Offshoring

Best practices, tips, how tos, trends and updates on offshoring, including risk management, cultural differences, and risk levels of offshoring destination.

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10 Best (and Worst) IT Offshoring Options for English Proficiency

CIOs struggle with communication and language issues offshore, so it's good news that global business English proficiency is increasing. However, some countries are further along than others. Here are the 10 best and the 10 worst countries for English proficiency. Full Story »
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7 More IT Outsourcing Lessons From Offshoring Pioneers

In part 2 of our two-part series on IT offshoring lessons, we look at seven more examples of successful IT outsourcing offshoring best practices.

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7 Lessons of the Offshoring Pioneers

The need to remain competitive has kept offshoring an essential part of nearly every company's sourcing strategy. The questions that remain are what and how to offshore. Offshore pioneers who have navigated the changing IT offshoring terrain have some answers based on a decade's worth of lessons. In part 1 of a two-part series, we look at seven of those lessons.

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Wipro's IT Services Business Posts Slow Growth in Difficult Market

A slow market and currency volatility affected the company's IT services business

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Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks to Crackdown on Offshore Outsourcing

The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill would make major changes to the H-1B visa that are certain to upset some and likely please others.

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Infosys' Profit Drops in 'challenging' Market

The company said it was hit by slow decisions by customers in an uneven recovery

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H-1B Demand This Year Will Be Fast, Furious

The U.S. begins accepting new H-1B visa petitions on Monday, April 1, and fast demand is expected. This is going to be followed by much fury.

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Crowdsourcing Offers a Tightly Focused Alternative to Outsourcing

Crowdsourcing isn't likely to overtake traditional IT outsourcing in the foreseeable future, but for well-defined, repeatable tasks that can be pulled out of workflows and plugged back in, it's an attractive option for enterprise IT and product development.

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Plan to Hike H-1B Cap to 300,000 Seen Dead; 130,000 Cap Still Possible

The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is expected to include an H-1B cap hike and a higher fee structure aimed at offshore outsourcers.

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H-1B Reform Bill Bolstered by Testimony of Mostly Male Visas

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley has re-introduced an H-1B reform bill that once again takes aim at offshore outsourcers, and on Monday he got more ammunition for that battle.

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Explore the Tale of Tier 2 Cities for IT Outsourcing Options

If you're not thinking about Thiruvananthapuram, India today, you might be soon. Along with Bhubaneswar, Indore, Madurai, Mangalore and Secunderabad, just to name a few other second-tier IT service provider possibilities.

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Lawmakers Hear From CEO Opponents of H-1Bs

In a closed door meeting this week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staff took the H-1B visa debate in a different direction. They invited the heads of some U.S.-based IT services companies, competing directly with offshore outsourcing providers, for a frank discussion away from the public eye.

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Security Concerns Bedevil Chinese Outsourcing

U.S. companies might hesitate to send IT work to China in light of new reports on cyberespionage programs there.

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Tata agrees to pay $30 million to settle employees' lawsuit in the US

In a class-action lawsuit, the employees alleged that the outsourcer made unauthorized deductions in wages

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6 Hot Offshore IT Outsourcing Markets Offer New Options

Typically, when you think offshore IT outsourcing you think, India. However, many emerging countries are getting aggressive offering a variety of perks in order to win new IT outsourcing business. Here are six IT and business process outsourcing destinations worth a look in 2013.