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Offshoring surviving the recession just fine
in The CIO Weblog, on October 12, 2009
So says a fresh report from McKinsey highlighting recent survey results suggesting that leading offshore outsourcing providers have not only benefited from the cost-cutting frenzy that has occupied their traditional client based over the past year, but have also taken the opportunity to improve thei...
Seen that? - Tea Length Wedding Gowns
in White Lace Wedding, on October 9, 2009
... Many economists believe that we have turned the corner on the recession. Whether or not offshoring companies can take advantge of that turnaround quickly may very well depend on whether th...
Contract Length and Reluctance to Outsource
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 27, 2009
...© erix!
Many economists believe that we have turned the corner on the recession. Whether or not offshoring companies can take advantge of that turnaround quickly may very well depend on whether the...
Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
...h as technology investment and long term deals.
Ultimately, it will be interesting to see whether offshoring becomes a leading or lagging indicator of labor market growth over the next two or three y...
Google Chrome OS 最新截图
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-02
...to School: A 9 energy drink shootout
• Samsung Application Store announced, the mobile mall gets a little more crowded
• Apple holding 'rock and roll' themed event, September 9th
• Chall...
Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker Credits P2P With Success
in P2P File Sharing, on September 1, 2009
... big record label behind it."
"Record labels tirelessly argue that illegal file-sharing harms the music industry and artists at the same time, as though the interests of both are one in th...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...ishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featured panelist at Microsoft's CEO summit this week and...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...actly you still need that plump budget, anyway.
To be fair, Hackett discusses both outsourcing and offshoring in their cost control strategy, and both are among the techniques that I would recommend ...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...that is near and dear to protectionist hearts after the H1B program, it is the growing trend toward offshoring. Many of the firms serving that trend are well-staffed with American-educated students.
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50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
... difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relationships have clearly migrated from "non-core" business fun...
Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
... funds its own social safety net, and how that funding creates additional pressure for outsourcing/offshoring.
Unlike most of the industrialized world, the U.S. does not fund the bulk of health care ...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...ance rather than relegate it.
Meanwhile, there is strong political sentiment in the US to reign in offshoring in general, with the somewhat mis-conceived notion that all these overseas shenanigans in...
Obama's Tax Breaks and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 3, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 204085
In a recent article published by the Gerson Lehrman Group, Obama's elimination of tax breaks for outsourcing was analyzed. The article states (and I agree) that there is a large difference between the elimination of tax benefits for a business...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...del Compliance Group LLC describes compliance issues and concerns that arise during outsourcing and offshoring transactions. The article, intended for both outsourcing and compliance managers, highlig...
Using Biotechnology in Cultural Heritage Conservation
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 10, 2009
...oorganisms and insects, the principal agents of biodeterioration of cultural documents, not only harms the people that apply them, they accelerate the materials' deterioration.
She will advocate ...
Britain's Chief Environmental Adviser Says Having Too Many Kids Harms The Environment
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 3, 2009
Sir Jonathon Porritt, Britain's Chief Environmental Adviser, predicts that before long having more than 2 children will be considered socially and environmentally irresponsible.
His remarks were met with varied reactions and opposed vociferously by anti-abortion groups and Conservatives who sai...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley mean audit offshoring?
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
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Offshoring has become more prevalent in recent years. Most firms send part of their operations to cheaper places overseas. But offshoring of audit functions is becoming more popular and, accordin...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Taking advantage of recessionary pressures to restructure IT
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
...ific ideas on procurement and support, lightweight, flexible operations models, and outsourcing and offshoring options.
It's always interesting to me how businesses can suddenly find so much to c...
Is the Downturn Affecting Offshore Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 20, 2008
...n those savings have proved elusive). As such, I think it could be a very, very long time before we offshoring rebounds....
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
The Slowdown's Effect on Indian Hiring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 28, 2008
...ult economic market - particularly if the political costs offset the perceived economic benefits of offshoring.
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Is reverse offshoring a trend?
in Supplychainer, on October 25, 2008
...e; but a recent survey done by Duke University shows that still most of the companies prefer to use offshoring or producing outside U.S..
In fact, instead of back-shoring, the trend which is shaping...
Europe Feels the Crisis
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...proach.
With such an approach, job creation and stability may become a priority - and opponents of offshoring may find new allies in the corporate boardroom.
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High End Jobs Going to India
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...tesy of iStockphoto , Marcus Clackson
Today's San Jose Mercury News reported on the trend of offshoring higher-end tasks, like graphic design, legal work and other "thought process" t...
Citi, Lehman sell India Units
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 9, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Andrew Johnson
Citi has sold its Indian captive to Tata and Lehman has sold its Indian captive to Nomura in two of the largest (and what may be two of the only major) sales of US-owned captives. See this article in InformationWeek.
In the Citi deal, the center...
Value Will Be King
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...st. What is the fertilizer for such new growth? In a word, value.
