Feb
8
The Philippines is IBM’s Top Destination for Business Support
February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
“For business support functions (such as shared services and business process outsourcing) the Philippines has taken over the lead in the global ranking from India, after having challenged the top position for several years.
This is the first time that India is not in the leading position for these activities. The Philippines offers a similarly attractive business environment for international business support functions as India, but has not had the same labor cost increases as have occurred in various Indian ‘hot spots’ in recent years.”
–pages 6 to 7, IBM Global Location Trends Annual Report, October 2010
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Feb
7
Make Outsourcing Work for You
February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Outsourcing offers many benefits to small businesses. Without adding permanent fixed expenses, outsourcing allows the small businesses focus on their core capabilities and get other tasks done on an as-needed basis.
Missed deadlines, service providers that stop answering phones, work or finished products that don’t meet expectations are just a few of the problems small business owners can encounter when they outsource work to independent contractors or other small companies.
How can you minimize these problems so your small company can get better results when you outsource work?
Feb
6
Cebu’s Translation Outsourcing Potential
February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Philippines is finding its way to take advantage the US$26 billion translation outsourcing market.
Asia is becoming more attractive for the world’s fast growing translation firms to set up their hubs in Cebu.
Feb
4
Offshoring – The Evolving Captive Center
February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Stephanie Overby of CIO interviews Professor Ilan Oshri on his new book, “Offshoring Strategies: Evolving Captive Center Models” (2011) which delves into the century-old history of the strategy, the continuing challenges captive facilities encounter and the promising resurgence of captive facilities.
Ilan Oshri is an Associate Professor in Strategic Management from Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus, The Netherlands. His main research interest lies in the area of knowledge management and innovation.
He is also the co-author of “The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring” (2009), “Outsourcing Global Services” (2008), “Knowledge Processes in Globally Distributed Contexts” (2008) and “Standards-Battles in Open Source Software” (2008). Proferssor Oshri is also the co-founder of the Global Sourcing workshop.
Read the interview here.
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