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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on January 27, 2010
In a decision that will likely shake up the service provider community, and may embolden aggrieved customers, particularly those in the UK, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) won a 200 million pound ver...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on October 6, 2009
Recent LPO news has included a number of press releases announcing that a Magic Circle firm has entered into an agreement with this-or-that global legal outsourcing firm. What's behind this trend?...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on October 6, 2009
Recent LPO news has included a number of press releases announcing that a Magic Circle firm has entered into an agreement with this-or-that global legal outsourcing firm. What's behind this trend?...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on September 24, 2009
In yesterday's Business Week, Mehul Srivastava described a decline in salaries and turnover in Indian firms, no doubt caused by the declining economy. That certainly parallels the global recession...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 18, 2009
In Section 40 of a recent "Caritas in Veritate" produced by the Vatican, Pope Benedict warns that business enterprises have lost ties to stakeholders, instead being only answerable to stockh...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 2, 2009
Here's an interesting article on outsourcing trends (made more interesting because I am quoted in it).
In any case, I believe that outsourcing could be at the leading edge of the recovery, as car...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on June 9, 2009
I don't usually quote press releases - they tend to be speculative, at best, and over-hyped, at worst. However, the process offered here is interesting - not so much for its actual presence in the...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on April 15, 2009
Proving once again that the outsourcing marketplace is not immune to the recession, IT outsourcing giant, Infosys, has seen a downturn in its business - its first since 1981. (See article here)
Rival...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on March 6, 2009
The rumor mill is swirling around Satyam. On March 7, the Australian web site, IT News reported that IBM was in talks to buy Satyam. This is really interesting and looks like it could be a good, oppo...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on March 2, 2009
In today's Tech Trader Daily section of Barron's a pessimistic view of the Indian outsourcing industry this year. Wachovia's Edward Caso points out that "demand remains lackluster and...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on March 1, 2009
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on January 10, 2009
As you've all seen by now, Satyam (one of the biggest Indian-based outsourcing companies) is in the midst of an earnings misstatement crisis. Like many other companies, Satyam was subject to subst...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on December 1, 2008
Last week's terror attacks in Mumbai could have sweeping effects on the outsourcing industry over the next year. The brazen targeting of westerners by militants potentially linked to Al Qaida, occ...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on October 20, 2008
As today's ZDNet Asia makes clear, the economic slowdown and its effect on outsourcing in the financial segment, has crossed the Atlantic and is lowering the overall deal flow in Europe, too. Whil...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on October 9, 2008
Citi has sold its Indian captive to Tata and Lehman has sold its Indian captive to Nomura in two of the largest (and what may be two of the only major) sales of US-owned captives. See this article in ...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on September 4, 2008
In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology article, findings of the Black Book of Outsourcing were discussed. In this year's survey, the Black Book discovered a trend of moving work back ...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on August 19, 2008
It looks as if Citigroup may sell its captive Indian offshore unit to Tata Consultancy in the near future (see article). As one of the pioneers in captive offshore facilities, this is somewhat of a la...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on August 8, 2008
While it is easy for us in the US and UK to think that nearly all outsourcing is in North America or Europe (and that most is happening in the English-speaking world), this story shows how outsourcing...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on August 1, 2008
Today, it was announced that Deutsche Post World Net has backed out of a proposed IT outsourcing deal with HP. The primary reason stated was that the "savings were not there."
Digging deepe...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 28, 2008
In a recent ComputerWeekly.com article, the London-based law firm of Pinsent Masons suggested that the current credit crunch will lead to a an increase in the number of re-negotiations, reductions-in-...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 23, 2008
In an article published today on Live Mint (a Wall Street Journal blog), the somewhat confusing reports of (a) a drop in outsourcing business, and (b) a record quarter, are rationalized.
Siddharth Pa...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 16, 2008
Given the current poor economic climate, one would expect rapid growth in offshore outsourcing contracts as companies struggle to find ways to cut cost. However, such exponential growth has been diffi...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on June 27, 2008
It is somewhat ironic that this author, an American attorney sitting in a cafe in Los Angeles, is writing for a new media blog about outsourcing while an old media stalwart, the orange county Register...
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by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on June 8, 2008
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The news out this week is that IBM just landed a 10-year, $324 million dollar outsourcing deal with Bristol-Meyers SQUIBB (BMY). What is remarkable about ...
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by Carol Kendrick on May 9, 2008
Recent research report indicated that IT Outsourcing is the "highest growth area" which shows tremendous spending rate for companies adapting this kind of business strategy.
According to t...
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by Carol Kendrick on October 30, 2007
Outsourcing is growing and one thing that could contribute to its growth is VoIP (Voice over internet protocol).
The emergence of such technology is considered as a factor because of the convenience ...
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by Carol Kendrick on October 30, 2007
The Philippines have exceeded its outsourcing prediction.
This was the general view of the research report conducted by the advisory firm XMG. According to the report, the Philippines could experien...
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by Carol Kendrick on October 29, 2007
Contrary to reports showing that outsourcing is dwindling down, a research report shows that outsourcing deals are indeed growing and actually have reached the status of "mega deals".
Here...
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by Carol Kendrick on October 24, 2007
Based on the research report done by Forrester Research, the number of British companies adapting IT outsourcing is larger as compared to other countries in Europe.
The research firm also mentioned ...
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by Carol Kendrick on October 20, 2007
Outsourcing adviser TPI revealed that the value of outsourcing deals that are signed in this quarter is actually low as compared last year. Aside from that, outsourcing companies in the US also exper...