In recent years, outsourcing and offshoring was all about labor arbitrage - reducing high-cost headcount with offshore headcount at s...
Outsourcing to the Phillipines
in The CIO Weblog, on September 27, 2008
I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place behind India in outsourcing revenues.
This makes perfect sense from a call-center outsourcing per...
Will the Instability in Pakistan Affect the Offshoring Market
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 19, 2008
...ing off of the front pages of the U.S. media, one of the things that worries me most with regard to offshoring is the recent instability of Pakistan and the threat that it poses to offshoring in Ind...
Lehman, Merrill and Offshoring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 15, 2008
...man Brothers and the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America will present huge challenges to offshoring in the near- to mid-term. Aside from the clear consolidation in the markets that this wil...
What Kind of Jobs Cannot be Outsourced?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 8, 2008
...hareholders and offshorers for two reasons: (a) it doesn't create a disincentive to today's offshoring, and (b) it seeks to create new areas of high-wage, high-skill jobs - the jobs that our g...
The Outsourcing Boomerang
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 5, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Niels Quist Petersen In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology article , findings of the Black Book of Outsourcing were discussed. In this year's survey, the Black Book discovered a trend of moving work back to on-shore and near-shore servic...
Duelling analysts
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...and Company and The Hackett Group. McKinsey released a report today entitled "Time to rethink offshoring?" while Hackett put out an e-mail alert this morning with the subject "Back-Of...
Why is Outsourcing the Political Whipping Boy?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2008
...t;ownership society" - corporate management and shareholder groups - have used outsourcing and offshoring to further extract rents from the other stakeholder groups - generally represented by the...
Offshoring decisions as a function of supply chain fuel cost
in Supplychainer, on August 30, 2008
... brought another relevant graph based on his research (taken from SC Digest ) which formulates the offshoring decisions as function of the cost to move the warehousing and logistics infrastructure an...
Mongering... Fear and Otherwise
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 29, 2008
...t ever the spin and whatever your perspective, the position offered by Mr. Obama will not eliminate offshoring, but instead may alter the equation a bit. I seriously doubt that it will reach the tippi...
Do Outsourcing Awards Mean Anything?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 22, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5962793
Any news search that looks at offshoring or outsourcing is bound to come up with a number of items saying that "so-and-so" vendor finish...
Legal Process Outsourcing - Who Benefits
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...e Clifford Chance model will be sustainable in a marketplace where the justification for permitting offshoring is cost-driven, not quality-driven.
See the linked article for more information.
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Headcount at Outsourcing Vendors
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...ient, particularly in the first few years. It may also be that near-shoring is more productive than offshoring for certain tasks.
This productivity gap may not be too big an issue - as long as wage d...
Steps in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 4, 2008
...her Information Systems detailed the steps that they went through in helping a client enter into an offshoring relationship. The articles provide an interesting high-level overview of the process and ...
A Dead Deal
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 1, 2008
...en dealing with a European provider. What that tells me is that either (a) there was no significant offshoring aspect to this deal, or (b) that the deal was not properly priced by HP. In any case, it ...
India instability may drive offshoring to China
in The CIO Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...Chinese IT industry already poised to encroach on India's undisputed position atop the global offshoring dogpile , the latest developments in Bangalore are sure to be unwelcome news to I...
Supply chain video: What is the right paradigm in next generation outsourcing?
in Supplychainer, on July 27, 2008
...Now that many global companies have already used offshoring to India and China to reduce the cost of their operation, the question which remains on the table is: What is the next step? What should be ...
New PRTM research highlights supply chain trends till 2010
in Supplychainer, on July 24, 2008
...continue to emerge as major targets for globalization, while Eastern Europe is catching up as a top offshoring destination. Investments in North America and Western Europe also remain strong as compan...
Confusing Numbers
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 23, 2008
... 2008, considering it's an election year in the US." he went on to say that "[a]s any offshoring contracts or significant layoffs become very visible in an election year, customers are g...
Offshore outsourcing in trouble?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...domestic costs, rising. But Larry Dignan puts together some signs that all may not be well on the offshoring front.
Dignan puts together cautious statements from the Big Three Indian off-shoring fi...
China-based supply chain becoming a threat?
in Supplychainer, on July 10, 2008
... For a global company nowadays, using China as one of the base countries for sourcing and offshoring is a must and we see these across many sectors such as electronic consumer goods, medical de...
Does Legal Process Outsourcing Waive a Client's Fourth Amendment Rights?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 1, 2008
...h Hennessey sought clarification from the DC and Maryland Bar Associations regarding whether or not offshoring legal services compromises a client's fourth amendment rights. The suit is based on t...
China to encroach on India's offshoring turf?
in The CIO Weblog, on May 22, 2008
Why not? It sounds like the new frontier, reading this ComputerWorld article on opportunities for Mandarin speaking folks with managerial experience in the burgeoning Chinese IT market.
