BusinessWeek's article "Can Kerry Sell Kerrynomics?" might sound promising to anti-outsourcing activists. In Detroit, the city that is suffering astronomically from the outsourcing of...
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by on March 26, 2004
Boston-based IDG Ventures has signed agreement to fund its new publishing division in Vietnam.......
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by on March 25, 2004
By 2007, IT outsourcing in Europe will reach $63 billion, which is currently growing at a compound annual rate of 7.6 percent from 2002 to 2007.......
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by on March 23, 2004
S. Gopalakrishnan, COO and co-founder and member of the board, Infosys Technologies Limited, as quoted in Express India said, " So far there has not been any business impact of the US legislation...
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by on March 23, 2004
"Show me the jobs!," Silicon Valley workers shouted on TV last night. As 200,000 Silicon Valley computer workers already lost their jobs to offshore outsourcing, a Crusade to call for the...
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by on March 23, 2004
According to a study in The McKinsey Quarterly as quoted in Intranet Journal, offshore outsourcing has at least four advantages for the U.S. economy.......
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In Senator John Kerry's letter to President Bush in December, he urged the goverment not to support trade agreements that could place American labors at a disadvantage position. Source:...
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Amongst the controversial issues arising from outsourcing trend, there are strong positive aspects that would increase the value of U.S. workers.......
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by on March 22, 2004
The Dell case might be an exception, but the best practices are yet to arrive. Outsourcing trend is in its early development stage, in which many issues are to be addressed properly.......
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George W. Bush supports outsourcing while presidential candidate John Kerry seems to see it as the culprit of slow job growth in the United States. I haven't been fond of Bush lately, especially...
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The debate on the impact of outsourcing to U.S. economy and employment outlook continues to dominate the 2004 election campaign. Many presidential candidates have made it a part of their...
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Quoted from Channel News Asia, the U.S. Senate has approved a bill Calling a ban on using government money, which comes from tax payers, to fund outsourced projects.......
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by on March 16, 2004
Quoted from Silicon.com, in 'Truth about Offshore Outsourcing' debate at the Institute of Directors earlier this week, Nasscom VP Sunil Mehta said: "There has been some anecdotal evidence...
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by on March 16, 2004
Quoted from Economist, the United States is the largest user of offshore outsourcing suppliers. The second largest consumer is the Great Britain.......
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by on March 16, 2004
TubbyDev.net is an informative offhore programming outsourcing site in french. Created by Pierre M�chentel, he talks about the interesting outlook of outsourcing opportunities in Europe.......
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Outsourcing might have caused some stir in the economy and created an on-going debate among policy makers, analysts and corporations. Regardless of the cliche that it has many unfavorable consequences...
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by on March 14, 2004
The risk factors to be taken into consideration prior to making the decision to outsource to a particular supplier are: - Supplier readiness (expertise, quality and focus) - Country risk factors...
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by on March 14, 2004
One of the most important issues that most companies take into consideration is the wage rate in the outsourcing destination. Wages in India and China, for instance, are 70% less than in the United...
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by on March 11, 2004
Most jobs can be outsourced now. At the moment, types of jobs ideal for offshore outsourcing are......
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by on March 11, 2004
The Outsourcing Institute helps bring buyers, suppliers and influencers together....
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by on March 11, 2004
The latest data according to Forrester Research, McKinsey & Co. Inc; Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at UC Berkeley on the outlook of job outsourcing....
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by on March 10, 2004
At the beginning, only the manufacturing of limited physical products, such as fashion, furniture and electronic goods are outsourced. Now, it's almost anything you can think of....
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