National Software Strategy for Scotland : The Strategic Options

Vision, Development Path and Strategic Programmes

The vision of being a significant, high value adding, innovative, globally networked and internationally recognised software region can only be achieved through time. The key thrusts of a strategy to achieve this are:

• infrastructure: creating the necessary and sufficient conditions for the industry to realise the vision;
• internationalisation: fully engaging in the global scene;
• productisation: focusing more on products and less on services to create a higher value-added industry; and
• innovation: an innovative regional capability within an industry that demands innovation.

We illustrate these strategic themes in the figure below:

Figure 3.8: Strategic Thrusts

A logical order for these thrusts - rather than a pure sequence - leads to the development routemap below:

Figure 3.9: A Development Routemap

In the next section, we use this development map to set a way forward for the Scottish Software industry.