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Management Report
Published: January 2009
Pages: 18
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Research from: Ovum Research & Consultancy
Sector: Mobile Strategies

The rosy view of the UK project services and application-led outsourcing market in 2007 has been overshadowed in 2008 by the macroeconomic slowdown. Constrained capital expenditure is driving a cost-cutting agenda that will see slower growth to 2012.

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Executive summary
In a nutshell
Recommendations
Plan for a long economic downturn
Re-prioritise price competitiveness
Focus on cost take-out
Exploit counter-cyclical opportunities
Deepen vertical expertise
Review M&A strategy
Scope
Examining the state of the UK market
Demand-side trends
Project services and ALO feel the pinch
More trouble ahead
Projects are early casualties
Application-led outsourcing slower to suffer
‘More for less’ becomes ‘even more for less’
Sourcing strategies governed by complexity and cost
Financial services and retail take the brunt
Public sector budgets under pressure
Supply-side trends
Vendors feel the slowdown
Smaller business ERP market remains robust
Skill shortage eases at the bottom, toughens at the top
Global delivery model ascends
Testing gets smarter
Hype over SOA subsides
IT and telco services converge further
Consulting and outsourcing more closely co-ordinated
Process improvement realised through innovation
Verticalisation becomes more widespread
Applications services evolve
Rebalancing occurs towards applications services
Market forecasts: project services
Market composition
Economic turmoil takes its toll in 2008
Looking forward: challenging conditions
Market forecasts: ALO
Price pressure
Market definitions
Project services
Application-led outsourcing (ALO)




List of Tables
Table 1: UK project services market size (£ billion) and growth (%)
Table 2: UK project services market size by service sub-line (£ billion)
Table 3: UK project services market growth (%) by service sub-line
Table 4: Table 4 UK application-led outsourcing (ALO) market size (£ billion) and growth (%)






List of Figures
Figure 1: UK GDP growth projected to 2009
Figure 2: UK project services market size by sector and overall growth
Figure 3: UK project services market size by service sub-line
Figure 4: UK application-led outsourcing (ALO) market size and growth

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