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May31
UFO in Bangalore to fix a deal on outsourcing??

UFO in Indian sky. What could be the motive behind?  First it was seen in the skyspace above Indian prime minister's residence in New Delhi and then probably it has shifted to Bangalore. So called analysts, strategy makers, think tanks, big time consultants are on the (??) view that UFO more than politico reasons is keener on discussing an outsourcing deal with one of the global companies in Bangalore.

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Don't ask me, what the aliens could be discussing with top people from Infosys, Wipro, Microsoft, IBM, may be from data entry to home tutorial to local journalism from distance, high end software codig, outsourcing can be cure to all business worries.

One comment however sums it up all, someone said after reading the news at Metafilter. 

In related news, tonight in Chicago monkeys were seen flying out my butt, as pigs streamed across the skies.

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May31
RPO (Recruitment process outsourcing): List of top 13 providers
RPO or Recruitment Process Outsourcing is damn hot today. The industry is getting bigger and bigger size. I saw people asking me what are the top recruitment process outsourcing or RPO companies? Though I am not aware of whether any... Continue Reading
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) to grow 7% in India
In the legal process outsourcing market, India at present enjoys 3 to 4% of the 250 billion global market. By 2010 the country may actually grab up 6-7% of the pie. This information was shared by BPO Council of Associated... Continue Reading
May30
Airbus to hike outsourcing from 20 to 50%
Airbus management notwithstanding the roar against its outsourcing decision created by unions and some segments of media will go ahead with its plan of outsourcing. It seems to have getting good result from the exercise and has decided to raise... Continue Reading
Linklaters gives Unisys IT outsourcing contract
For young guys it can be a good reason to join Linklaters, after all more than half the trainees there are fresh college pass out females. That’s one reason and secondly, young guns will no more have to live life... Continue Reading
List of 9 reasons why China will overtake India in outsourcing
A wonderful article written by Arijit Sengupta about the secret weapons the Chinese BPO industry is having. This blog post is dedicated to that article.   1. India has become complacent with its success. Much like the way British once dominated... Continue Reading
The Capita and Resolution in £580 million outsourcing deal
Workers of a Scottish financial The Capita Group were upset after the news was out that Capita has signed an outsourcing deal with Resolution Plc. Capita will also transfer staff as part of the deal which many believe is temporary... Continue Reading
Lloyds TSB extends Ceridian outsourcing contract for five more years
Lloyds TSB, one of Great Britain's leading financial services groups has inked a multi-million pound outsourcing deal with Ceridian. The deal is extension between seven year long agreement between Lloyd TSB and Ceridian which has been extended for five more... Continue Reading
May29
U.S Forest Service, height of dumbness and inefficiency
Well, just in my previous post I wrote,(Relationship)..If it goes sourU won't be able to scoreSee, what US Forest Service has done. Dumb. They actually ended up paying nine times more than the normal expenditure for outsourcing. Ha….height of dumbness.... Continue Reading
Arabic call center jobs lapped up by Jamia Nizamia univ students
If you only thought English along with other European and Latin American language are most soft after language in call centers and outsourcing campuses, think again. You have not counted United Arab Emirates or countries which speak Arabic.One Arabic medium... Continue Reading
May28
HP-Bank of India combo won prize for best outsourcing contract
Well, there were awards for everything. And now we have awards on 'best outsourcing contract.' Ha.HP and Bank of India who are bounded by an outsourcing contract (very new and very happy like a newly wed just over with extended... Continue Reading
Referral recruitment gaining momentum in BPOs
Well, that's not a good news for the job portals or for that matter poaching managers and if the trend gets more momentum, well, their bottomline will certainly going to suffer. But, yes, creative managers always find out opportunities from... Continue Reading
Pantaloon's Future Group to settle for Cisco and IBM
Future Group from Kolkata, India which owns Pantaloon Retail Ltd. is considering to revamp its entire information technology infrastructure. It has short listed couple of Information technology firms, Cisco Systems and IBM Corp. While Cisco has niche in delivering wireless... Continue Reading
Can outsourcing of home tutoring become a trend?
