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by Scott Wilson on March 1, 2010
The cyclical dust-up over whether anywhere in the world can possibly compete with Silicon Valley as earth-mother for technology startups has kicked off again, this time involving New York City as th...
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by Scott Wilson on November 2, 2009
Monica Harrington at TechFlash posts on "Innovation: Nine hurdles facing America as a center of tech" discussing our country's challenges in maintaining an education system, and therefore workforce, c...
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by Scott Wilson on October 12, 2009
So says a fresh report from McKinsey highlighting recent survey results suggesting that leading offshore outsourcing providers have not only benefited from the cost-cutting frenzy that has occupied th...
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by Scott Wilson on May 20, 2009
TechFlash has posted an interview with CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featu...
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by Scott Wilson on March 9, 2009
There's no question that the economic crisis creates an environment with the potential, or even likelihood, of great upheaval for the outsourcing market. You can find all perspectives on just what...
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by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2009
Not really fiction, but certainly stranger than anything I was imagining when I wrote this entry on the dismal prospects for Indian off-shoring firms last week, singling out Satyam particularly in lig...
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by Scott Wilson on January 2, 2009
In a downturn it's inevitable that those firms which are luckier or better prepared than their competitors will take advantage of their positioning to eat the lunch, or other savory delectables, o...
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by Scott Wilson on December 19, 2008
I was just getting ready to give up on finding some real, sinister meaning behind last January's suspicious undersea telecommunications cable breaches when all of a sudden, it's all happening ...
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by Scott Wilson on December 1, 2008
Despite commitments from some large outsourcing players to continue their India-based operations, a more widespread perception of the dangers raised by the Mumbai attacks which I wrote about last week...
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by Scott Wilson on November 26, 2008
Not to minimize the very real human tragedy and other geo-political implications of the terror attacks currently paralyzing the Indian city of Mumbai, but the first technology related thought to cross...
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by Scott Wilson on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused ...
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by Scott Wilson on September 27, 2008
I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place behi...
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by Scott Wilson on September 22, 2008
I suggested several months ago that India-based off-shoring operations might have something to worry about in new competition from China as a center for technology outsourcing, and today there is more...
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by Scott Wilson on September 4, 2008
It's time for another episode of "Duelling Analysts," where we here at the CIO Weblog take two analyst reports from competing firms, released on the same day and on the same general topi...
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by Scott Wilson on July 30, 2008
With the recent spurt of growth in the Chinese IT industry already poised to encroach on India's undisputed position atop the global offshoring dogpile, the latest developments in Bangalore are su...
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by Scott Wilson on July 21, 2008
I wouldn't have thought so, looking at any of the numbers in recent off-shoring trends: revenue up, customer numbers up, hiring up, and the traditional driver of off-shore outsourcing, domestic co...
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by Scott Wilson on June 23, 2008
Indian off-shoring services giant Wipro will expand their existing product design services to include actual manufacturing of prototypes, according to CIO Magazine.
Wipro plans to work with third-par...
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by Scott Wilson on June 12, 2008
Now; why can't someone do this to clear up my favorite modern-day undersea mystery?
Still keeping my eyes and ears open for any additional information. I continue to be surprised that the story h...
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by Scott Wilson on June 11, 2008
In a move which is good for business both coming and going, Microsoft has indicated that it intends to commit an additional $20 million dollars to its Project Shiksha in India, which trains school tea...
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by Scott Wilson on May 22, 2008
Why not? It sounds like the new frontier, reading this ComputerWorld article on opportunities for Mandarin speaking folks with managerial experience in the burgeoning Chinese IT market.
While India h...
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by Scott Wilson on April 15, 2008
You may recall the disruption of Internet service to India and the Middle East which caused a great deal of consternation (but little practical degradation of off-shored services) last January/Februar...
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by Scott Wilson on March 25, 2008
BT has announced today that it will be setting up a global operations center in Gurgaon, India, employing 300 locals and joining similar centers in Hungary, China, and Brazil in the global telecom pow...
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by Scott Wilson on March 14, 2008
For a story with such import as that of the four cut cables affecting traffic to the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent in January and early February this year there sure has been very little fo...
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by Scott Wilson on February 20, 2008
Tata Consultancy Services has landed a $120 million, multi-year deal to handle "comprehensive" IT services for the Chrysler corporation.
Although Tata's Manufacturing vertical is alread...
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by Scott Wilson on February 6, 2008
Whatever concerns may have been sparked by the recent undersea communication cable service disruptions do not seem to have affected anyone's plans for investing in heavy growth in India-based IT c...
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by Scott Wilson on February 4, 2008
Sure, some might call me irresponsible, but the ninja theory is at least as credible as some of the others floating around out there right now attempting to make some sense of the suspicious rash of u...
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by Scott Wilson on February 3, 2008
It's looking so far as if Indian outsourcing companies have dodged the bullet with respect to the potential catastrophe hinted at by the severing of two vital undersea data cables carrying traffic...
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by Scott Wilson on February 2, 2008
I've heard quite a few arguments regarding the ethics of off-shore outsourcing, and quite a few others about the ethics of soaring gas and oil prices in a year of record profits by oil companies. ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 31, 2008
The undersea cables that carry the vast majority of Internet data between continents have often been seen as potential weak links in the system; expensive to install, complicated to troubleshoot and f...
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by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2008
Although most people tend to relate off-shore IT outsourcing market growth to Stateside staff reductions, the latest suggestion is that the growth is being driven more by demand from other off-shore o...
