We are witnessing an increasing trend in outsourcing not only in terms of vertical industry but also geographic scope. The firms which are investing in it are wide ranging but their needs are same as they have to reduce their overheads as much as they can but still outsourcing is rarely understood by all. Sales [...]
Nowadays we are seeing an increasing trend of web development software industry being offshored due to the increase in the cost of programming and development services. Due to increased costs in Australia, U.K and U.S, clients are preferring greener pastures. In order to bring down the costs the companies are moving to low cost destinations [...]
A bill goes knocking. In the senate a bill for blocking spending on a contract for operations at Walter Reed has been shot down. Already the house has passed language from keeping the Army from moving forward with a plan for transferring work which the feds are doing at Walter Reed to private workers in [...]
International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has ranked Perot Systems as one of the Top Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Providers in the world. This award is given to a company depending upon the application received and evaluation conducted by an independent panel of judges. For the 2006 awards, the criteria considered were customer experience, size [...]
Legal outsourcing might not be a common in Canada as of now but concerns are being raised regarding privacy issues if it becomes prevalent. This is what Sergio Karas, Toronto immigration lawyer had to say: I think it’s something that we need to really be on guard against, that certainly will give rise to a [...]
Professional blogging has a wonderful future and it is beneficial for all those who are involved in it. The blogger gets paid for writing posts and in return the owner of the blog gets regular posting on his or her blog. A blog owner might not be have the time for researching and writing posts [...]
Beware India!! China which is considered to be world’s factory floor is now all set to turn into an international powerhouse and would certainly be offering challenges to all the leaders in outsourcing such as India and Philippines. China is already preferred by MNCs for manufacturing and R&D and it could certainly emerge as a [...]
Something new is happening in India. BrickWork which is a Bangalore based BPO firm is getting into outsourcing of hospital management and administration. The BPO has got a management contract for Cauvery medical Center in Bangalore. It is a BOT contract under which the company would be managing hospitals, recruiting doctor and nurses, procuring medical [...]
A recent study has indicated that outsourcing would drive the analytical laboratory market over a period of next seven years but small labs would have to suffer in the process. The laboratory services market has been affected by the increasing cost of labor and stringent control on spending by the pharmaceutical industry. The analytical market [...]
Hospitals in Leeds are facing losses and have debts to the tune of 84 million pounds and hence in order to emerge from this fiasco have decided to outsource the MT work to India which would help them in saving around one million pounds per year. The hospitals would be cutting flab by abolishing sixty [...]
