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.

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December 14, 2008

A different take on shared services -- partner integration through global sourcing

A shared services environment is typically defined as one in which an internal organization is funded by and delivers IT and/or business process services to other groups within the same company.  It is the opposite of outsourcing.  Or, so I thought until a client told me about how his company is sharing its outsourcing capabilities and Infosys relationship with a key business partner.

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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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