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·100 Small Business Tips and Tricks for Effectively Outsourcing to India
Who said small businesses can't outsource? There are ways to send your writing, IT tasks and other needs overseas to add efficiency to your enterprise. By doing some prior planning and following some pointers, you can get the quality help...
·Outsourcing Your Healthcare
Medical tourism, or travel tourism as it is sometimes called, has been picking up momentum in the United States, where the costs of health care are often times quite excessive. Medical tourism is the practice of traveling outside of one's...
·Online College Degrees Becoming More Prevalent in HR Marketplace
Hiring an outsourcing or HR manager is rarely an easy task. One of the first qualifications that you're bound to look at is education. We all know that Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, and the like are consistently ranked atop the...
·Outsourcing Is Healthy & Good: Study
By Priya Jestin, Staff Writer Those who felt that there was a chance the outsourcing industry would die out, may not be too happy with this recent survey by KPMG. According to the study Strategic Evolution, outsourcing is increasing and...
·Know Your World: India
By Priya Jestin, Staff Writer Let’s play a game to check your GK. How many of these words make sense to you: Holi, Eid, Bandh, Ambedkar jayanthi, Ugadi? If you are a regular American with not much connection with the...
·Know Your World: India
Let’s play a game to check your GK. How many of these words make sense to you: Holi, Eid, Bandh, Ambedkar jayanthi, Ugadi? If you are a regular American with not much connection with the outside world, you probably wouldn’t...
·China: Painful Outsourcing
Are you planning to outsource your manufacturing to India? Hope you are aware of the risks associated with outsourcing to China. You may have to face quality problems, delay in deliveries and worst of all, theft of your intellectual property....
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·BP refines £4.7bn operational efficiency plan
Oil giant BP is aiming to remove a total of $7 billion (£4.7 billion) from annual operational costs, aided by a huge overhaul of IT, processes and project management.
·Charity foundation outsources to protect data
Secure systems and reliable servers are critical for donor organizations that supply funding during crises like the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti.
·Are Your Outsourcer's Prices Too Low?
It's always a good idea to benchmark your outsourcer's prices periodically against the market. But what if you find that your IT service provider's rates are too low?
·P&G's clout with HP reaches to the CEO's office
A Proctor & Gamble IT executive talks about the company's mega outsourcing pact with Hewlett-Packard and about how the consumer products company uses simulation to find ways to increase sales.
·How to manage outsourcers after the contract's ink is dry
When the global trade association SEMI experienced a big revenue decline last year and had to cut staff, CIO Gil McInnes turned to outsourcing. He hired CenterBeam Inc. to consolidate and manage the semiconductor industry association's servers and infrastructure on a variable cost basis.
·Government offshores £600m pension processing to India
The government is set to sign a 10-year deal with Tata Consultancy Services, worth approximately £600 million, which will see the majority of processing jobs on a new pensions scheme located in India.
·BSkyB asks HP judge for £49 million legal costs
BSkyB has asked a high court judge to order a £49 million payment from HP, so that it can recover its full legal costs in the parties' ten-year dispute.
·Outsourcing Prices Still Headed Down in 2010
Two major trends led to lower prices for outsourced IT services last year--the global economic downturn and the uptick in remote infrastructure management (RIM) adoption.
·IBM layoffs blamed on offshoring
After cutting as many as 10,000 workers from its U.S. workforce last year, IBM this week may be on its way to laying off another 2,000 employees.
·IBM to lay off 400-plus workers, alliance says
The Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701 employee group said that IBM has issued layoff notices to 400 employees, and that more layoffs are expected.
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·Telco price wars hit BPO margins
The plethora of new pricing schemes from telecom companies, like 'one paisa per second' billing, has squeezed the margins of their business process outsourcing partners.
·US wants Indian businesses to create jobs in US
US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer also sought to downplay concerns that President Barack Obama was targeting American companies having operations in India ever since he called such businesses tax evaders.
·IT, BPO companies bond over Valentine's Day
This year, the date falls on a Sunday, which is a holiday for most companies. But it has not deterred BPO firms from celebrating in advance.
·Obama labels outsoucers as tax evaders
American president Barack Obama has once again targeted American companies having their operations in India to save taxes back home and called such businesses tax evaders.
·India's IT-BPO mart may touch $285 bn in 2020
The IT-BPO industry in India has achieved impressive growth rates over the past decade and stood at $71.6 billion in 2009, said the report prepared by KPMG and Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation.
·Software, BPO exports to touch $50 bn; may grow 15%
The estimation is in line with an earlier forecast of 4-7 per cent given by National Association of Software and Service Companies. The industry was optimistic to reach the $50 billion milestone export target in the current fiscal.
·Indian BPO companies create jobs in US, too
Firstsource was perhaps the first BPO that set shop in the US city of Buffalo in 2004 with 287 employees.
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·Government offshores £600m pension processing to India
The government is set to sign a 10-year deal with Tata Consultancy Services, worth approximately £600 million, which will see the majority of processing jobs on a new pensions scheme located in India.
·Protectionism worries Indian outsourcers
India's leading software trade body said on Tuesday that protectionism in key markets could affect the growth prospects of the country's outsourcing industry.
·India's outsourcing exports at US$50 billion
India's revenue from exports of IT and BPO (business process outsourcing) services is likely to grow 5.5 percent to US$49.7 billion in the Indian fiscal year to March 31, 2010, according to estimates released Thursday by the country's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom).
·Indian outsourcers see a turnaround ahead
The market for Indian outsourcers is on the mend, but these companies will have to build expertise in new technology areas, and set up operations in multiple locations to take advantage of market conditions, according to analysts.
·IT service providers will reach for the cloud in 2010
Mike Slavin, a partner at outsourcing advisory and consulting firm TPI, says cloud computing will dominate IT service providers' plans in 2010.
·Six Offshore Outsourcing Hot Spots for 2010
The headlines in offshore outsourcing in 2010 may focus less on the quantity of work organizations are sending overseas and more on where they're sending it.
·Career WatchA challenge to the wisdom on offshoring
Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology professor and author of Outsourcing America, talks about the broad consequences of offshoring.
·Wipro, other Indian outsourcers expand in the US
Wipro, India's third largest outsourcer, is expanding its development center in Atlanta from 350 to 1,000 staff, reflecting a growing trend for Indian outsourcers to expand and hire locally in the U.S. market.
·Mixed bag for IT services spending in 2009, Forrester says
Enterprise IT leaders continue to keep tight controls on budgets, cutting their spending on IT contractors and consultants, according to a new Forrester Research report.
·IBM sets up top-end business analytics center in India
IBM has set up a center in Bangalore that will focus on offering high-end expertise to the business analytics market worldwide.
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