Although there has been much debate on offshoring, and offshoring to India in particular, along with some baggage from the immigration and unemployment status in the U.S., service providers can rest assured that there will still be a bulk of U.S firms investing in the practice.
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According to Danny Ertel’s article on Outsource Magazine, outsourcing relationships are crucial to getting business done. And when they go sour, there’s a myriad alternatives companies and managers can use to keep the relationship alive. Although outsourcing has been around for more than twenty years, most deals go bad eventually. Worse – companies keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Read more
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The recent bomb attack on Mumbai, killing at least twenty people and wounding more than fifty, is one in a series. According to Wikipedia are “as of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts afflicted, at differing intensities, by various insurgent and terrorist movements. In August 2008, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said that there are as many as 800 terrorist cells operating in the country”. And accordingly to The Economist will the situation not improve anytime soon: “Indian intelligence fears that young Muslims in the country are growing more radical.” Read more
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An online report by the Economic Times said that a company in the U.K. is ‘backsourcing’ work after determining that outsourcing to India is not cheaper than getting the work done in the U.K. Read more
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In a move to obtain the lowest paid workers, Monroe County School District is planning to outsource maintenance and custodial work to external companies. The controversial plan will presumably save the school system $1.2 million. But that comes at a price; some of the lowest paid workers in the district will lose their job amid already high unemployment rates that cloud the country’s economic scene. Read more
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From the early 90′s, when offshoring started, Indian ITO and BPO companies have been hiring thousands of fresh graduates to work in various ITO and BPO projects. Though the trend decreased during the peak of the global recession, it has picked up again in recent months. Read more
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According to an online report by IDG News, India’s new laws concerning outsourcing of personal data from overseas firms will not account for the revised rules concerning collection of such data. This was reiterated by a data protection standards company executive representing the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). Read more
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Just a few short months ago, a college buddy reached out for some advice on a business startup he was considering related to CAD Services (Computer-Aided Design and other Engineering Services). As the Director of a US-based Engineering Services firm, he saw the value in being able to provide low-cost CAD drafting services to western firms at a fraction of the cost. He knew I was experienced with web design, blogging, and online business in general and was interested in ideas on starting a website and promoting the business since he figured most of his clients would come through web traffic. We got to talking, and after a brief conversation, it was evident that with the skill sets we could each bring to the venture, partnering up would be the best route. Fast-forward 3 short months, and we’re already profitable and growing rapidly. Here’s how we did it Read more
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On the heels of an allegation against Indian outsourcing giant, Infosys, for visa misappropriations, the industry is taking the industry by the storm. Read more
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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 compared to people in bigger cities. US companies are tapping these skilled IT workforce and onshoring their IT work. Recently Harvard Business Review published a report that specifies several US companies are started building IT centers within US and hiring IT workers. Read more
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