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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
An article by Jacquline Zhang summarizes pretty well: by adding up the dangers and benefits of outsourcing to China, you get a fairly mixed report card.
(+) We score service provider availability a positive. There are some true diamonds with potential to grow, given the projects. The challenge is finding the ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Recent IDC study indicated almost half of small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have increased their IT budgets for 2008, ahead of larger enterprises. Study shows their lack of expertise in buying and deploying technology means their spending will be concentrated on playing catch-up with their larger counterparts. It also found ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The current U.S. economic slowdown will lead buyers of IT services to consider increasing the percentage of their labor in offshore, lower-cost locations such India and China, according to Gartner.
With concerns that the US economic slowdown could extend to other geographies, organizations are refocusing on IT cost reduction and taking ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
China has been promoting its outsourcing sector in recent years to tap the booming market. The nation's software outsourcing companies raked in $1.4 billion in revenue in 2006, up more than 40 percent compared with a year earlier. ITO providers in China are projected to earn $18 billion by 2010 ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Researchers at the Wharton School and careerbuilder.com released new study titled, "Jobs Beyond Borders," based on a survey of more than 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals and more than 6,700 workers across the U.S.
Among employers who offshore, 50% said they believe offshoring is necessary to compete in a global ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
A recent MSNBC report provides some interesting numbers related to outsouring:
For every 1 dollar spent on offshoring, the U.S. gets back $1.12 (and the global economy reaps another 33 cents), according to a report from McKinsey consultants. The reasoning: As more workers in India and other poor contry land higher-paying ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Driven by the increasing globalization of business, companies utilize offshoring and outsourcing to transform the way they grow their business. This is creating opportunities for more locations globally to attract enterprises and outsourcing service providers to set up in their country.
Top Selection Criteria for Outsourcing Location
Firms are looking to locations ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
According to a recent study published in businessweek, Companies that traditionally rely on India for offshore IT services have been looking for that something beyond India for some time, citing such reasons as high employee turnover and unreliable communications. But the search has taken on added urgency recently, especially for ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A recent study by Booz Allen & AmCham Shanghai offers some very interesting data.
Most interestingly, study revealed that firms saw access to the China market as the #1 reason for investing in China; whereas labor cost savings ranked #2.
Top 5 things where China is more attractive to the alternatives include: ...
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