Offshoring Destinations in India: Bangalore
Hailed as the silicon valley of India, Bangalore has even generated a verb in English ‘Bangalored’ which usually refers to someone losing their job to offshoring and outsourcing. With such a notorious reputation of being an offshore job hogger, the city is usually in news for taking up jobs in the U.S. or U.K. Bangalore [...]
Offshoring Destinations in India: Pune
Of all the cities in India, Pune is one of the fastest growing and its growth has been attributed to the burgeoning software industry. The city was earlier known as Poona and was famous for its chauvinistic protests, instability and a largely local populace. However, all that’s changed and the tiny town has now turned [...]
Offshoring Destinations in India: New Delhi
Indian cities can be overwhelming. In fact, this reflection is a cliché that is written over and over again in travel memoirs, magazines and articles. However, every cliché has a bit of truth in it, no matter how tiresome it is. Indeed, New Delhi is one of the most overwhelming of all the cities in [...]
Offshoring Destinations in India: Calcutta
Calcutta (Kolkata) was the capital of India during the British Raj. The British considered Calcutta to be their second most important city after London, in the 19th century. However, disease, congestion and other lack of infrastructure forced the colonial government to move its capital to New Delhi, a newly built city just south of Old [...]
Offshoring Destinations in India: Mumbai
Of all the cities in India, Bombay (Mumbai) is the largest, the most commercial and the most vibrant. The city is also one of the largest in the world and houses several financial institutions of international repute. In fact, Bombay Stock Exchange is one of the oldest stock exchanges in Asia. Even to this day, [...]
The Biblical Metaphor of Amazonian Brazil and IT Offshoring
Brazil is a booming economy which is markedly different form most of the other countries sit is usually compared with. For instance, it has nothing in common with either China or India, usually considered as its competitors. No wonder that Brazil offers new challenges and solutions to offshoring clients who seek results and that too [...]
Looking Back at Recession and Applying Lessons Learned in IT Offshoring
The recession which took the world by storm passed like a slow moving but intense storm. What one must understand is that it did finally pass and when it did, it left us learning new lessons and reconsidering our perceptions, biases and prejudices against all aspects of business life. For instance, it taught most companies [...]
Training Native Employees with New Technologies Can Help Fight Stigma against Offshoring
In a blog post at Computer World, Eric Berridge writes that offshoring industry ad everyone involved in it, whether for or against it need to look towards the IT of future rather of the past. He mentions that social media, cloud computing and other next generation technologies have created newer realities that cannot be wished [...]
Combating Perceived Psychopathic Traits of Business Executives in Outsourcing World
Paul Barry at The Power Index magazine had a few interesting things to say a few days ago. He wrote about an obscure British study from 2005 which compared the psychological profiles of business executives at English corporations with those at UK’s Broadmoor Special Hospital. They were compared against ‘criminally insane’ patients. The study seemed [...]
Fearing Network Security in IT Offshoring
IT security and data management has always been the top most concern of companies that consider outsourcing of jobs to offshore companies. While offshoring has all the ingredients to a successful business plan, it does pose a threat to the security of a company’s information some analysts feel. Their arguments against safety of data revolve [...]
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