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News Offshoring is benefiting companies, countries and economies on both sides of the debate, according to attendees at the Better Management Live Conference in Las Vegas this week. Technology companies in Europe and the US claim the offshoring 'kick...
[22 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet Offshoring? Which companies are offshoring? The trades unions aren't convinced either and have threatened strikes over offshoring although many are now accepting the reality of the situation and putting their effort into securing the best deal for...
[11 May 2004]
News Offshoring is viewed with increasing ambivalence in the IT industry, according to the exclusive silicon.com 2007 Skills Survey. A third of respondents to the survey agree or strongly agree with the statement 'I feel that offshoring is a threat to...
[21 Aug 2007]
News Verwaayen praised the development and innovation of key offshore locations including China and India as "better and cheaper" than their western counterparts and warned the naysayers to accept the offshoring trend and move on.
[02 Jun 2005]
Leader Technology union Amicus said it doesn't "welcome" the offshoring of jobs but has an agreement with Barclays in which the employer must "maximise redundancy" and offer "the best voluntary redundancy packages".
[19 Jul 2005]
News Offshoring IT services to India can bring big benefits - but there are pitfalls for the unwary, according to silicon.com readers. For more advice, our special report offers offshoring tips from CIOs. In response to our Inside India special report a...
[17 Apr 2007]
Comment Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and elsewhere will be appearing on silicon.com during the coming weeks. But it is the customer backlash that is now gaining prominence, with a controversial report by call-centre industry...
[05 Jul 2004]
Comment Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. More expert comment on offshoring: But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership Forum are emphasising it's much more than that, reports silicon.com editorial board member...
[18 Feb 2008]
News The offshoring of call centre activities will continue apace according to a new Datamonitor report which explores the pros and cons of outsourcing call centre work overseas to certain countries and workforces.
[02 Nov 2004]
News Digby Jones, director general of the CBI dismissed those who view offshoring as "naïve". Offshoring is now part-and-parcel of doing business in the global economy," he said in a statement. He argued that offshoring means greater productivity and...
[08 Nov 2004]
whitepaper The business practice of offshoring focuses on the relocation of labor-intensive service industry functions to locations remote to the business center; it's prime benefit is reduces labor costs. It has been enabled by the improvement in...
[30 Apr 2004]
whitepaper As the offshoring debate rages on many fronts, often lost in the rhetoric is the main rule of offshoring: You should offshore only those functions that can be done better, faster, more cheaply and without unmanageable risk.
[01 Jun 2004]
News IEEE-USA, the US wing of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, said Thursday that the 'offshoring' trend also contributes to high unemployment among US techies. But it's going to be difficult to remain technologically competitive...
[19 Mar 2004]
News Arguments against offshoring have hit the headlines this week, with activists picketing a US conference on sending business abroad but this public outcry far from represents the general mood. So while offshoring may be fine with the British public...
[17 Sep 2003]
News Speaking at an offshoring debate held by the National Outsourcing Association, Malcolm McKinnon, head of the Department of Trade and Industry's Trade in Services unit, denied that those UK staff displaced by offshore outsourcing would end up in...
[04 Nov 2004]
News The offshoring of IT jobs is a growing trend that not even legislation can stop, according to a new research report from consultancy Frost & Sullivan. Given that offshoring is not going away, Frost & Sullivan suggests the developed countries...
[11 Jan 2005]
Comment Offshoring may be the right option for your company, but for the project to be a success you've got to do it right. At Ariadne Capital, we consider offshoring a good option for companies with at least 15 per cent of their cost base dependent upon...
[07 Jul 2004]
News But this offshoring trend is likely to change in the near future. He said in a statement: "There are different risk factors to consider when evaluating outsourcing, offshoring, onshoring and nearshoring.
[04 Jul 2007]
News Indeed, one of the conclusions drawn from this week's debate, which featured Nasscom, the DTI, the union Amicus, India-based research company Evalueserve and other experts, is that training and offshoring must go hand in hand.
[12 Mar 2004]
Comment Robert O'Leary, the executive director of administrative systems at Stanford, who has overseen the outsourcing deal with Infosys, talks to us about why he chose this route, how it's going and the offshoring phenomenon.silicon.com: What was the...
[21 Nov 2006]
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