Outsourcing to Africa at The Outsourcing Weblog

Source: www.outsourcingnetwork.netAfrica is trying to make a name for itself in the global offshore outsourcing marketplace. As with other locations in the world, the citizens of the African continent are very interested in the billions of dollars that multinational corporations can offer in trade for services. What makes africa a viable option? Language for one. Command of the English language is generally strong. In addition, while a North American might detect [...] Read More


South Africa Might Win Europe's IT Jobs at The Outsourcing Weblog

abacus, a South African-based IT recruitment company, stated that about 1.2 million IT jobs in Europe will move offshore within the next decade. Moreover, most of these jobs will be lost by the United Kingdom. Org Geldenhuys, CEO of Abacus, said that according to Forrester Research, 56,000 UK jobs were expected to be offshored to non-European countries in 2004. The number of offshored jobs will rise to about 760,000 by 2015. [...] Read More


Africa Joins the Call Center Hype at The Outsourcing Weblog

Call centers are considered as one of the most outsourced functions in a business. This is also the reason why countries like India and Philippines have a growing outsourcing Industry. It also seems like that Africa also wants to be known as a favorable outsourcing destination through developing their own potential as a call center provider. In Uganda, the ministry of Education and Global Management Consortium-Trade Information Network (GMC-TIN) recently formed [...] Read More


South Africa will be represented at the APICS conference in Orlando, Florida at Supplychainer

South Africa will be represented at the international Association for Operations Management (Apics) conference in Orlando, Florida, later this year, by Barloworld Logistics operations manager Vince Boswell, who will be presenting his case study on "Real World Inventory Optimization" to the delegates, an Association for Operations Management of Southern Africa (Sapics) statement said recently. According to the Engineering News, the study was aimed at companies that were planning an inventory optimization [...] Read More


Biotech's Challenge In Africa at The Biotech Weblog

Nature's Sept. 27 issue of Drug Discoveryruns an article discussing the prospects of establishing the biotech industry in Africa. "It's going to be a slow process building biotech in Africa," says Lawrence Kent, director of international programs at the not-for-profit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri.Kent says it's been difficult to even convince African governments to accept Western biotech volunteers and Western money for biotech programs. "[Government officials] [...] Read More