Global Sourcing Blog

Welcome to the newly launched Infosys Global Sourcing Blog. As online media has grown more personal, the services sourcing world has also become more global. Some of the drivers are similar in both cases: better technology, easier collaboration tools, disintermediation and more globalization. And the way they are consumed is similar too: co-existence with traditional models (newspapers and TV in the case of media; traditional sourcing models in case of services), modular (mash-ups and personalization; modular sourcing) and dependent on maturity levels (new adopters typically leapfrog old methods; also based on readiness and past experience). These are happy coincidences!

Infosys has kept pace with and, in many cases, led the pack in terms of defining the ‘art of the possible’ in the IT and BPO services industry. We pioneered the Global Delivery Model more than two decades ago and have leveraged the Global Sourcing inflection points during Y2K, 2001-02 recession.

Now, in the present uncertainty, we are expanding the frontier of what Global Sourcing can deliver. More services (SaaS, Platform BPO), higher value-add activities (R&D, Engineering), multiple locations (Eastern Europe, China, South America) and transformational solutions are all part of this evolution. We helped Thomas Friedman coin the term ‘Flat World’ and practice what we preach – we are a truly flat world company that is global, innovates continuously and is helping clients win in the turns.

This blog is dedicated to furthering the art and science of global sourcing through conversation, thought, debate, comment and observation. We encourage participation from well-intentioned contributors to help us make this a lively and growing forum for the global sourcing community. This blog is not about Infosys – it is about you, the global sourcing practitioner, the visionary, the beneficiary, and other affected parties. We would like to welcome all shades of opinion and, in the process, demystify the concept and practice of Global Sourcing for all of us!

Happy blogging in the Globally Sourced Flat World…