Latest Reports

• 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.

  July, 2011

• Africa and Surviving the Global Recession: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant focusses on Africa-The Last Frontier in an interview with Bruce McCracken, Sr. Research Analyst (Horses for Sources). Bruce discusses on rise of Africa to the global economy. We will also speak with Bob Randolph,CFO Avasant, who would discuss on surviving the global recession.

  June, 2011

• Cloud Computing: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant focused on the phenomenon of cloud computing and how it is altering the way business think about their IT requirements. We interviewed David Mihalchik, who successfully led Google’s effort to be the first provider of cloud computing services to meet the Federal Government’s FISMA standards and Professor Vijay Gurbaxani, who provided us an overview of the economic case behind this latest innovation in technology services.

  April, 2011

• Doing Business in India: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant focuses on India, arguably the epicenter of the changes that have taken place in the technology services industry over the past 2 decades. India has rapidly changed from a developing country to a world economic power that is vying for a seat on the UN Security Council.

  March, 2011

• Globalization of Services: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant was focused on the phenomenon of globalization services and how emerging countries are positioning themselves to be players in the global market for technology services.

  March, 2011

• Business Innovation and Obama Healthcare Reforms: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant had 2 topics; we spoke with author Deepa Prahalad, on the secrets behind why some products succeed, and others fail in the marketplace. We switched gears and spoke with Professor Joe Greco regarding the Obama Health Care Reform law, the most far reaching legislation in the United States enacted in 40 years.

  February, 2011

• 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.

  January, 2011

• 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.

  December, 2010

• Data Center Management In a Shared, Multi-Customer Environment

  This paper is intended to provide an overview of the fundamental elements of data center management in the context of a multi-customer environment, which is generally characteristic of outsource data center providers, but also increasingly similar to in-sourced data centers providing services to multiple internal customers in a best practice, shared services organization model.

  November, 2010

• Development of Technology Services Industry in Nigeria: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant was focused on the phenomenon of globalization services and how emerging countries are positioning themselves to be players in the global market for technology services. We spoke with representatives from CapeSource Technologies Limited, an innovative Nigerian company that is a regional leader in delivering IT and business processing services. We also spoke with a representative from the World Bank, which is actively supporting the development of nascent technology services industries across Africa.

  October, 2010

• Public Sector Outsourcing and Nunavut: GlobeTalk with Avasant

  This episode of GlobeTalk with Avasant was focused on how innovation in the technology services industry is impacting the public sector. We explored the issue of technology outsourcing at the state and local government level. We also looked at how Nunavut is attempting to modernize its telecommunications network in a geographically challenging environment to provide services to a dispersed population.

  October, 2010

• Training Best Way to Improve IT Staff Retention

  (IRVINE, Calif., August 11, 2008) IT organizations with the strongest education and training programs also have the lowest average turnover rates, according to a recently released Computer Economics study.

  August, 2008