be defined as ‘achieving substantial improvements in Gross Margin per employee’. Four things are important here.
l We are discussing about Services organizations
l Nonlinearity is defined in terms of Gross Margin (GM) which can be measured at project, account or business unit level.
l Rate of Gross Margin is defined as GM per employee. Nonlinearity is all about improving this ratio.
l ‘Substantial’ is relative to the organization. The target has to be more than the long term average of Gross Margin and also we should aim for an improvement we get as a result of usual systemic improvements.
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