While India has loads of technical talent, as the article points out it isn't difficult to replicate that w...
Outsourcing in a recession
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2008
After I posted this article last week discussing cost-cutting measures and briefly mentioning that CIOs who had structured their departments to make significant use of outsourced services had a much easier time cutting costs quickly or temporarily, someone mentioned that I should have been more sp...
The image below is a fact.
in P2P File Sharing, on February 7, 2008
...gwriter royalties; yes, you heard that right, the organization that complains about how piracy harms artists wants to themselves, take a way a fair chunk of their profits. They have been trying t...
Reverse flow of offshoring back to America
in Supplychainer, on January 23, 2008
I have already written a little about this but reading Hottest Supply Chain Buzzwords list in Industry Week became a motivation for me to pinpoint the issue one more time:
Many manufacturers in U.S. are currently shifting their sourcing base from Asia to the Americas. The falling U.S. dollar,...
Nichts gelernt: Top-Gespräche auf der CeBIT 2008
in Das CIO Weblog, on 21.01.08
...T Outsourcing, wie der jüngste "Hexaware Outsourcing/Offshoring Report" beweist. Über 40 Mrd. Dollar für 2008 vorausgesagt!
o Richard Woods , Geschäftsführer Interactive Intelligence, präs...
Europe catches the outsourcing wave
in The CIO Weblog, on January 10, 2008
...Although much of the hoopla over outsourcing and offshoring technology functions has died down in the press lately (a bit odd, considering the Election year spooling up here in the US), the market...
More Evidence that Alzheimer's is A Type 3 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 30, 2007
...e Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center. He had recently identified the toxin that harms the brain in Alzheimer's, the first symptom of which is an inability to store new memories...
The "Butler" Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2007
...-type outsourcing:
"The second wave, according to some entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and offshoring veterans, will be the globalization of consumer services. People like Yamaki and Tham, th...
How to bootstrap your start-up for 50K or less
in BootStrapMe, on October 18, 2007
... Before you consider doing so, however, read Scott Burkett's post on " Offshoring for Startups " at Pothole on the Infobahn.
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Jonn Edwards On Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2007
...lican, to lay out an aggressive plan to get rid of the tax breaks that are available, including the offshoring that you just spoke about, that are available to hedge fund managers.
They're no...
Top Five Outsourcing Cities
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 28, 2007
...ng. One of the factors that was considered for this list was the longevity of these cities as a top offshoring/outsourcing destination as well as their over-all market share.
Here are the top five ci...
IT Pay unsatisfactory to most
in The CIO Weblog, on September 26, 2007
Network World has published their 2007 IT salary survey and revealed that most of us aren't really happy with what we are making on the job these days.
I am a bit curious as to whether or not this is really news at all-after all, it seems that people generally think they should be making ...
Insurance Offshoring in India
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 25, 2007
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The future for the Indian Offshoring Sector is looking quite good.
This was the general conclusion derived from the research study done by KPMG regarding the said industry. The study entitled Fro...
Improve Talent Management in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 20, 2007
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There is no question that there are many available workers in outsourcing/offshoring destination. The question here is the quality of the applicants which are available in the said places.
Usually...
Another bootstrapping definition
in BootStrapMe, on September 18, 2007
And while we're on the subject of definitions for business bootstrapping from our post yesterday , Matt Rogers founder of Aroxo has written another great one as a guest at Read/Write Web.
Matt explains that bootstrapping, at least for a computer based start-up, means:
• launch...
Hello? Virtual Assistants
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 16, 2007
...urced today and outsourcing personal and menial tasks is now a possibility.
This article entitled Offshoring: At your beck and call shows the delightful tale of hiring virtual assistants to help yo...
Outsourcing (Back) to America?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 15, 2007
...s taken another turn which could sound strange to our ears.
This is the outsourcing of jobs not in Offshoring destinations but to America again but not in the same company location. Outsourcing to ...
Offshore Call Center: The Challenge
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 11, 2007
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People that are living in Offshoring and outsourcing countries are more or less familiar with call centers and the work that these companies do. Most of the people who are qualified for this post...
Major trends in Supply Chain Area
in Supplychainer, on September 11, 2007
...Visibility: It's on the top of most supply chain agendas these days
* Virtualization: Not just offshoring/outsourcing, but also, in part, a long-term risky move in which the company adds less and...
11 key questions for outsourcing bootstrap
in BootStrapMe, on September 5, 2007
...someone else's business to make their product.
But outsourcing can sometimes also mean " offshoring ", sending at least some of your company's functions or processes to foreign cou...
Recover Your Deleted Files By The Gigabyte: Tempo Digital Recycle Bin
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 25, 2007
...delete something. Anything. It is stored safely within its 250GB vault. That puts your files out of harms way, but keeps them lurking around should you suddenly realize that you got a little too frisk...
Infosys on the changing "global business environment"
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2007
...o demand supply or strategic change in direction.
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