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		<title><![CDATA[You're Offshoring. Now what?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1023199]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A company's business applications are the energy that powers the entire enterprise. Connecting all of its people, locations, customers and partners, housing its critical data and information, and enabling its essential business transactions and analyses, applications are the driving force behind the business. As one of the biggest line items...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Outsourcing And Offshoring Good Or Bad For American Firms?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1128261]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For many American firms under the credit crunch, if the question is whether or not outsourcing and offshoring will help them stay afloat, the answer is a resounding "Yes". The only difference the recession has made to many of America's leading firms is that outsourcing to highly skilled professionals at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rethinking Emerging Market Strategies: From Offshoring To Strategic Expansion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=932777]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than a decade now, manufacturers have flocked into emerging markets under the banner of globalization to access low-cost sourcing in highgrowth economies. Many of these organizations have established fairly successful operations and realized significant cost arbitrage. Just below the surface, however, sizable sourcing risks - from contaminated pet...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Small Business Guide To Offshoring Finance And Accounting Processes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1128243]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike big corporations who offshore Financial & Accounting (F&A) business processes, for a small business it is an arduous task. Small businesses may not have the right resources to find suitable service providers to outsource their accounting business processes. This paper explores four simple steps, small businesses can follow using...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time To Rethink Offshoring?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=950827]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Changing economic conditions may have undermined some of the benefits of offshoring. For managers of global supply chains, this could be the time to reevaluate. The production of high-tech goods has moved steadily from the United States to Asia over the last decade. The reasons are familiar: lower wages, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Offshoring Is Exaggerated, But the Labor Shortage Is Real]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. Among them, there is a common perception that U.S. corporations are cutting IT budgets by laying off lots of IT professionals and shipping their IT jobs overseas, and generally wrecking a lot of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time to rethink offshoring?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to rethink offshoring?RE: Time to rethink offshoring?It has never been good business or green to off-shore jobs no matter what the cost of a barrel of oil is going for, there is only so much of the stuff to go around. Waste through transport was pure selfishness, stealing resources...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:25:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing economic conditions may have undermined some of the benefits of offshoring. For managers of global supply chains, this could be the time to reevaluate.      The production of high-tech goods has moved steadily from the United States to Asia over the last decade. The reasons...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Major Health Benefit Provider: Strategic Offshoring]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1173333]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This Major Health Benefit Provider worked with Accenture Health Administration BPO Services to develop a two-year strategic outsourcing plan that encompassed its three primary stakeholders: members, providers and employers. Through a competitive process, the company selected Accenture Health Administration BPO Services as its outsourcing partner because of the expertise demonstrated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Fresh Wind For Offshoring Infrastructure Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=950809]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses have begun tapping offshore companies to monitor, maintain, and fix their IT infrastructures. Revenues from remote infrastructure management, as these services are called, have grown by 80 percent a year since 2005 and are expected to reach $6 billion to $7 billion this year. But our research shows that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Offshoring Is So Over]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Offshoring Is So OverRE: Offshoring Is So OverIndeed this was to be expected. Now that the euphoria of cheaper manufacturing costs have been slowly evoporating and with increased shipping cost, lower Dollar values, and cost of energy etc will convince the Offshoring Honchos to rethink.The technological breakthroughs attained in early...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Offshoring Is So Over]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Airport baggage carousels can provide telling glimpses of what's happening in the economy. In 2004 I was waiting for my bags with a guy who was coming back from South Korea. His company was moving its factory -- including all the specialized equipment in it -- from Massachusetts to South...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Win Offshoring Knowledge Workers: Booz]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1324]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Offshoring began with making things, such as T-shirts or laptops. Now,Â  thinking jobs are going over seas, too. Since 2000, the number of offshored providers of intellectual services has doubled, according to a Booz & Co. study.    India now accounts for half of all offshore knowledge services,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:19:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is My Job 'Offshorable'? You Might be Surprised]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=376]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a much debated research paper last year, Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder concluded that up to 38 million jobs, or 29 percent, of US jobs are potentially offshorable within the next couple of decades -- that is, capable of being outsourced to workers in other countries.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Successfully Expanding Outsourcing And Offshoring Strategies In The Publishing Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=919621]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Publishing is an old and storied industry, tracing pedigree back to Gutenberg and perhaps further. It is also an industry undergoing significant evolution. In the past decade, rapid improvements in technology, particularly the proliferation of digital media, have resulted in a whirlwind of change in media consumption patterns and production...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Risk Intelligent Approach To Outsourcing And Offshoring]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=932477]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, many companies have increased their use of and dependence on Outsourcing and Offshoring (O/O). These arrangements present both risks and rewards to the organizations using them. But outsourcing and offshoring need not be a roll of the dice. There are steps you can take to minimize the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cato's study on U.S. Manufacturing suffers from fatal flaws]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5730/is_18_14/ai_n29450601]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 28, the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., published a report, "Thriving in a Global Economy: The Truth about U.S. Manufacturing and Trade." The report confuses a company's offshored products with its import competition and wrongly concludes that U.S. companies with the most import competition are the companies that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The new logic of offshoring: the next generation of offshoring&#151;innovating and engineering&#151;is at hand]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4070/is_228/ai_n21067826]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In its earliest phase, offshoring was driven by cost reduction and limited to non-mission-critical work such as call centers, credit card processing and administrative work. Companies raced to source work in Asia-Pacific, South American and Eastern European countries where workers are plentiful and wages are low. Over time, the level...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing And Offshoring: Information Technology And Globalization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321639]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Offshoring trends]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5393/is_200708/ai_n21294559]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[NEWS, OPINION AND MEMBER UPDATES   OFFSHORING PROCESSES FROM domestic Western labour to the cheaper alternatives available in China, India, Malaysia and Eastern Europe has been touted as not only logical but inevitable. Yet companies that place too much emphasis on seeking cost reduction from offshoring could limit their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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