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Engineering Services Outsourcing: The Next Frontier in Global Sourcing
Engineering Services is an exciting new offshore outsourcing opportunity, especially for India. The market is expected to grow ~40% over the next 5 years, based on demand patterns, but increasing resource constraints need to be addressed quickly through privately funded education and training programs.
Destination Africa: Is Africa Emerging As A Viable Outsourcing Destination?
The unprecedented growth in the global sourcing of Technology, Business and Knowledge Managed Services has seen the emergence of multiple geographies and countries as provider destinations of these services.
Impact Sourcing: Transforming Global Sourcing into a Socio-Economic Endeavor
Impact Sourcing, a new concept in the sourcing world revolves around the premise of creating social impact through the economic lever of Global Sourcing.
Emerging Models in Infrastructure Management
The rapid pace of technology growth has led to emergence of several new models of IT Infrastructure delivery and consequently,management practices.
The Case for Nearshoring: Why and How the New Normal will shift Sourcing Dynamics
Economic uncertainty and emergence of alternative souring models has seen the shift towards a balanced sourcing portfolio.
Latin America: Service Providers at crossroads
Latin America has enjoyed the last couple of years with significant growth in the outsourcing sector. However with this growth in the market and the changing sourcing dynamics, are the Latin American service providers geared up to enough to enjoy a sustainable growth?
Capacity Building in IT/BPO Sector- A Perspective
In the past two decades, the world has experienced rapid growth in the IT/BPO sector. It touches the lives of millions of people worldwide and is a source of livelihood for many. In recent times, some countries have been able to exploit this sector and transform their econ-omies from a stagnant and depressed state to a vibrant and rapidly growing one.
China's Outsourcing Market - A Perspective
China's market for the outsourcing of technology services (outsourcing services) has experienced faster growth. Over the past 5 years, both foreign IT service providers and home grown IT and BPO service providers have established and expanded business operations in China primarily to serve domestic and East Asian region customers.
Sourcing Drivers 2011: Realigning Business for the New Normal
Organizations are pursuing outsourcing today to gain more than just cost savings. But will the same old sourcing strategies be relevant in a world where the economy is in constant turbulence? In this note we take a look at the Top 5 Sourcing Drivers for 2011 that we believe will help unlock greater value for your organization and form the basis of more sustainable sourcing practices.
Cloud Computing - Impact on Business & Outsourcing
The recent economic downturn and pressures on IT budgets have evolved a creative new business model in the form of Cloud Computing. This paper by Dr. Pradeep K.Mukherji, President & Managing Partner, Avasant Asia discusses Cloud Computing and its implications on today's businesses and outsourcing.
Data Center Management In a Shared, Multi-Customer Environment
The management of today's data centers is becoming increasingly complex. Data center managers are charged with optimizing resources and minimizing capital-intensive upgrades, at the same time they are grappling with how best to incorporate new technologies like cloud computing, virtualisation and new data storage applications.
Compete or Cooperate? Bridging the Nearshore - Offshore Divide
Nearshoring is here to stay and the Americas region is brimming with cost competitive and competent destinations, each vying to be the next big thing. But the looming question is, will these contenders co-exist with the larger and more mature offshore destinations or is this a zero sum game?
Africa - The Next Outsourcing Frontier
Countries across Africa are vying for position as competitive destinations for IT/ BPO by promoting low-cost labor and nurturing conditions for the development of world class IT and public infrastructure. In this article, Dr. P.K.Mukherji highlights the vast African opportunity and how government, and the private sector alike can participate in the same.
BPO Capacity Development Strategies for Developing Countries
Comprehensive insights into the opportunities presented by BPO as well as an ideal path forward for leveraging such opportunities for the developing nation is considered. The article provides a detailed overview of the market opportunity, potential benefits to developing nations, key selection drivers, conducting self-assessments and, the final development of an Investment Promotion Strategy.
US Economic Slowdown and its Challenges To the Indian Outsourcing Industry
Financial distress due to the global credit bubble and the accelerated growth of the Indian economy has led to Indian Rupee appreciation. Ultimately, the Indian Outsourcing Industry is under significant challenge. This Avasant article discusses the challenges and possible strategies that the Indian IT/ITES industry may adopt to overcome or mitigate these challenges.
The Next Wave of Outsourcing: Remote Infrastructure Management
The rapid evolution of remote server-management technologies and IT architectures, changes in customer behaviors and demand patterns; and developments within the provider and offshore supply environment is propelling the industry toward accelerated adoption of Remote Infrastructure Management.
The Next Frontier of Global Sourcing
Managed Engineering Services are an exciting new offshore outsourcing opportunity, especially for India. Based on current demand patterns, the market is expected to grow better than 40 percent over the next five years. However, increasing resource constraints need to be addressed quickly through privately funded education and training programs to ensure the promise of this growing segment is kept.