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- Top 10 IT headlines for July 8: Offshoring hurts customer satisfaction, Juniper sees enterprise biz as healthy
- Top 10 IT headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2008: Offshore outsourcing hurts customer satisfaction, Juniper CEO sees healthy enterprise business, alternatives to iPhone 3G, Richard Stallman blasts retiring Bill Gates, and more. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Information Technology, Juniper Networks Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Techweb, Offshoring, 3G, Strategy, Product Marketing, Outsourcing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- New study says more IT jobs at risk
- At the end of April, The Wharton School and CareerBuilder.com released new research on offshoring based on data from 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals. If you're in any of the sectors audited, you should be aware of some of the findings. With abounding uncertainty regarding the...
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John McKee
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Advice for a tech whose job is being outsourced to India? What IT specialties are hot right now?
- TechRepublic member dannyHK, a support tech from Hong Kong, recently posted:"I am having my job outsourced to India. Is there such a thing as a career in IT anymore or is it a cheap, value-less, commodity now? Should I look at another area? Seems like Management or Sales are the...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring, It Jobs, It Job Market, It Career, It, Career
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- New study says that offshoring is freeing up more money for new IT investments
- Info-Tech Research Group has released the results of its study on U.S. IT spending. The Canadian researchers expects that IT departments will increase spending from $840 billion in 2006 to $884 billion in 2007, a rise of 5.24%. By 2010, Info-Tech expects spending to reach $1.033 trillion.Key pointsA few key...
- Tags: IT strategy, It Management, IT leadership, It Jobs, Info-Tech Research
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- New study says that offshoring is freeing up money for new IT investments
- Is offshoring helping U.S. IT departments by freeing up money for new tech?That's what a new study from Info-Tech Research says, as I blogged about:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=498How does this affect your opinion of offshoring? Have you seen any real world examples of this happening?Snake eating its tailI live the need for higher...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Jason Hiner, information technology, IT investment, offshoring, offshore
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- India's Wipro to create 500 new U.K. jobs
- 9% is better than nothingI suppose it could be said that keeping 9% of the jobs here is better than having all of them go offshore. Of course, the jobs left here will probably be from a very narrow range of skills, and I doubt that many of those...
- Tags: Wipro Technologies, gardoglee, job
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- UK consumer attitude towards Outsourcing
- Hi,I’m doing a thesis on UK consumer attitude towards outsourcing. The purpose of the research project is to provide an insight about the key issues faced by consumers in the UK in regard to companies outsourcing operations, Such as Call centers. Moving on to the ultimate goal being the effect...
- Tags: outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2006-09-01
- Book Review: Offshoring IT Services
- Managing a global workforce and distributed teams is perhaps one of the most crucial aspects of offshore outsourcing, that is ‘offshoring’—the reason why the author Mohan Babu, who is with Infosys, has dedicated an entire chapter on this aspect in his new book Offshoring IT Services: A Framework for Managing...
- Tags: team, Managing, offshoring, outsourcing, outsource, sourcing, offshore outsourcing, b2bhandshake@..., it management, Offshoring IT Services, global workforce, information technology, IT services
- Discussion threads 2006-06-24
- Is Offshoring Just an Excuse for Brushing Your Call Centre Issues Under the Carpet?
- Since 2003 the lure of call centre offshoring has been a business magnet. Typically Uk call centre staffing costs account for two-thirds of the total running costs of an operation. So if new world economies such as India can halve the wage bill then this could result in a cost...
- Tags: U.K., Offshoring, RXPerience, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2006-05-02
- Nearshoring to Atlantic Canada, Is It the Smart Alternative to Offshore Outsourcing to India?
- This paper analyses the growth of offshore outsourcing from the US and the value it delivers to client. It shows how such value received by offshoring in distant lands like India can be easily achieved by nearshoring locations of Atlantic Canada, while mitigating many risks associated with offshoring in far...
- Tags: India, Offshore Outsourcing, Offshoring, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2005-07-27
- Spell it correctly! It's SweatSHIP, not SweatSHOP.
- SeaCode, Inc., a San Diego-based startup, plans to acquire a "cruise ship" and staff it with 600 Indian and Russian software engineers (2). They will anchor it 3.01 miles offshore of Los Angeles, just out of the reach of U.S. labor, tax, and immigration law. This is offshoring that is...
- Tags: 3-Mile, career, h-1b, immigration law, jobs, offshore, offshoring, outsourcing, U.S. Labor, visas, www.softcorp.us
- Discussion threads 2005-05-12
- Offshoring's second wave
- Reasons for offshoring"McKinsey cites several reasons".... This is a bunch of bull! The real reasons are; No OSHA, No EPA, No U.S. Federal Government, and the biggest reason, wages at extreme poverty levels. Need I say more. It's all about profits at the expense of US workers.Global Economy nowso no...
- Tags: AMERICAN, American Business, Americans, biz, burger_alan@..., career, job
- Discussion threads 2005-04-06
- Effective Outsourcing Quick Guide
- Successful outsourcing requires that IT managers define project requirements appropriately and properly measure services received. This guide examines critical elements to review when outsourcing and presents proven tips for creating strong relationships and maximizing initiatives. You'll also receive Offshoring: The Reality Behind the Politics, CNET News.com's special report that examines...
- Tags: outsourcing, offshoring, IT manager, News.com, industry, U.S.
- Download resources 2004-12-17
- Offshore outsourcing set for a big year?
- Will offshoring increase in 2005?A pair of studies paint decidedly different pictures of the outsourcing landscape. A report published this week by Gartner indicated that outsourcing may not be as widespread as some think, with lower-cost sites accounting for less than 3 percent of money spent on global technology services....
- Tags: Newsletter Ed, offshore outsourcing, offshoring, outsource, outsourcing, SBC
- Discussion threads 2004-12-10
- Study: Government data limited on offshoring
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- Tags: Outsourcing, offshoring, General Accounting Office
- Technical articles 2004-09-24
- Putting Your Own House in Order Before Offshoring
- Competitive pressures are compelling many organizations to consider off shoring their IT services. Many have already moved application development as far as India, China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Indeed, 86% of participants in DiamondCluster International's 2004 Global IT Outsourcing study expect their use of offshore IT outsourcing to increase over...
- Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Borland Software Corp., IT Outsourcing, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Software Development, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-09-03
- IBM downsizes U.S. layoff plans
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- Tags: Workforce management, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IBM Corp., layoff, offshoring
- Technical articles 2004-07-30
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: The Impact of Offshoring on the Global Supply Chain
- As offshoring and globalization of manufacturing operations continues to grow, leading firms are developing new strategies to optimize the performance of their supply chain. The effect offshoring has on reducing manufacturing costs has been widely recognized. However, the impact of offshoring on supply chain risks, inventory positioning, supplier selections, and...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Offshoring, Effect Offshoring, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Webcasts
- Offshoring: Canada's Attractiveness
- Canada ranks 2nd among English-speaking developed countries and 8th in the world on A.T. Kearney's 2004 Offshore Location Attractiveness Index. This presentation compares and contrasts offshore locations such as India and Ireland, using criteria such as business process experience, people skills and availability, compensation costs, business environment and cultural...
- Tags: Compensation, Canada, Offshoring, Leading Edge British Columbia, Benefits, Human Resources
- Presentations
Additional Resources
- Managing Offshoring
- There are very few books on managing Offshored projects. This book may fill the void: http://www.offshoringmanagement.com
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- Discussion threads 2005-05-13
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