This outsourcing goes one step deeper or should I say more into grass root level. If till now outsourcing is explored more on selling services to business, this one aims to create a direct American consumer play plugged in from... Continue Reading
Davao City Philippines getting more outsourcing business
More call centers are coming to Davao City of Philippines. That's certainly a good news for the youngsters who do not find it easy slogging in other cities for job. Now while being in their own city they can avail... Continue Reading
PT Telkomsel to double its call center capacity in Indonesia
Indonesia may not be a huge name in the outsourcing industry, but inside the country lot is happening over telecommunication sector. Country's call center industry is getting a direct benefit out of it. Indonesia's leading cellular phone operator PT Telkomsel... Continue Reading
May27
List: Top 7 reasons firms outsource
Why firms outsource? The latest study from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) found out that a whopping 87% of senior executives feel IT outsourcing actually delivers on the comprehensive business benefits are being projected in the original plan. The study has shown... Continue Reading
Outsourcing No. 1 issue for management consulting firms
It is believed that approximately one-third of investment management firms will spruce up their utility of outsourcing over the next couple of years. Because of regulatory and investor demand, organizations offering alternative investments try outside companies for help with customer... Continue Reading
IBM bags ASP Pisa contract
ASP Pisa the financial application services provider from Mexico expectedly has awarded a $935,000 outsourcing deal to IBM overlooking other bidders. IBM will deliver management and integration services for ASP Pisa’s ERP, database and core banking processes. No party associated... Continue Reading
More coming for India and China in manufacturing outsourcing
The electronics industry with the strength of its ever-increasing outsourcing work being sent to low cost countries is poised to increase sharply. India will get a good pie of it, however, it will remain much way behind China. This study... Continue Reading
How Americans hate outsourcing: An example
The author writes his experience about fixing an internet connection, waiting 3 days speaking with overseas call center agent in Philippines only to later discover that the agent is saying that he can not solve the problem, he needs an... Continue Reading
May24
Ousourcing cartoon
   Got it from HT, print version. Scanned it for upload. ... Continue Reading
May23
Bsys, the outsourcing firm to pay $25 million settlement
The Bisys Group Inc. a financial outsourcing service provider has agreed to pay $25 million to finish off a Securities and Exchange Commission charge that it is supposed to being entangled in improper accounting practices. The Roseland, N.J.-based company and... Continue Reading
Bulgaria hot in outsourcing world
The latest to join European Union this year, Bulgaria has become a popular outsourcing center for some of the world's premier information technology biggies that gain profit from its cheap highly-skilled workforce while getting the best from the country’s brain... Continue Reading
May22
Are you ready for a life & career in call center?
Call center is not investment banking. There is a feeling that call center industry is full of fun, wild partying, endless wines and resource for the cutest chicks and Greek god guys. Since the industry needs young guns out of... Continue Reading
List of call center interview mistakes you should NEVER commit-1
So, you have decided that you will work in call center and make a promising career out of it. When everyone is doing great, why not you? But before you go out and face the call center interview board let... Continue Reading
China going super strong in software outsorurcing
Chinese software industry is going great guns. The Chinese software industry's outsourcing market has reached US$1.43 billion. That is up by 55.4 percent from the 2006. It is believed that (in the mainstream that is where manufacturing holds more prominence)... Continue Reading
Capita to take care Birmingham City Council's customer services
Birmingham City Council has inked a £142m, 10-year long deal with outsourcing firm Capita to give a make over to its much publicized faulty and unfriendly customer service operations. The deal was in fact to Service Birmingham, created specially by... Continue Reading
Kolkata down at outsourcing center list by ASSOCHM
The local communist government may use the local media to claim that Calcutta (Kolkata) is becoming preferred IT destination of the country, but the latest result from ASSOCHAM has found something else from its survey. Its report on potential business... Continue Reading
May21
Outsourcing: List of 7 best countries
Analysts believe that by 2015 some 4 million white collars jobs from US alone will be outsourced to other countries. The number is more or less 350,000 today. So, when the shift is inevitable, the next question that arise is,... Continue Reading
TCS, IBM, Accenture, who will win Prudnetial $1.5 billion outsourcing deal
Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), Accenture and IBM, all are chasing this monstrously huge outsourcing deal from Prudential Insurance. To know the result about who wins the race you have to wait till July. The decision will be unveiled in July.... Continue Reading
Top & best list of India's 15 call centers
What are the best outsourcing companies in India? Please tell me the names of top 10 call centers in India? What are the best call centers to work for in India? I get to tackle questions like these pretty often.... Continue Reading
eTelecare Global Solutions, first NASDAQ listed Filipino company to open sixth call center
eTelecare Global Solutions the first Philippine company to release an IPO and enlisted with NASDAQ has announced that it will open a mammoth size 3,000 seat call center in the country. eTelecare Global Solutions already has five call centers in... Continue Reading
Captive offshoring losing its sheen?
