About: Radhika
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Profile: Hi! I am a journalist with 16 years of experience. I've held senior editorial positions with leading Indian publications.
Posts by Radhika:
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Don’t Want to Outsource? Try Homeshoring instead
This could actually be a win-all for all. As a halfway compromise between on and offsite development, homeshoring can be the next big survival option for the downturn. Read more
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Cost is not the only consideration in outsourcing
Offshore development has always been regarded as an effective strategy for organizations wanting to cut costs and/or remain focused on their core business values. The common management principle is that the stronger your core, the more opportunities you will have to move into other profitable ventures. The rationale behind outsourcing is thus to transfer all non-core activities to other vendors, who can perform those activities as well, if not better than the parent company. Read more
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Concentrate on your customers; leave security for the third party
A YouGov survey, commissioned by the British Chambers of Commerce and Microsoft last year had come up with some interesting findings.
Among other things, the survey had revealed that while SMBs in the UK — as elsewhere in the world — have made significant improvements in the way they have begun to use the internet technology; they are still far from tapping the full potential of the new tools through business process outsourcing.
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A smart outsourcer knows whether he needs a Merc or a Chevrolet will do
Selecting an offshore vendor who best meets your business needs is perhaps the most difficult decision you make as an outsourcer. There are at least a hundred issues to be sorted out before a deal can be struck. Read more
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Communicating bad news to your offshore team
Bad news deliveries are never easy. Especially when it pertains to job losses. And the possibility of snatching away a person’s steady income, a certain lifestyle, family comforts etc. The difficult decision that many corporates in America are being forced to take these days on account of the worsening situation at home gets compounded in the case of offshore vendors by the distance factor.
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Recession will continue to fuel outsourcing trend
Desperate situations often call for desperate measures.
So while I do understand the angst that prompts a rookie ex-programmer like Virgil Bierschwale to start something like where he keeps venting his spleen at the American CEOs who continue to lay off employees in order to stay above the water (Bierschwale even has a “Wall of Shame” (I would call it a breast-beating forum) for them on his website) —- the fact cannot be brushed aside that outsourcing as a business model may not just survive, but even thrive in a depressed market. And, there is an economic justification for it. -
When economics demand it, why give outsourcing a bad name?
I’ve read with interest, President elect Barrack Obama’s comments on outsourcing. There is nothing new in those comments. The fear psychosis has been with us for decades. During industrialization, the dominant fear was that machines would replace humans. Post telecommunication-internet boom, the fear is that tech workers from developing economies like India and China will make white-collared American workers redundant.
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