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Protected: Vietnam: Asia’s Newest IT and Outsourcing Tiger
January 28, 2010    Written By admin
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“So Near”: Mexico’s Potential as a Nearshore IT Services and Outsourcing Leader
December 8, 2009    Written By admin
1. Overview In the same manner that Mexico has established itself as a nearshore manufacturing alternative to China, the country is also increasingly showing up on the radar screen of companies seeking a nearshore alternative to India for IT services or outsourcing related work. In fact and in the latest A.T. Kearney Global Services Index, Mexico [...]
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Looking for new outsourcing opportunities? – Enter Germany
October 19, 2009    Written By Magdalena Szarafin
Is outsourcing just about savings in expenses? Are shared services just about labor and rental costs? In fact, much more is at stake in the global insourcing and outsourcing game… India, China and Malaysia being on the top… India and Philippines controlling about 50 percent of the global outsourcing market… India as a top BPO destination [...]
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Enter the Dragon: China’s Potential as a Global IT Services and Outsourcing Leader
October 11, 2009    Written By admin
1. Overview While India remains the undisputed leader of the global IT services and outsourcing industries, China has increasingly shown up on the radar screen of companies who are seeking an alternative location for third party outsourcing or for setting up a shared services operation. In fact and in the latest A.T. Kearney Global Services Index, [...]
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Methods and Tools for Achieving Quality in BPO and ITO
September 3, 2009    Written By JohnU
There is some irony in the fact that India has long been at the forefront of the quality movement in business process outsourcing (BPO) and outsourcing in general. After all and at least on the surface, India appears to be one of the most chaotic and volatile societies on earth and Indians themselves are known [...]
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO): Talent acquisition for the new millennium
July 12, 2009    Written By JohnU
In recent years, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) has increasingly become a standard tool used by HR departments to bring higher quality, lower costs, and better speed to talent acquisition and talent management initiatives. 1. RPO vs. HRO Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a form of outsourcing where some or all of an organization’s talent acquisition [...]
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Multisourcing: A truly global outsourcing delivery model
June 29, 2009    Written By JohnU
Outsourcing and offshoring business processes and IT functions in particular is no longer a simple matter of choosing between a couple of providers with locations in India or Ireland. The emergence of so many new providers with different sets of capabilities along with numerous potential offshore, nearshore and even homeshore locations has created a new [...]
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Nearshoring: Outsourcing to India without the pain
June 22, 2009    Written By JohnU
In recent years, three offshoring models have emerged – outsourcing to distant locations, homeshoring (that is, keeping the work at home) and nearshoring (a compromise solution) – with the later model increasingly offering a more competitive and attractive alternative to the other two offshoring models. 1. The Rise of Nearshoring Nearshoring is simply “outsourcing” or offshoring [...]
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Managing Offshore Software Teams
May 29, 2009    Written By Mani Malarvannan
The effect of Globalization touched all industries and jobs, software development is no different. Now a days software developers working for a company are physically separated with each other and they may be in different timezones within in a country or anywhere in the world.
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Growth of Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing
March 29, 2009    Written By Mani Malarvannan
Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing, (RIMO) is a growing trend among the outsource providers to deliver IT infrastructure management services remotely either from onshore, nearshore or from offshore locations. In the past customers were reluctant to outsource infrastructure management services to offshore locations but now that trend are changing. Recently India based HCL won a major [...]
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