It seems captive offshoring is losing its glow? Latest report by Forrester Research states that unless giant captive offshoring centers of companies like Dell, Microsoft, SAP, Honeywell do not shift their outsourcing operation to third parties, there may lie the... Continue Reading
Are Indian cos losing out on plump banking, financial and insurance outsourcing projects?
Market research firm Frost and Sullivan says more than a third of Australian financial services firms are going to take outsourcing route for information technology and other business process outsourcing requirements. Future figure for banking, financial services and insurance outsourcing... Continue Reading
May20
Miami beach will outsource sand from foreign beach
Will the local sands protest? Do they have a union? Don’t you think by this decision from Miami beach, of outsourcing sand from foreign beach will destroy its own characteristics? Well, you don’t have to think hard on that. Don’t... Continue Reading
Thomson outsourcing editorial work to Chennai, India
Well, people who are surprised to see Pasadena incident and asking all over the places with strange face, how can this happen, how can local journalism be outsourced, let me tell you, yes, local journalism outsourcing sounds too much, but... Continue Reading
China's Jiangsu province aggressively targeting outsourcing
China's Jiangsu Province is launching marketing programs to target business process outsourcing as possible area for robust economic growth in the coming years. Zhang Weiguo, the deputy governor of the state (or province) while speaking with China’s leading newspaper, The... Continue Reading
List: 8 reasons why Malta can be the next outsourcing hotspot
Can beautiful Malta become the next outsourcing hotspot like India, China Philippines, Russia and Poland? In call and contact center business process outsourcing Malta has not one but many a strong advantages.  Let’s take a look at the list of... Continue Reading
May19
Top 10 US brands Indian call centers agents cant live without
There are tons of print mounds and media time being spent on how outsourcing is taking away jobs from US, but are we aware of the giant Indian market where US brands are having an extraordinary run, most of the... Continue Reading
What are the biggest outsourcing worries or dilemmas?
Forget politically created confusion and moments of indecision, according to the corporate world what are the biggest two dilemmas or worries in the field of outsourcing. In a recently held event called Auto Finance Operations and Technology Summit it has... Continue Reading
KPO market in India: The size and the scope
A recent study by Evalueserve, the leading management consulting and knowledge process firm has stated that the size of knowledge process or KPO market in India approximately US$2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) to US$3 billion a year. If the present trend... Continue Reading
Patent research: Cost in India vis a vis USA
Indians are now doing high end BPO work which is called KPO. Indian firms are taking up jobs in the field of finance, law and health. On healthcare, typical works like patent research can be done pretty cheaply in India.... Continue Reading
Journalists opposing against APN outsourcing
At the Qantas Media Awards people saw some unpleasant moments. Journalists who were present there hurled their anger against which last March announced a plan to outsource a good chunk of editorial work from New Zealand to Auckland. The... Continue Reading
May18
Asia: Electronic outsourcing to double
Market research firm, In-Stat has stated that the Asian contract electronics manufacturing market is poised to grow more than double from $121.5 billion in 2006 to $281.8 billion in 2011. Now that’s damn happy news for people who work for... Continue Reading
Citigroup to sell Indian outsourcing unit, e-Serve?
