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From brainstorming to crowdsourcing, more and more companies are looking to tap into the collective intelligence of masses to solve their business problems. Lufthansa Cargo has taken crowd-sourcing a step further and has created a public co-innovation platform primarily targeted at finding innovative solutions for its supply chain. Lufthansa Cargo has launched Air Cargo Innovation Challenge and is [...]

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Move over outsourcing! Indians are creating jobs for Americans!!

by Aseem Rastogi
Obama Outsourcing Jobs

America has for long been critical of Indians taking up jobs meant to be theirs. So much so that Obama has always criticised companies who first offer jobs to Indians and then their own citizens. He has introduced measures like higher taxes for companies who have branches in India and also brought down incentives for [...]

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Anti-offshoring bill blocked in Senate – Obama’s anti outsourcing rhetoric stopped in its tracks?

by Aseem Rastogi

Barack Obama has been critical of Indian outsourcing industry even before he came to the fold as the President. Be it in education or in the outsourcing industry he has always looked for opportunities to try to better Indians or go one up as the case may be. Nothing wrong with that – Except for [...]

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India remains Top Outsourcing destination by large Margin for American Companies…

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Even as talks of Outsourcing centered around recent ban by Ohio state – India remains at the top and most preferred Outsourcing Destination by large private U.S Corporations. According to recent survey released by Cap Gemini in partnership with Harris International, India has over 60 percent of the Outsourcing Market share in U.S. China …

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Ohio Bans Outsourcing – Another blow for Indian Software companies

by Arun Prabhudesai

The U.S state of Ohio has now banned outsourcing of Government projects to any off-shoring companies outside of U.S. The Ohio Governor has gone ahead and declared: “No Public Money should be spent on services provided Offshore. The purchase of offshore services with public funds undermines Economic Development, job creation and …

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China taking giant strides in Outsourcing services!

by Viral Dholakia
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The growth stories witnessed in India and China over the past decade can easily standout as torchbearers and growth engines of the world economy. While China excelled as the global manufacturing hub, India proudly emerged a low-cost outsourcing giant. But, a few startling facts suggests that China seems to be covering the grounds hard and [...]

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Top Outsourcing Cities in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai
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India has reiterated its position as the top Outsourcing Destination in the world – 6 out of 8 cities figure in the list of Top Outsourcing Cities in the world according to the report – Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities -  jointly released by CyberMedia and Tholons Research group. Here …

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Top 10 Riskiest Outsourcing locations in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai
Outsourcing Risk

We have published number of posts over last couple of years on , best managed outsourcing companies and , but this list is exactly opposite to that.

This list gives you the riskiest cities to outsource your work. If you are looking to outsource your work to any of these countries, think twice !

This list has been published by Black Book of Outsourcing who have been doing it for last 3 years.

The rankings of the riskiest places are based on factors like high terrorist or rebel target threats, uncontrolled environment waste and pollution, corruption and organised crime, unstable currency, geopolitical conditions and unsecured networks and technology.

Here are the top 10 riskiest cities for outsourcing.

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Top 100 Outsourcing Companies of 2009

by Arun Prabhudesai

Here is the list of Top 100 Outsourcing Vendors in the world categoorized by their strengths. This is the Latest 2009 rankings for Outsourcing Companies released by IAOP.

In May this year , we had written a post on top 100 outsourcing companies of 2009, where we had actually tried to put the list of Top Outsourcing companies together, before the IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing professionals) has actually announced the list.

But the IAOP representative got back to us saying that was inaccurate.  Now they have actually released the list (actually more than a month back), and yes our list had missed out on some of rankings.

Trak.in has actually been releasing Top Outsourcing companies list since last 2 years and it is actually quite Interesting to see the companies go up and down!

Here are our previous years Top 100 Outsourcing Companies list

Top 100 Outsourcing Companies of 2007

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Top 50 Outsourcing Destinations in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai
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.India is miles ahead of the rest when it comes to its popularity as a offshoring destination. China is making progress, but so far India has managed to keep the threat at bay.

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Although the top order looks pretty much settled the dynamics of lower order are visibly changing.

According to A.T. Kearney’s Global Services Location Index 2009 (GSLI), a ranking of the most attractive offshoring destinations, Central/Eastern Europe is falling off the radar while Southeast Asia and Middle East countries are gaining popularity.

Following are the current 2009 rankings of top 50 most preferred Outsourcing destinations in the world

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Outsourcing the un-outsourcable

by Sriram Vadlamani
Legal Outsourcing India

Now the western countries and especially the US is looking to outsource many of the unlikely industries – even those industries which were thought to be untouchables or the un-outsourcables! As Thomas Friedman said in his book, there are fungible jobs and non-fungible jobs. Non-fungible jobs are the jobs that cannot be outsourced and …

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Top 50 Best Managed Outsourcing Vendors of 2009 or are they?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Black Book of Outsourcing has been publishing the top outsourcing companies in world for a few years now and this year was no exception. They have recently published the list for 2009 as well.

I am actually not a big fan of Black Book of Outsourcing list, simply because, if you compare 2007, 2008 and this years list, it will be very clear to you.

I have been following this BBO best managed Outsourcing vendor list for 3 years in a row now, and the amount of changes in the ranking is just astonishing. I can understand 3-4 changes up and down, but if you compare all 3 years lists – they very different from each other !

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India Inc added 300,000 jobs in the US. What was all the fuss about then?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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For all the outsourcing rhetoric and Say no to Bangalore slogans, India Inc has added 300,000 jobs in the US. As per the India Brand Equity foundation study India Inc created 30000 jobs and contributed $105 billion to the US economy between 2004 and 2007. India Inc is too broad a …

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Obama’s tailor might be outsourced

by Sriram Vadlamani
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Obama’s tailor isn’t exactly outsourced, but that title satisfied my ego. Hartmax a Chicago based tailoring company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2009. Hartmax has tailored the tux, which Obama wore on the inauguration day. And Hartmax is officially the tailor of Obama. Hartmax is in deep debt and put itself for [...]

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Infosys fired 2100 employees. But, are we missing the big picture?

by Sriram Vadlamani

Forbes has recently published its Global 2000 companies list and placed Infosys at 891. Not only that as per Forbes, Infosys is among the companies that are hiring along with TCS and Wipro. Quite contrary to what Forbes has said, Infosys has actually fired 2100 employees for poor performance. Some of these employees …

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