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		<title>The Future of Indian BPO companies-2012 and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2010, Indian BPO companies are in a buying spree. The value of BPO mergers and acquisitions might exceed several billion dollars. The main reason behind BPO industry consolidation is due to the change in customer demand and their business requirements. The cost arbitrage days are gone for Indian BPO companies; they no longer can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can offshore outsource vendors offer innovative solutions?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/can-offshore-outsource-vendors-offer-innovative-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Forrester Research published a report on offshore vendor innovation. According to the report, close to 41% of companies using offshore outsource providers are not getting any innovative solutions from their providers. According to the report, here are the following  three types of innovative solutions offered by the offshore vendors that are not acceptable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you blame offshore outsourcing for high US unemployment?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/blame-offshore-outsourcing-high-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current American unemployment rate is at 9.1%; it has been above 9% since the American financial melt-down that occurred in 2008. Who is to blame? Is it offshore outsourcing companies? Foreigners (read:Indians) coming in with H1, B1, and L1 visas? Illegal immigrants from Mexico stealing low-paid American jobs? American politicians fighting over policies instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Outsourcing-Onshoring</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcingonshoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the continuation of sluggish US economy, US companies are finding ways to use low-cost regions within the US for their IT work. Though offshore outsourcing is pervasive to find cheap but good IT labor, there are regions within US which have good IT skilled people that are willing to work for less salary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From outsourcing to globalization &#8211; 2011 and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing started in the early 90’s as a revolutionary phenomenon of sending unskilled work from developed countries to developing countries and is now transformed into globalization. Globalization fundamentally changed the structure of business, consumers, and the political landscape that revolves around us. Goldman Sachs predicts that the Chinese economy will overtake the American economy by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can outsourcing create innovative business models?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-innovative-business-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last blog I explained how outsourcing helps innovation. In this blog I will discuss how outsourcing can help companies to come up with new and innovative business models using Bharti Airtel as an example. Bharti Airtel is India&#8217;s largest Telecom service provider had following set of requirements in growing their business all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does outsourcing really kill innovation?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-kills-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://outsourceportfolio.com/?p=4694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read a blog in the Harvard Business Review web site. It is an interesting blog that discusses outsourcing and IT innovation. The blog suggests that large scale IT outsourcing limits strategic value of companies and limits innovation using IT as a strategic asset. It is sad that still blogs and articles are being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid Scalability of Complex and Dynamic Web-Based Systems: Challenges and Recent Approaches to Mitigation</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/rapid-scalability-complex-dynamic-webbased-systems-challenges-approaches-mitigation/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/rapid-scalability-complex-dynamic-webbased-systems-challenges-approaches-mitigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authors: Mani Malarvannan and S. Ramaswamy (Published in IEEE SOSE 2010) In this paper, we summarize and outline some of the big challenges in addressing performance, scalability, and availability of applications with large and complex backend database systems. We present some of the limitations imposed by the CAP theorem on distributed systems development and identify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can companies outsource product development for innovation?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsource-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsource-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review I read an interesting news about outsourcing product development and innovation. It was mentioned that companies cannot benefit outsourcing product development if it is too simple or too complex, companies can benefit if the product development is moderately complex. I could not find the entire article published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Business Process Standardization help BPO?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/business-process-standardization-help-bpo/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/business-process-standardization-help-bpo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mani Malarvannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[artistic processes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know how outsource companies brag about their CMM level, Six Sigma, COPC &#8211; 2000, etc. Two years back I wrote an article explaining how business process standardization helps customers in their outsourcing projects. Last week I read an article in Harvard Business Review, When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? that made [...]]]></description>
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