`We are not going to take leaps`

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Sanjay K Pillai New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 26 2013 | 2:14 AM IST

What is your view of the IT outsourcing space today? Almost all leading tier I companies in India report that growth is booming.

We do think that things are looking up. The good news is that it is not restricted to just one sector.

It is fairly broad based, which means basically that customers in different segments are looking up in terms of their outlook towards doing more work in the coming three to nine months. By the same token, it is across different services and across a broad set of service lines that we cover.

How long do you you think this will this last?

It is difficult to say how long this will last. There are no indicators to say that this bull run will go away immediately after the timeframe (nine months).

The trend does seem to be positive. There was a fair amount of pending projects and a lot of customers are intending to take advantage of the new momentum that is being generated. Also, much of the uncertainty has died down after Bush was elected.

What have companies like Wipro done right over the last eight quarters that are being translated into the kind of growth numbers that we see today?

Clearly, a combination of

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