Long viewed as a tactical tool for reducing operations costs, global sourcing has now become a strategic activity through which companies can flexibly adapt to business change.

October 28, 2008

On-site / Offshore Staffing Ratios: Your Mileage May Vary

Just in time for the U.S. elections, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, released a report citing what Computerworld recently called a “…High Level of Fraud in H-1B Petitions.”  An examination of 250-plus applications found that 13% were fraudulent and 7% had errors.
Predictably the report has gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. business and IT industry press.  What is surprising, however, is that it was largely overlooked by the general news media, particularly given the quadrennial U.S. debate over immigration policies rages on. 

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August 21, 2008

Moving work offshore: It’s more than just numbers

Some time ago I got a call from a client I met at a conference last fall. His company had been acquired and he was part of a sourcing strategy team charged with reducing internal IT headcount. As they were asked to meet a target number that seemed unrealistic, he wanted to know the average number of jobs that mature outsourcers transfer offshore.

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