Citigroup will putt its captive business process outsourcing (BPO) arm in India on sale. The bank s per the rumor mill goes has already appointed a merchant banker in US for the perceived sale. The captive arm is called Citigroup... Continue Reading
Small Business: Its better to outsource IT functions
Do-it-yourself does not always pay dividend when your own small business’ IT infrastructure is concerned. Well, I am sure, first there is this additional headache and then the additional responsibility to take care of not so easy small business IT... Continue Reading
2007: Year of outsourcing restructuring?
After getting away with its teething problems outsourcing as an industry in the developing countries are now on the verge of seeing lot of new things. One of them restructuring of new outsourcing deals. The marketers and seeing more and... Continue Reading
Garden City Casino chops 1/5th jobs for outsourcing
Almost one-fifth of the food-serving workforce at the In a sudden and shocking note Garden City Casino gets rid of its one fifth of food serving workforce. The casino plans to outsource its food services to control $2 million in... Continue Reading
May17
Pasadena publisher drops outsourcing of local journalism plans
James Macpherson, the publisher and editor of Pasadena Now news mag has dropped the plan of outsourcing the couple of journalists from India's Mumbai and Bangalore to cover Pasadena City council meeting over the internet. Ask him why he shelved... Continue Reading
Allianz passes 500 jobs to Fujitsu, cuts new contract
Under a strategic partnership with Insurance and financial services group Allianz SE will transfer approximately 500 jobs to Fujitsu Services. The deal is worth £274 million (or 400 million Euro) and as per the contract Fujitsu will provide desktop, network... Continue Reading
Philippines: Favorite BPO Outsourcing destination
There's no doubt that increasingly after India, Philippines has become the favorite outsourcing hot spot for the best of American companies. In the previous fiscal Philippines has experienced 40-45% growth in outsourcing. At present more than 266,000 Filipinos are employed... Continue Reading
Indian firms in US fearing outsourcing backlash
Is it true that America's immigration policy is driving away world's best and the brightest talents? The H-1B visa program from US which provides 65,000 visas was opened and closed on a single day, on April 2.  US authorities have... Continue Reading
KPO: Knowledge Process Outsourcing definition, types, scope
KPO or knowledge process outsourcing can be termed as high value added forms of business process outsourcing or BPO. Unlike random customer service or handling of low end inbound and outbound calls KPO firms deliver high end domain specific processes... Continue Reading
How to get more from outsourcing
You will always find n number of people are saying n number of things about how to extract the best from the outsourcing. There are instances when an outsourcing exerise has actually cost more than what it would have cost... Continue Reading
May16
O2 to cut 1000 jobs, but why?
20% of O2's total staff strength will simply disappear. O2, the German subsidiary of UK based mobile wing of Telefonica (basically from Spain) will cut up to 1,000 jobs to diminish personnel costs reports Financial Times Deutschland.One reason behind this... Continue Reading
MIVA unveils Spill.com, outsourcing cuts 50 jobs
Fort Myers-based MIVA Inc.(NASDAQ: MIVA) a leading digital advertising and media company unveiled its plans to outsource information technology, development, service and support functions to save approximately $20 million in seven years. Miva's new outsourcing partner is Perrot System which... Continue Reading
Maternity leave letter for call center's would be moms
Maternity leave, or as they are called these days parental leave or family leave (probably that sounds more gender neutral) when a mother (fathers also sometimes) takes leave from work in anticipation of a birth (sometimes adoption too) of a... Continue Reading
Two liner quick leave letter
Call center agents many a times get into the outsourcing industry as stop gap arrangements. Most of them graduates, a lot of them just after high schools. Some, over the time once got tuned with the industry considers to go... Continue Reading
LPO: Legal Process Outsourcing, definition, what is
What is the definition of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)? A kind of high end BPO industry that has been growing rapidly in the recent years. In Legal Process Outsorucing vendors or in-house departments of organisations outsource legal work from off-shore... Continue Reading
May15
How to save your job from being outsourced? or bangalored...
