You must be knowing about Luxoft, a Russian company which offers IT outsourcing services to a host of companies such as Dell, IBM, T-Mobile to name a few and now it has come up with a prediction for the IT outsourcing industry for the year 2007. This is a well covered prediction which includes a range of business, technical and relationship pulse points and states that the global IT outsourcing market has matured to quite an extent. Some of the predictions for the year 2007 for the outsourcing industry are: Value Becomes King Over Pure Cost Outsourcing Gets More Agile Hybrid Models Become the Norm Security Bar Is Raised – In 2007 Player Consolidation Continues Nearshoring Comes Closer Financial Industry Increasingly Banks on Outsourcing This is a very good prediction and some of the predictions are expected to turn out to be true. Click her to read the whole prediction.