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Category: Offshoring

Location, location, location

By admin, March 1, 2010 9:52 am

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…

TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America

By admin, November 2, 2009 5:48 am

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…

Offshoring surviving the recession just fine

By admin, October 12, 2009 12:15 pm

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…

Infosys CEO interviewed

By admin, May 20, 2009 8:08 pm

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…

Whither the call center?

By admin, March 9, 2009 11:59 am

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…

Satyam stranger than fiction

By admin, January 7, 2009 11:06 pm

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…

Feasting on the carcasses of off-shoring firms

By admin, January 2, 2009 6:20 pm

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…

Conspiracy theorist wanted

By admin, December 19, 2008 3:45 pm

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 …

India-Pakistan: Bad for business

By admin, December 1, 2008 2:21 pm

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…

More woes for India-based outsourcing

By admin, November 26, 2008 4:25 pm

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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