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Outsourcing You read it here first – and it turns out Duncan Aitchison was right. A few weeks ago, the partner at outsourcing advisor told The Knowledge that India was still king of the offshoring destinations, but that a bunch of other destinations were biting hard on its heels.
Now analyst Gartner has released research that comes to similar conclusions, suggesting India remains the undisputed leader in offshore services – but that countries such as China, Russia and Brazil are providing increasingly credible alternatives.
Gartner predicts offshore spending will increase by 60 per cent in Europe, and 40 per cent in the US, next year. The analyst’s top 30 locations for offshore services are: (more…)
January 23rd, 2008
Alsbridge CEO and Collaborative Outsourcing pioneer, Ben Trowbridge, says, as the outsourcing industry moves into 2007, higher priority must be placed on staying cost competitive and staying ahead of global trends in the sourcing market.
“Companies want to see the results of their sourcing projects turn out successfully,” observed Trowbridge. “In this regard, we believe our predictions of the market will prove beneficial to industry leaders and buyers in all stages of the sourcing lifecycle.”
Alsbridge proprietary data, public information and current industry trends have led Trowbridge to offer his predictions for 2007:
Because of a tightening U.S. labor supply in technology, accounting and other processes, U.S.-based companies will accelerate their outsourcing strategies to stay competitive. (more…)
November 14th, 2007
The rise and rise of Bangalore as the centre of outsourcing could be under threat from new challengers nearer to Europe’s commercial heart. Increasingly, companies are being attracted to workforces in countries such as Romania, which, a report suggests, have better language skills and a keener understanding of their clients than competitors further east.
A survey of European chief information officers (CIOs) found that nearly 90 per cent would prefer a more local supplier for at least some of their IT services and that just under a third had unsatisfactory experiences with companies in more distant countries, such as India and China.
In the KPMG survey of more than 100 companies, more than half of CIOs said that they planned to boost spending on suppliers in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romania, the Czech Republic, and Hungary; less than a third forecast similar increases in Asia’s emerging markets. (more…)
May 25th, 2007
Almost a third of European IT managers have had unsatisfactory experiences with non-European service suppliers, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The research also found that 40% believed European suppliers retained a competitive edge in IT innovation and technical excellence.
Although many multinationals have struck deals with IT services companies based in Asia or the Indian subcontinent as part of a trend towards offshoring, almost 90% of the 100 IT managers surveyed across 20 European countries said they preferred to use local suppliers for at least some of their products and services. (more…)
March 19th, 2007
The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007
Thousands of IT executives contributed to a year’s worth of data that reveals the direction of the industry.
When it comes to IT, change may very well be the only thing CIOs can depend on in 2007. That’s what the editors at CIO Insight found when we took each of the 13 surveys we conducted in 2006 and put them under the microscope to project next year’s 30 major trends. We break out 2007’s trends into four different categories: Strategy, Management, Security, and Technology. But they are all closely related. And each trend contains a wealth of information and statistics gleaned directly from the source: CIOs, CTOs, and other high-level technology executives. So look closely.
Will service-oriented architecture take a big step forward next year? Will outsourcing take a step backward? Will businesses finally learn how to measure the value of IT? These are just some of the predictions we make based on a full year’s worth of data. Read on to see what kind of year you can expect in 2007. (more…)
January 26th, 2007
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