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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business Review

The country has over 350 million smart phones and this number is growing 25% CAGR. The second factor is India’s vast number of consumers and its large, highly educated, and young talent base. The education sector similarly suffers from too few teachers and universities to cater to too many people.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace.