Archive for January, 2008
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BPO chief to face action for violating night shift norms
SOURCE: Times of India DATE: January 30th, 2008 Som Mittal is also currently the NASSCOM president ARTICLE The head of a reputed Bangalore-based BPO, which saw one of its women employees raped and killed by the driver of the pick-up car in De
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Diligenta a subsidiary of TCS bags Rs 788 cr BPO contract
SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: January 31st, 2008 ARTICLE The country’s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) subsidiary Diligenta, a UK-based financial services authority-regulated, has won a business process outsourcing (BPO) cont
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Procurement Outsourcing on the Rise According to TPI-Sponsored Benchmark Report
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: January 30th, 2008 I came across an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal on Aberdeen group and vendor sponsored research and then I see this press release. The article in WSJ today interestingly mentions
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Invensys Selects Genpact to Provide F&A support
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: January 31st, 2008 Genpact (NYSE:G), which manages business processes for companies around the world, announced it has been selected by Invensys, a global industrial automation, transportation and controls company, t
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US recession seen to drive demand for BPO facilities here in Philippines
SOURCE: Manil Bulletin Online DATE: February 1st, 2008 ARTICLE Despite the appreciation of the peso, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) players in the Philippines are continuing to expand, projecting an annual growth of 40 percent to $ 7 billion t
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India pledges offshore data continuity as its internet capacity halves
SOURCE: FinanceWeek DATE: January 31st, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: There was a cable breakage yesterday in the middle east, Egypt region which had potentially severed major undersea cables and reduced internet access to India. A number of the larger pl
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Risk intelligent approach to outsourcing and offshoring
SOURCE: Continuity Central DATE: January 31st, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: I managed to read through the report by Deloitte on the 'Risk intelligent approach'. It is a good paper by Deloitte but did not find any new revelations in the paper. Most of it
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Offshoring real estate functions
SOURCE: RealComm DATE: January 31st, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: This is an interesting article particularly given the timing around the subprime crisis and a # of firms shutting down their mortgage operations. There has been a direct impact of the subp
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50 per cent of India’s internet connections disrupted
SOURCE: India Today DATE: January 30th, 2008 ARTICLE India's internet services have been hit badly as around 50 per cent of country's internet bandwidth is reported to be disrupted.As per the immediate reports of Headlines Today, a news chan
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NASSCOM blow to offshoring
SOURCE: VNUNet.com DATE: January 30th, 2008 I find this interesting because, the news clip and the report seem to say that the growth of Indian IT market will have an impact on international growth which I disagree with. I have not loo
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