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"Offshoring": How Big An Issue?
White Papers Spurred by the political debate in the US and several high-profile corporate moves, "Offshoring" has become a lively topic of discussion. This paper tries to put recent developments in context and argues that "Offshoring" should be seen as part of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Gartner: Offshoring 'less Prevalent Than You Think'
News How big a deal is offshoring? Comprehensive information about the scale and impact of offshoring has been lacking, but the United States' Congress recently passed a bill that would set aside $2m to study the issue.
[December 10, 2004, 13:40]
Offshoring Difficult In A Political Vacuum
Talkback It is hard to separate political from economic risks in calculating offshoring trends. From the European perspective,a search for offshore locations is increasingly including negative domestic reactions not only to a potential for job losses...
[July 3, 2007, 15:19]
Offshoring Giants See Rapid Growth
News Three of India's biggest outsourcing companies have reported significant financial growth, demonstrating that the offshoring industry is showing no signs of slowing. Although offshoring has experienced significant growth over the last few years...
[April 26, 2005, 17:50]
Offshoring 'not Costing UK Jobs'
News Offshoring of IT and call centre roles to low-cost countries such as India has not hit UK jobs, according to the latest official employment statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The employment data calculated by region is also in...
[September 9, 2005, 9:50]
Offshoring Behind UK Tech-labour Divide
News Offshoring is creating a divide in the UK technology industry by reducing the proportion of mid-level software-development jobs available in favour of higher-level management roles, research has claimed.
[September 26, 2007, 12:19]
Offshoring 'not Lowering IT Wages'
News But analyst firm Foote Partners disagrees, saying offshoring is no longer affecting IT workers' pay in the US and Europe. But companies have become more aware of the difficulties in doing offshoring successfully.
[July 21, 2005, 9:40]
Offshoring Payments Processing: Payments Experts Only Need Apply
White Papers As the offshoring debate rages on many fronts, often lost in the rhetoric is the main rule of offshoring: You should offshore only those functions that can be done better, faster, more cheaply and without unmanageable risk.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Offshoring: Is It A Win-Win Game?
White Papers The business practice of offshoring focuses on the relocation of labor-intensive service industry functions to locations remote to the business center; it's prime benefit is reduces labor costs. It has been enabled by the improvement in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Putting Your Own House In Order Before Offshoring
White Papers However, the downstream challenges of making offshoring a success are just starting to be fully understood. Competitive pressures are compelling many organizations to consider off shoring their IT services.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
FSA Endorses Offshoring
News The report warns that offshoring can contribute a material risk to market confidence, financial crime and consumer protection but the FSA said it is happy with the levels of governance and risk management it found at sites in India.
[May 6, 2005, 10:00]
Tech Workforce Shrinks Due To Offshoring
News Ovum senior analyst Phil Codling said in a statement: "We will see the UK-based S/ITS workforce shrink in size under the effect of offshoring. The success of offshore outsourcing is causing the number of UK-based tech staff to decline.
[September 5, 2006, 9:40]
Young Call-centre Customers Mistrust Offshoring
News Just over half said company location affects their buying decisions, and one in three said offshoring is bad for a business' image. Young people don't trust overseas call centres and are critical of companies that outsource work to offshore locations.
[July 21, 2006, 17:15]
Top 30 Offshoring Hotspots Announced
News The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations. Analyst group Gartner assessed 30 countries for their suitability for offshoring to help sourcing managers who are "daunted" by the...
[December 12, 2007, 8:01]
Survey Finds Increasing Uncertainty Over Offshoring
News Offshoring is viewed with increasing ambivalence in the IT industry, according to the exclusive 2007 Skills Survey from ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com. One-third of respondents to the survey agree or strongly agree with the statement "I feel that...
[August 22, 2007, 10:04]
Global Market Hit By 'DIY' Offshoring Bug
News Duncan Aitchison, managing director at TPI, said in the quarterly update that part of the reason is a rise in the number of organisations doing "DIY" offshoring. He said in the quarterly update: "We believe the slowing of growth in the global...
[July 13, 2007, 9:02]
IT Pros Fear Offshoring, Executives Don't
News Perhaps secure in the knowledge that they will be around to orchestrate and manage any offshored IT work, two-thirds said they don't believe offshoring is a threat to their job. Despite the confidence of these high-fliers, some still fear for their...
[May 17, 2006, 15:35]
China To Overtake India In Offshoring By 2011
News But this offshoring trend is likely to change in the near future, according to a study by IDC. There are different risk factors to consider when evaluating outsourcing, offshoring, onshoring, and nearshoring," explained Chang in a statement on...
[July 3, 2007, 13:44]
IT Offshoring Spending Set To Grow
Talkback India could develop in offshoring but the parent companies must show the interest on the interested consultant who can work seriously to enhance the organizational growth as well as individual growth.
[March 23, 2005, 8:25]
Onshore Offshoring - Cheap Labour
Talkback This was obvious ages ago when offshoring became popular. And they only JUST realised - what does it take? Well done - a good way to make the UK economy go bust and the IT industry to become as down-trodden as the NHS - yeah good one!
[February 21, 2007, 11:11]
