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HOW TO OUTSOURCE RESEARCH NEEDED TO CREATE SOFTWARE-- AND GET IT RIGHT
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Sometimes you know exactly what you want your software to do. You can easily hire an offshore programming team or a freelancer
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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XL WORLD GROUP CONFIRMS 300% GROWTH IN THE OUTSOURCING MARKET IN 2006
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XL World announces that final results for 2006 exceeded its planned business objectives. The data reflect the Group's strong dynamic growth over 2006 with a growth rate of 300%.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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IT OUTSOURCING: THE EXPERT VIEW
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IT outsourcing is a way for companies to pass the day-to-day running of their IT business processes to third-parties.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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EU COHESION REPORT SETS OUT 17 AREAS OF DISPARITY FOR DEBATE
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The European Commission Wednesday set out 17 questions for a wider debate to address disparities across the continent.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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OUTSOURCING VS. IMMIGRATION
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From America's earliest days, when there was work to be done, businesses and the government brought workers to the job site to finish it.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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BEST OUTSOURCING PARTNERSHIPS
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Nine customer-provider relatonships are recognized as best outsourcing partnerships by the Outsourcing Center
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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TEN TIPS ON DEALING WITH OFFSHORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
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Who to blame if your outsourced project failed?
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Monday, May 28, 2007
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IT-BPO FIRMS BEAT WAGE INFLATION BLUES
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The domestic IT-BPO firms have devised many strategies to counter the 12-15 per cent annual rise in wages.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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PONDER SENDING WORK ACROSS THE POND
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We've all heard the arguments before. Offshore outsourcing works as long as you can tap into a foreign location that has good internet and telephone links
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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WHERE'S THE REAL SHORTAGE: IT WORKERS OR IT JOBS?
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At Interop in Vegas, reps from tech services companies were pounding a familiar mantra: Offshore outsourcing is necessary because there aren't enough tech workers
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING NOT HURTING SERVICE JOB NUMBERS
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A new study released by StatsCan on Tuesday says there is no clear evidence that occupations potentially subject to service offshoring displayed smaller employment growth than other occupations in recent years.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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OFFSHORING ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE MONEY: SURVEY
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Operational efficiency can also be achieved, research firm finds
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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PARTNERSHIP RATHER THAN PROCUREMENT IS THE NEW PATH TO EFFECTIVE OUTSOURCING
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While outsourcing remains a critical element of the corporate strategic mix, success in today's complex outsourcing marketplace is contingent on new dynamics
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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THE PROBLEMS OF OUTSOURCING OFFSHORE
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Dr Graham Oakes looks at offshoring and asks where all the managers have gone
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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NOW, OUTSOURCING GETS PERSONAL
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It's the latest buzzword in outsourcing and soon it may touch your life personally. For outsourcing is fast transforming itself from being a multi-people oriented activity to an individual one.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
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OUTSOURCERS LOOK AT KNOWLEDGE PROCESS OUTSOURCING TO TAKE THEM BEYOND BPO
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In many ways, outsourcing is a microcosm of the larger business world. That’s certainly true with regard to the value of certain skills.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
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THE GREAT DEBATE: OFFSHORE VS. ON-DEMAND
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As we noted recently, the emergence of hosted, on-demand or software-as-a-service (SaaS) proved the lead topic of discussion at this year's Software 2007 conference.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
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TECH, MEDIA HIRING BOOSTED BY MOVE TO DIGITAL
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Programmers and engineers again have the advantage when it comes to global hiring
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
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MORE -- OR LESS -- ON OUTSOURCING
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Due to the press of business yesterday we didn't get a chance to do justice to Bob Samuelson's piece about the big nothing sandwich that is outsourcing.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
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‘SERVICE PROVISION SHOULD COME FROM THE BEST POSSIBLE LOCATION’
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Offshoring a service, simply because it is possible to do so, may not always be the best solution, according to Mr Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Director of the UK National Outsourcing Association.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
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SENDING CONTRACTS OFFSHORE
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When, if ever, does it make sense to have your contract-related legal services performed overseas?
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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SENATORS SAY OFFSHORE FIRMS ARE BIGGEST H-1B USERS
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Foreign-based companies that specialize in offshoring U.S. technology jobs received 30 percent of visas last year
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO OFFSHORE
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If the local media's important, why isn't local IT?
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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A QUESTION FOR YOU
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I've always felt pretty strongly that if you have a question about something, you should ask it.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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OFFSHORING ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE MONEY, SURVEY SUGGESTS
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Execs say sending work overseas can improve operations -- if it's done right
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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OUTSOURCING RULES REDEFINED
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IT giants like IBM, Infosys, Wipro and WNS -- providing offshore services from India to clients in the developed part of the world -- have got a new rival on the fast expanding BPO landscape.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
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OFFSHORE HR: WHAT CUSTOMERS CAN DO?
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Plenty. They can recommend the type of people to be recruited, develop training content, train the trainers and even set up programs for staff at the provider's end to work at the parent company
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
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OFFSHORE SUCCESS IS UNEVEN, SAYS KEARNEY STUDY
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The British philosopher John Stuart Mill discovered he couldn't achieve happiness by pursuing it; happiness is a byproduct of focusing your energy on doing worthwhile things.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
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FINANCE MINISTRY U-TURNS ON
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Car tax lift could see old cars back in business
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
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TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BRANDING
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In the world of outsourcing 2.0, brand management has become a strategic imperative. Poor brand choices become marketing handicaps.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
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I SAY TOMAYTO, YOU SAY TOMAHTO
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Language and cultural differences can cause a lot of heartburn in outsourcing relationships. Here are some instances of how things can go awry
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Monday, May 07, 2007
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SAN DIEGO BAR OPINION: LEGAL OUTSOURCING AND OFFSHORING
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I read with interest the recent San Diego Bar Association Opinion on outsourcing and offshoring.
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
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MIFID COULD FORCE BANKS TO REVISE OUTSOURCING ARRANGEMENTS
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The mere mention of the Markets and Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) strikes fear into the hearts of Government ministers, let alone financial institutions.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
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WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY JOBS IN BANGALORE?
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Software-services companies and MNC offshore units inherently introduce inefficiencies that are supposedly alleviated by increasing the headcount
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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OPINION: GLOBAL SERVICES' LEVEL PLAYING-FIELD
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The global services landscape is maturing fast, as a new book by regular silicon.com contributors Mark Kobayashi-Hillary and Dr Richard Sykes makes clear. Here, Kobayashi-Hillary highlights several key trends.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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CRACKING THE OUTSOURCING MARKET
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Whereas CEOs may hire local offshore assistants to help with sales and marketing, they are generally starved of resources to meet their sales and marketing responsibilities, and they are consequently unable to do so.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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