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Offshoring: Canada's Attractiveness: Canada ranks 2nd among English-speaking developed countries and 8th in the world on A.T. Kearney's 2004 Offshore Location Attractiveness Index. This presentation compares and contrasts offshore locations such as India and Ireland, using criteria such as business process experience, people skills and availability, compensation costs, business environment and cultural...; Tags: Leading Edge British Columbia, Canada, compensation, business process; Presentations
Offshoring and Beyond: Companies that send their back-office jobs offshore often cut their labor costs by as much as half. This research finds that these companies risk leaving billions of dollars in savings behind if they merely replicate what they do at home in countries where labor is cheap. The savviest operators redesign...; Tags: Outsourcing, Operational planning, Operational accounting, McKinsey & Co., offshoring, business process, revenue opportunity, back-office, cost savings, strategy, environment, job; White papers
Offshoring BPO to Pakistan: TRG's Experience: The Resource Group TRG is one of the largest offshore-controlled BPO companies in the world. Its business consists of taking controlling stakes in business services companies in North America and Western Europe, and repositioning them for growth using a globalized service delivery model. TRG established its offshore facility in Lahore,...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Pakistan, BPO, business service, strategy; White papers
Build Operate Transfer: Tensilica's Experience in Offshoring Engineering to India: Tensilica is a private, venture-capital financed semiconductor intellectual property company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Tensilica licenses configurable and extensible embedded processor technology to the leading system and integrated circuit suppliers of the world. In August 2003 Tensilica decided to explore low-cost, offshore engineering resources to supplement the engineering team...; Tags: Outsourcing, Semiconductors, Tensilica Inc., offshoring, Santa Clara, India, integrated circuit, semiconductor, venture capital, intellectual property, processor; White papers
Offshoring - What Is Offshoring?: Offshoring simply means having the outsourced business functions done in another country. Frequently, work is offshored in order to reduce labor expenses. Other times, the reasons for offshoring are strategic - to enter new markets, to tap talent currently unavailable domestically or to overcome regulations that prevent specific activities domestically....; Tags: Outsourcing, offshoring, talent, software; White papers

How to Reduce Offshore Hidden Costs: According to a CIO article published in 2003, if you're sending $10 million worth of work to India, selecting a vendor could cost one anywhere from .2% to 2% of the price each year - $20,000 to $200,000. Likewise, it stated that the transition costs could be the most expensive...; Tags: Outsourcing, offshoring, vendor selection, best practice; White papers
When Offshore Manufacturing Doesn't Make Sense: While many companies benefit from sending work to places where labor is cheap, manufacturers often overrate the value of wage savings and underestimate the inventory, obsolescence, intellectual-property, and currency risks of off-shoring. When manufacturers understand their main sources of competitive advantage, they can decide whether off-shoring helps them or creates...; Tags: Outsourcing, Strategy, McKinsey & Co., offshoring, manufacturer, competitive advantage, intellectual property, manufacturing; White papers
Outsourcing And Offshoring: Information Technology And Globalization: Outsourcing and offshoring are words that describe how companies fragment the production process into globally sourced supply chains. Everybody have seen the globalization process unfold for autos, apparel, and electronics; now everybody is seeing global sourcing call centers, software, and finance. Outsourcing and offshoring raise questions of economic theory, business...; Tags: Strategy, Brandeis University, offshoring, globalization, outsourcing, theory, sourcing, business strategy, information technology, supply chain, electronics, finance, software; White papers 2007-08-20
Technology Pros Get a Mixed Career Bag: Good news for the IT world: average compensation for technology managers has finally entered the six-digit realm, according to new survey results from InformationWeek IW. The results suggest that average IT managers earn $105,000 annually in cash salary and bonuses. But it's not all good news: automation and offshoring still...; Tags: Strategy, Andrew Hines, career, information technology, offshoring, outsourcing; Blog posts 2007-05-01
Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects On Wages, Production And Trade: A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as 'Shadow migration' and shows that this allows straightforward derivation of the general equilibrium effects on prices, wages, production and trade (necessary and sufficient conditions...; Tags: Outsourcing, London School of Economics, offshoring, salary; White papers 2007-05-01
