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Category Archives: Offshore Services
Comparing Chinese Manufacturing and Indian Services
I was doing some number crunching for the book and came up with this chart. When you hear the phrase “outsourcing of jobs to India and China”, which you do often in American politics today, there is going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Offshore Services
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Keane and Sonata
Last week NTT announced the acquisition of Keane. With roughly a billion dollars in revenue, this was a major acquisition, just a few months after their acquisition of Intelligroup, a $126 million IT Services company. Now, the ET reports that … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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The Cloud and Services
Yesterday, IBM put its cloud services under its Services arm. It will be sold by IBM Global Services. From the FT: In its latest revamp, IBM said it would sell cloud computing through its services division, which generates nearly 60 … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services, Technology
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The Yin and Yang of HR in Services Companies
I will start out saying something provocative, but true nonetheless. There are just two key elements in making a Services company successful – Leadership and the HR function. The company that does better on both these elements, wins. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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Rumored Candidates for NEC Director
Candidates being suggested to replace Larry Summers as Director of the National Economic Council – basically, the President’s top economic advisor – include Indra Nooyi and Diana Farrell. Indra Nooyi is one of the many CEOs whose name is being … Continue reading
Posted in India, Offshore Services
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Acquisitions in the Offshore Industry
Horses for Sources has a post on the rumored merger discussions between Cognizant and Genpact. Financial Express reported on it first. I disagree with the premise of the post and wrote a long comment which for some reason did not … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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The Long Backlash Against Offshore
The US and Western Europe account for the lion’s share of the market for Offshore services. In the medium term they are expecting slow or no growth and at least in the US, high unemployment rates. In such a scenario, … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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The Cost of Onsite Hiring Just Went Down
The US Southwest Border Bill imposes an increased application fee of an additional $2000 for every H1B and L1 employee on a few Indian Offshore Services companies. Much has already been said about it by politicians, Indian companies and NASSCOM. … Continue reading
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Indian Balance of Payments and Offshore Services
The RBI is concerned about India’s Balance of Payments. One of the reasons ascribed to the growing problem is the slow down in the Indian Offshore Services industry. From today’s FT One reason, the central bank said, for the deterioration … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, India, Offshore Services
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The Quest for Higher Bill Rates
Thanks for all your comments on last week’s post on Local Hiring. Here’s the outline of the key issues we want to tackle in another chapter of the book called The Quest for Higher Bill Rates. The need for higher … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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