
Nearshore Nexus… not to be nixed
Kirk Laughlin is beaming up the nearshore superstars in New York on April 19th

Obama’s in-sourcing initiative: does it have the teeth to rescue the US IT industry?
As per usual, election year brings up the age-old argument about how to combat the “threat” of outsourcing. Isn’t now the time, in an election year, to stop the rhetoric and actually make commitments to growing local industries that have a direct impact?

Infy procures Portland to soup up its sourcing
InfosysBPO has made its first substantial investment in the sourcing and category management space, picking up the lead Australasian provider Portland Group for $37m.

It may be for life, but will there be innovation, as TCS inks the mother of all insurance BPO deals
For better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, until many missed SLAs do us part. Imagine committing to someone for 15 years? Most marriages are long-divorced by that stage, companies rise and fall, entire countries are created, invaded and may even go bankrupt… So how about standardizing life assurance and pension policies for said […]

Sourcing to Latin America: Everything you ever needed to know in 60 minutes
Join us for a Webinar on June 2 at 11:00 am ET If you follow us closely, you’ve probably already read our research study on the Latin American global sourcing industry, The Latin America Sourcing Landscape in 2011: How Latin America Powers Global Services Delivery. After that taste of the study, we’re sure you’ll want more. […]

Genpact spurns its suitors to IT-enable its BPO, with India’s third largest acquisition
So why did Genpact buy Headstrong, in the third-largest acquisition ever made by an India-based provider, since Wipro picked up InfoCrossing for a cool $600m in 2007, and HCL-Axon for a similar sum, the following year? And, most importantly, what does…

New HfS Report: “How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery”
Latin American strategies underpin global delivery with increasingly mature services: Firms investigating service delivery from the region like the cultural familiarity bred by the influence of the US and Europe. Find out “How Latin America Powers Glob…

Egypt’s crisis: where social media threatens global outsourcing
When the first response of the government, in times of political crisis, is to shut down the Web, this has a massive impact on the nation’s global sourcing infrastructure to support global businesses.

Global Sourcing Buyers: Tread Carefully Through Europe
Buyers care where their providers are because stability, talent pool, infrastructure and the business and legal environment, determine how successful the relationship is going to be. Central and Eastern Europe is a fragmented region where cost, quality…

Finding a needle in 20 million haystacks: CERN’s Computing Grid creates a vision for Cloud Business Services
In order to understand the business potential of Cloud-esque environments to drive innovation, you could do a lot worse than have a look at the scientists who’ve been using their own version of Cloud for years: Grid Computing. When you get into area…