The option of using outsourced IT contractors in the Philippines should become more widespread around the world over the coming years, if the industry’s latest predictions are anything to go by. Government officials have released a series of ambitious figures to raise revenue, increase workload and dominate four areas of outsourcing – including IT.
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Tue, January 31 2012 » Business Transformation Trends, Industry Leader Profiles, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
January is an exciting month and being the 1st month of the year, people ponder what would likely be the business scenario for the year. I always look forward on what the experts and research groups may forecast for this year particularly in the outsourcing industry.
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AFRICA has a youthful and enthusiastic population that could tap into global demand for the low-cost, outsourced service delivery that has been successful in India. However, Christopher Steckel, partner at KPMG and chief operating officer of tax for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said recently the key would be an educated, young workforce that [...]
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Tue, January 31 2012 » Business Transformation Trends, Management Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
The Philippines is one of the fastest growing call center outsourcing markets in the world. Thanks to the affordability and quality of the outsourcing services offered by Philippine call centers, several U.S. firms are outsourcing their jobs to this emerging market. The recently proposed bill to curb call center outsourcing within the U.S. will be [...]
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Mon, January 30 2012 » Business Services, Business Transformation Trends, Industry Leader Profiles, On-line Marketing Tools, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
CHICAGO: Worried over the adverse fallout of protectionism, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said if the US stops outsourcing jobs to India, profitability of both the economies will be hurt. “…if US stops outsourcing jobs from India to some extent profitability of the economies will be affected,” Mukherjee said.
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Mon, January 30 2012 » Business Services, Business Transformation Trends, Industry Leader Profiles, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
While western politicians yabber on about bringing jobs back home, third-quarter results for India’s top three IT outsourcers show just how hard it is to reverse the offshoring trend. At Tata Consultancy, the industry leader by revenue, sales jumped by more than a fifth from a year earlier in dollar terms, it said last week. [...]
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Fri, January 27 2012 » Business Transformation Trends, Management Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
The 22 years I spent as a reporter before entering the teaching field left me with a healthy skepticism for any words escaping the lips of politicians. That being said, I was encouraged by President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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Logica has described cloud computing as “the railway of the 21st century”, claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies. Speaking in a joint keynote session with Microsoft’s UK national technology officer Mark Ferrar at Cloud Expo Europe, Logica’s global CTO David King [...]
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