If you are an IT professional from USA or UK, you fear outsourcing to the most. Are you living in constant fear that any morning after you step into your office you may hear that your job is outsourced to... Continue Reading
LPO: Legal Process Outsourcing Services- Part 2
It seems these days everything, from Alpine to Airplane, needle to elephant everything can be outsourced. This theory seems true for the legal process outsourcing (lpo) sector, who would have thought even in 1990s that this kind of works can... Continue Reading
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)- the debate continues
The fact that India just like software outsourcing services may become the ideal offshore center for legal process outsourcing (LPO) is not well embraced by a section of opinionated US press. But the question is, can they stop it? The... Continue Reading
LPO: Types of Legal Process Outsourcing services Part 1
What is legal process outsourcing? Read it here. What are the various kinds of LPO? Broadly legal process outsourcing covers the following services:   Legal Research: (Definition, what is legal research?): Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving... Continue Reading
LPO or Legal Outsourcing: 79,000 jobs available
Yes, its true that Indian lawyers are not physically present at the court verandah and not present while the hearing, but that does not mean they can not while sitting in India, probably in one of Gurgaon’s or Bangalore’s swanky... Continue Reading
May14
Seven Trent Water outsources IT data center and support services
Seven Trent Water will outsource the data center and support services to number of suppliers. The vendors for the next seven years (hopefully they will complete the term) will deliver data center operations for approximately 120 company sites along... Continue Reading
Media outsourcing: Infosys BPO and TV 18 launch Source 18
Infosys BPO has inked a strategic alliance with India’s TV 18 Group to form a media outsourcing platform. It will launch Source 18 to provide a full spectrum of outsourcing services to media and entertainment companies across the globe. Unsurprisingly... Continue Reading
Call center attrition coming down
You must have heard stories about how high the rate of attrition eats up outsourcing botomline. In India, the scene is no different. But over the years the as the industry is settling down, the rate of attrition is also... Continue Reading
GE IPO: Genpact files for $600 mn IPO on NYSE
After EXL’s Nasdaq listing and WNS’ with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) it’s the heavyweight multi business process outsourcing Genpact Limited’s turn to make hay while sun shines (touchwood) at the foreign locales. Before I go ahead with the news... Continue Reading
Outsourced Benetton 2007 summer collection 20% cheaper
Italian clothing brand United Colors of Benetton has slashed prices down by 20 per cent this summer thanks to much lower production costs from suppliers in India. The one fifth cut in price also will increase demand, insiders feel. Hong... Continue Reading
May13
Call center interview tips
Whether you are fresher or experienced in the call center industry, we know there many a people actually struggle with interviews though eligibility and knowledge wise they are probably the ideal candidate for the job. One thing that you should... Continue Reading
May12
Canter call center closing; 252 jobs to be lost
Kantar Operations, a Rock Island based market-research call center is closing making its 252 employees redundant. The management is however empathizing with its employees and offering them resume writing tips and helping them so that they get jobs outside the... Continue Reading
Outsourcing: Lawyers, accountants and journalists may go out of job
I am sure no one will call this Princeton professor crazy, because he has said that ALL accountants in UK could be out of jobs by next generation. A well respected US economics professor, Alan Blinder is on the view... Continue Reading
US newspaper Pasadena.com outsources local journalism jobs to India
Local journalism is no more local now. The news field is Pasadena, the wealthy city just outside Los Angeles, but instead of the local journalists it will probably be written by people from India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of... Continue Reading
IT infrastructure outsourcing most beneficial
What is the most cost beneficial function to outsource? Well, its IT infrastructure outsourcing. Who says? Says the survey undertaken by Info-Tech Research Group amongst 1,600 business houses in US. The study says that infrastructure outsourcing reaps up to 27%... Continue Reading