Offshoring Of Routine Tasks And (DE)Industrialisation: Threat Or Opportunity - And For Whom?: Offshoring, or overseas sourcing of routine tasks, generates efficiency gains that benefit consumers and workers with skills similar to those whose very jobs are threatened by offshoring. Essentially, the interaction between offshoring, footloose capital and agglomeration economies locks the comparative advantage of advanced nations in complex or strategic functions while...; Tags: Offshoring, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; White papers 2007-03-08
The Implications Of Service Offshoring For Metropolitan Economies: Certainly, any attempt to predict future economic changes, particularly at the metropolitan level, is full of risks. Yet the alternative - ignoring what one know about current trends, likely possibilities, and regional economic structures - is equally if not more risky, as it threatens to leave metropolitan areas unprepared for...; Tags: Brookings Institution, risk, leader, strategy; White papers 2007-02-01
Impacts Of Globalization And Offshoring On Engineering Employment In The Personal Computing Industry: Globalization has changed the nature, organization, and location of engineering work in the personal computing industry. As a consequence, lower skill and lower paid engineering jobs that might have been created in the U.S. are instead being created overseas, while higher skill and higher paid jobs remain in the U.S....; Tags: Development tools, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, University of California, software engineering, globalization, small form factor, U.S., computer science, handheld device, smart phone, handheld, software, job, hardware, industry, phone, computer, network; White papers 2006-12-06
Retail Banking Joins The Offshoring Parade: The depth and breadth of pending corporate efforts to offshore critical business processes is significant and raises important issues for consideration as enterprises in various industries progress along the offshoring maturity curve. This paper reports on the rapidly increasing offshoring activity of U.S.-based banks along with examining the associated implications...; Tags: Outsourcing, business process, industry; White papers 2006-12-01
Dispelling Some Myths About Offshoring: Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence for this, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reviews evidence on whether firms that do business in foreign countries are substituting foreign for domestic labor. The results of...; Tags: Outsourcing, labor, offshoring, globalization; White papers 2006-09-01
An Enterprise Perspective Of Software Offshoring: Enterprises engaged in software offshoring are reticent about their involvements. This paper presents a view of software offshoring from an enterprise perspective based on the author's extensive globalization experience. It addresses the wide spread fear of decline of software development in developed countries due to offshoring by presenting a case...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Outsourcing, Development tools, University of Wisconsin, offshoring, software engineering, software development, Process Management, globalization, motivation, software, project management, decision-making, benefit, security; White papers 2006-08-14
Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory Of OffShoring.: For centuries, most international trade involved an exchange of complete goods. But, with recent improvements in transportation and communications technology, it increasingly entails different countries adding value to global supply chains, or what might be called ?trade in tasks.? A new conceptualization of the global production process is proposed that...; Tags: Outsourcing, Princeton University, offshoring, transportation, supply chain, theory, benefit; White papers 2006-08-01
Analyzing The Debate Over Offshore Outsourcing In The Service Industry: Is There A Reason For Concern?: The United States has experienced an increase in the offshore outsourcing of jobs in the service industry. Although offshoring is common in the manufacturing industry, it only recently began in the service industry. The recent increase in the service industry has occurred because of new technology and ability to access...; Tags: Outsourcing, Benefits, offshoring, offshore outsourcing, gross domestic product, layoff, job, U.S., benefit, industry; White papers 2006-07-31
Mixing It Up With Insource, Outsource, and Offshore: Most research shows that offshoring and outsourcing are clearly the next wave of improvement initiatives for delivery of support services, but how does one decide whether outsourcing or offshoring are right for an organization? Having assisted a number of companies make the internal build vs. external outsource, and onshore vs....; Tags: offshoring, outsource, outsourcing, support services; White papers 2006-07-26
Off-Shoring Of Business Services And Deindustrialisation: Threat Or Opportunity - And For Whom?: This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs allow global firms (multinational corporations or individual...; Tags: Offshoring, London School Of Economics, Transportation; White papers 2006-07-01