The Success of Offshoring
Traditional businesses are rated by their profit, business structure, and popularity in a certain region. For example, a market, a bank, or a shopping mall is deemed successful if it garners huge profit, has several branches, and enjoys widespread popularity. However, with the current economic depression, traditional businesses have been hit badly. The downsizing of the number of branches, as well as employees, has led to a reassessment of the traditional business structure, and also a quest to find an alternative means of conducting business operations which will grant savings in terms of cost, manpower, and infrastructure. With the advent of the information age, help is on the way, thanks to the power of internet and the validity of ...

Virtual Workforce, An alternative staffing solution
In tough economic times, every business needs to reassess its bottom line and one of the biggest costs to a business is its employees. Most businesses have ignored the outsourcing or offshoring option but recently they have started to explore this as an option to reduce costs and continue their work at an equal quality.

Are You Ready To Be Part Of The LPO Industry?
Could downfall of the US economy be an upswing for the Indian LPO Industry? This is the question that’s in everybody mind. With the failure of the financial machinery last quarter, the US is facing its worst ever financial crises. Cost pressure is increasing and companies are exploring newer ways to achieve cost efficiencies such as outsourcing and offshoring. Reducing the cost of lawyers and litigation involved in business is the top priority for the CEOs.

Legal Process Outsourcing Industry Is Heading Towards Consolidation
Research done by KPO Consultants suggests that there are little over 100 LPO companies in India and the LPO industry is moving towards mergers, acquisitions and consolidations. Big BPO players including Infosys, HCL, WNS, Wipro, Exl and others are seeking a toehold in the Legal Process Outsourcing industry. Their financial strength enables them to use multiple entry routes to the Legal Process Offshoring field. The margins in the BPO industry are 12-15%, while LPO offers margins as high as 40%, using fewer employees. Moreover, established India-based BPO firms are already serving foreign clients, including financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate law departments, all of which are big users of legal services. After the fore...

VirtualEmployee.com v Elance: The Difference:
VirtualEmployee.com and Elance are both outsourcing/offshoring service providers. With Elance and VirtualEmployee.com employers can outsource a wide variety of office based work and make significant savings. The similarities between VirtualEmployee.com and Elance however end there, for VirtualEmployee.com and Elance serve two very different outsourcing markets.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services
The success in offshoring Business Process Outsourcing services operations with respect to reducing costs and often improving quality has encouraged many firms to start offshoring their high-end knowledge work as well. Their underlying expectation is that offshoring high-end processes will result in additional cost savings and operational efficiencies, coupled with access to very good talent in the low-wage offshore countries. In this paper, we will refer to this offshoring of higher-end services as Knowledge Process Offshoring (KPO).

Does Offshoring My Web Design Project Really Save Money?
A lot of people in the US are excited about getting web design and development done on the cheap, especially during a recession Many foreign companies offer $10 - $15 per hour

Marketing Executives Networking Group Releases Second Annual Top Marketing Trends for 2009
Innovation Up; Global Warming and Offshoring Down; China on the Rise and Web 2.0 Term on the Decline

Marketing Executives Networking Group Releases Second Annual Top Marketing Trends for 2009
Innovation Up; Global Warming and Offshoring Down; China on the Rise and Web 2.0 Term on the Decline

Zinnov Study Points to "Infrastructure Management Services" as Next Big Growth Area for India Offshoring
Zinnov forecasts offshoring of IMS to India to grow from $1.4 billion today to $4.2 billion before year-end 2010, with hardware support services accounting for the majority of those revenues. The banking, financial services and insurance industries (BFSI) are the biggest users of IMS services (at roughly 43% of the market).