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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How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations

IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions. Full Story »
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IT Service Providers and Universities Partner to Develop U.S. Outsourcing Talent

CIO.com talked to a domestic outsourcing provider about partnering with universities to build a domestic outsourcing model, growing dissatisfaction with offshoring, the real problem with Gen Y, and how immigration reform might impact outsourcing in the U.S.

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Immigration Bill Could Hike IT Hiring, Or Send More IT Jobs Offshore

The Senate immigration bill's impact on offshore outsourcing will be disruptive to outsourcers, their customers and potentially to the U.S. IT labor market, according to Gartner.

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Immigration Reform Bill Takes Aim at Indian IT Outsourcing Companies

India's application development and maintenance business will take a hit if a provision of the U.S. Senate immigration bill becomes law, and some experts say the restrictions will drive more outsourcing offshore.

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How India's IT Outsourcing Leaders Can Stay on Top

After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are eight things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.

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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.

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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.