What would happen if China and India were to stop competing and start cooperating instead? An article in Business Standard, an Indian newspaper, explores the possibility and concludes:
There is considerable scope for joint projects as we master the practice of working harmoniously together. … We strongly feel that the India-China relationship is grossly under-realised and the capacities for expansion are enormous.
An article in The Huffington Post takes a broader look and concludes:
Cooperation on the global level is a new requirement in the history of our civilization, and we are not prepared for it. Our institutions and organizations were
On April 6, Sierra Atlantic Inc., an IT services provider recognized for outsourcing Oracle and product engineering solutions, announced that it has acquired Baytree Associates, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based consulting firm and Oracle solutions provider. The deal helps Sierra Atlantic, a Platinum Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), further consolidate its already strong position as one of the top Oracle solutions and managed service providers.
But let’s look at the bigger picture. Sierra Atlantic’s strategy is a great example of how the service provider landscape is quickly changing – and why.
I talked with GK Murthy, Sierra Atlantic’s Executive Vice President. The… Read the rest
White House revision of government outsourcing policy leaves some doors open for IT contracts.
Research found Bulgaria is the leading cost-quality location in Europe and also ranks high worldwide.
Henry Kissinger said that the absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. That has been true in outsourcing in recent years. It was marvelously clear that companies could reduce their costs through outsourcing to offshore locations with low-cost labor, especially in India. But now there’s a viable alternative: companies can outsource their work to low-cost nearshore locations.
The cost, time zone, and other advantages from outsourcing to a country that is a “neighbor” and has the same culture are significant. Western European companies have successfully nearshored their work to Eastern European locations for quite a while, and China is a… Read the rest
Trust is something that really trips people up in outsourcing relationships. In my talks with hundreds of executives involved in outsourcing over the last decade, I’m intrigued by the fact that when I ask executives about the trust level in their relationship, some can’t determine if trust is there, some say they thought trust was there but then something happened that indicated otherwise, and most who say trust is key to their success can’t describe how to build or sustain it.
Outsourcing has an inherent challenge that makes trust become crucial to achieving successful outcomes. We’ve developed all sorts of… Read the rest
I know what you’re thinking: That the title of today’s blog post must be a trick since Outsourcing Buzz Blog is presumably a strong advocate for all things outsourcing. You’d be only partly correct. If I could change things, I’d get rid of the term “offshoring.” The term is a lightning rod for do-or-die turf and political struggles, and it no longer embodies what it really is – if it ever did.
Years ago, when companies first began sending their outsourced IT and business processes to India, outsourcing made such big splashes with the stories of cost-savings possible through labor… Read the rest
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