Technology Outsourcing Headlines
Source: OutsourcingCenter (outsourcing-information-technology.com)
ITO Forecasts for 2008
Cost is still "a major factor" in IT outsourcing. But, according to Sergey Karas, Vice President, Global Strategy at Luxoft, Russia's largest ITO service provider, "globalness is the main driver today, along with access to skills not available in house."
The size of ITO contracts continues to be smaller because of multi-sourcing. Karas predicts that by 2008 multi-sourcing even among offshoring deals will be mainstream such that buyers will pass over providers offering delivery from only one country.Read More . . .
Source: outsourcing-toolkit.com
The Outsourcing Toolkit
Outsourcing can be an extremely complex and complicated undertaking. Each facet of the exercise needs to be carefully considered and properly executed. There is little margin for error if full value is to be obtained.
However, this need not be a trauma, nor an adventure of blind exploration. The potential benefits are well documented, and strategic outsourcing is now mature enough for the path to have been trodden countless times previously.
But how do you ensure that the lessons learned by others (sometimes the hard way) are put to good use? How do you ensure that you don't re-invent the wheel repeatedly? How do you manage the whole exercise as effectively and efficiently as possible?
The answer to all these question is the same... The Outsourcing Toolkit. Read More . . .
Source: TechnologyReview.com
China's high-growth export: technology outsourcing in city of Dalian
''. . .Our goal is to build up Dalian as a new leading city in global software and service outsourcing,'' said Jin Guowei, deputy director of Dalian's technology bureau. ''We want to be like America's Silicon Valley, Ireland's Dublin or Bangalore in India.'' Read More . . .
