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Indian Internet dilemma!

by rabigupta on March 13, 2010

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I know each one of you is expecting an IPL post here, but I believe that you will be reading this post only if- 1. You are not watching IPL or 2. You are not watching IPL over youtube :). It’s amazing how this internet industry has transformed and [...]

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Crowdsourcing done perfectly !

by Arun Prabhudesai
Lays crowdsourcing commercial

I have been wanting to write about this since I first saw the Lays Ad campaign featuring Saif Ali Khan. Do you remember the artist tattooing kareepatta on Saif’s hands ? That lays Ad has impressed me a lot – It is actually much more than just an advertisement. This is probably the first [...]

6 comments December 24, 2009 Continue Reading →

IBM takes Crowdsourcing to the next level with its Real Time Translation Project

by Ankit Agarwal
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If you thought crowdsourcing only worked for creating marketing/design campaigns and soliciting community feedback, think again? IBM is changing that and taking crowdsourcing to the next level with its latest project. Christened N.Fluent , the project is a text translation based project which has been internally crowdsourced among IBM employees.The project is currently used company’s [...]

1 comment December 5, 2009 Continue Reading →

A branding faux pas by DGCA – and why crowd sourcing may not for everyone

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I am a staunch believer of Crowd Sourcing or the power of many. The potential of tapping into the minds and creativity is huge and can bear fruits. More so, if the initiative is for defining the Brand who better than the end user/customer.

In the end, it is the customer perception that defines the [...]

7 comments November 15, 2009 Continue Reading →

Unilever goes Crowd Sourcing for their new TV & Ad Campaign

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I have been a staunch supporter of Crowd sourcing ever since I hopped on to twitter. The ability to utilize the brains of a group of people collectively for a solution is indeed powerful. In my previous discussion on Crowdsourcing providing the winning edge , the discussions hinted that crowd sourcing works for e-businesses, Web [...]

6 comments November 2, 2009 Continue Reading →

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 [...]

1 comment October 21, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finally the mad rush for H1Bs is over !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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This probably is for the first time in the decade that H1B visa are under a threat of not filling its full quota of H1b visa’s. More than 20,000 H1B visa’s are still vacant and there are less than 3 weeks remaining to fill that up.

(update: These remaining  H1B Visa’s can be filled up till [...]

5 comments September 10, 2009 Continue Reading →

Is shifting vendors that plug and play?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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BP has reduced its IT vendors from 40 to 5. IBM, Accenture and the three Indian musketeers – Wipro, TCS and Infosys – are the chosen five. It takes a lot of gumption for any company to reduce the vendor dependency. When I first heard the news, I was like, [...]

6 comments August 27, 2009 Continue Reading →

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.

0 comments August 7, 2009 Continue Reading →

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

3 comments July 20, 2009 Continue Reading →

Top 50 Outsourcing Destinations in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai
India-outsourcing-offshoring

.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

8 comments July 9, 2009 Continue Reading →

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 [...]

7 comments July 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

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 !

4 comments June 30, 2009 Continue Reading →

All roads lead to rural India

by Sriram Vadlamani
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From cars to watches to mobile phones to computers all the manufacturers and service providers are vying for one big pie – The rural India. At least 70% of the Indian population is living in rural areas. That is some handsome number for everyone to look at. India has just crossed [...]

4 comments June 25, 2009 Continue Reading →

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 [...]

3 comments June 18, 2009 Continue Reading →
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