Archive for March, 2010
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Advanstar to outsource work to HCL, around 100 positions affected in Duluth, MN
SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune DATE: March 31st, 2010 Advanstar Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it will begin eliminating about 100 jobs in Duluth in six months’ time. Their work —producing trade magazines directories and other specialty
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Conseco moves 20 jobs to EXL center in India
SOURCE: Indianapolis Business Journal DATE: March 31st, 2010 Conseco an insurance provider moved around 20 jobs in their customer services interaction department to the center they have established with EXL in India late last year. This affects
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Business Virtualization – Moving to an outsourcing model
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal DATE: March 31st, 2010 Views by Deepak J. Patel is chief executive, Aditya Birla Minacs on how the outsourcing industry is changing and acceptance of outsourcing as new way of doing business. MORE...
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Accenture to do large scale restructuring in their Indian Operations ?
SOURCE: CNBC- TV18 DATE: March 22nd, 2010 If the source is to be believed, Accenture has seen large scale voluntary attrition in their Indian center. According to this report: Increments at Accenture after 4500 workers quit , close to 4,500 pe
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Telecom giant BT to outsource some legal work to UnitedLex in India
SOURCE: Legally India DATE: March 30th, 2010 UnitedLex, a Legal Processing Outsourcing (LPO) firm has won a contract with telecom major BT to take part of the inhouse legal work and deliver that from India. The team will start with 15 people
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Accenture Q2 2010 results – facts, metrics & learnings
DATE: March 30th, 2010 Accenture Earnings – Quarter ending 2/28/2010 Release Date : March 25th, 2010 FACTS Management Consulting - Demand continues primarily in strategic sourcing and customer relationship management in addition to ris
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HCL launches Center of Excellence with Boeing in Chennai
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: March 30th, 2010 The Boeing Company and HCL Technologies Ltd. [HCL] have inaugurated a new Center of Excellence to support test and evaluation operations at Boeing. Specifically, the facility will provide engineer
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Genpact looking to expand footprint in Japan, signs up Hikari Tsushin Inc
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: March 30th, 2010 Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a leader in managing business processes, and Hello Communications Inc., a 100% subsidiary of Hikari Tsushin Inc. (1st Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange) today announced the sig
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Numb3rs: Headcount of US based global firms
SOURCE: Poughkeepsie Journal DATE: March 29th, 2010 IBM which has recently stopped disclosing the breakup of their headcount across the globe has raised a lot of flags amongst folks seeing that as an accelerated trend to move work offshore.
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UK Revenue & Customs begins offshoring pilot with Capgemini
SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 30th, 2010 UK’s tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs, is beginning an offshore outsourcing pilot in India with technology vendor Capgemini to reduce operational costs and explore ways to do more with its o
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