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		<title>How the Philippines overtook India in call centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently and according to various reports and industry experts, the Philippines “officially” overtook India in call centers and voice related work. In fact and in a December 2010 article in Business Week, the Everest Group estimated that the Philippines will have pocketed US$5.7 billion in 2010 for call center work from the US, Europe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philippines &#8220;officially&#8221; overtakes India in call centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its “official” according to various reports and industry experts: The Philippines has now overtaken India in call centers and voice related work. According to IBM&#8217;s latest Global Locations Trend Annual Report, the Philippines is now the world leader in business support functions like shared services and BPO with India ranked as number two for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has morning arrived in India?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October, Thomas L. Friedman wrote a thought provoking piece from India for the New York Times entitled It’s Morning in India which he began by first noting how unrealistic French students are to be rioting over a small increase in the pension retirement age when France has already discovered that a 35-hour workweek is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to encourage US job growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the official unemployment rate hovering at just below 10%, President Obama and many of the policymakers in Washington DC seem to be completely out of new ideas about how to encourage job growth in America – unless you believe that more government spending, more protectionism, restricting outsourcing and fewer visas for foreigner workers will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is recruitment moving back in-house?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global financial crisis has, in many instances, decimated corporate recruiting departments in particular. After all and if a company is not hiring, there is little need to keep recruiters around on the payroll. Meanwhile, RPO is often billed as a cost effective alternative for dealing with such dramatic swings in staffing levels by allowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the role of HR in outsourcing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both HR and outsourcing have truly come of age over the past few decades. After all, the HR department was once considered to be just the admin department but today the HR department is increasingly filling a more strategic role within a business and is becoming important for helping organizations to achieve cost reductions through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Indian outsourcers loose out on the coming health care spending wave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coming health care related outsourcing and IT spending wave in theory could be bonanza for Indian IT services firms and outsourcers alike but will increased concerns over the outsourcing of medical records derail the efforts of Indian firms to grab a significant piece of this market? Much is at stake as starting next year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a sweatshop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has recently announced its second quarter numbers which have not only surpassed market expectations but have also achieved several milestones that were recently noted by N Chandrasekaran, their managing director, CEO, and S Mahalingam, their chief financial officer, in an interview for the Business Standard. They noted that from a demand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US midterm elections: India, China and outsourcing become attack ad topics</title>
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		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/midterm-elections-india-china-outsourcing-hot-ad-topics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-term elections in the USA are just around the corner and as with other recent elections, the heated topic of outsourcing has come up – especially since many of the GOP challengers have business and private sector backgrounds. For example: On the East End of Long Island in New York, Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to outsource research and development (R&amp;D) and innovation</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsource-research-development-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsource-research-development-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product and Process innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s economy, everything is considered outsourceable – including research and development (R&#38;D) and innovation itself. However, the outsourcing of R&#38;D or innovation itself is not actually a new idea or trend. Businessweek noted back in a lengthy 2005 article that businesses were already farming out R&#38;D to cut costs and that companies like Cellon, [...]]]></description>
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