offshoreindianews.blogspot.com – moving to www.coreadvisor.com/globalwise

DATE: Feb 12th, 2008
MOHIT SOAPBOX:
For subscribers and regular visitors to  offshoreindianews.blogspot.com, the site has been down for a few days now and apologies for that. Thanks to google, the site offshoreindianews.blogspot.com has disappeared into the Internet blackhole and I have no idea what happened. Google , I bet is working hard to fight microsoft, yahoo so [...]

A tough 2008 for infotech in India – You bet

Source: Times of India
Date: Feb 11th, 2008
Mohit SoapBox:
Yes.. I have been saying this all along that despite of the brave front the vendors have been putting, the global slowdown
is going to have a potential negative impact on growth in 2008. Then we had Gartner come up with a news release where they believe the IT [...]

Rethinking the India Back Office – Wall Street Article

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
DATE: Feb 11th, 2008
Mohit SoapBox:
The article explores the viability of Captives in India and are those the right model to go today. With a few captives looking to sell , or rumored to sell (Morgan Stanley denies their captive is for sale) this debate goes on. Are captives the right strategy for [...]

Offshoring: Coping with U.S.-India culture clash – CIO news story

SOURCE: CIO
DATE: Feb 2008
MOHIT SOAPBOX:
Dealing with cross cultural issues is always a challenge in outsourcing and offshoring engagements. A # of companies still look at this as a training exercise where the senior management wants the cultural training to be done but is very rarely budgeted for beyond some earlier transition stages.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Article by [...]

Is India loosing it’s offshore advantage – Forrester

SOURCE: EconomicTimes
Date: Feb 8th, 2008
My Soapbox
This article has very credible points on issues and challenges India is facing but I believe that some of the concerns the article talks about are more perception than reality. I have heard people talk about terrorism, natural disaster, social tension as cause of concern but not to an extent [...]

Is Morgan Stanley captive for sale in India ?

SOURCE: The Hindu Business Line
DATE: Feb 10th, 2008
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Morgan Stanley has denied that it is planning to sell the BPO unit, Morgan Stanley Advantage Service (MSAS). Based at Goregaon, Mumbai, the center supports Morgan Stanley businesses across the world. 

Deutsche Bank is in talks to acquire land in India to setup IT support facility

Source: EconomicTimes
Date: Feb 10th, 2008
ORIGINAL SOURCE
The 30-billion-euro Deutsche Bank is said to be in talks with Karnataka government to acquire 100 acres of prime land in Mangalore to set up its world’s largest IT infrastructure support facility.The proposed facility will comprise the bank’s largest data centre, disaster recovery centre, global network support centre and back-end [...]

Upcoming Outsourcing and Offshoring events – February 2008

Visit http://offshoreindianews.blogspot.com for updated info. 
February (Details on calendar on the blog: http://offshoreindianews.blogspot.com/
bottom of the page). This is a busy busy month for conferences. I am going to be in a few of these so a bit more travel

4th – 7th – Thomas Weisel Technology,Internet investor conference , San Franscisco,CA 
5th – Genpact CEO presenting at Sanford Bernstein, New [...]

BPO markets are under penetrated – Pramod Bhasin, CEO Genpact

DATE: FEB 5th, 2008
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I listened in today to Pramod Bhasin, Genpact CEO’s speak in New York at the Sanford Berstein investor luncheon… The topic of the discussion was growth and opportunities in BPO markets of tomorrow. He was joined by Rod Bourgeois, Sanford analyst who talked about the BPO, IT Services markets in general and [...]

Outsourcing and Offshoring news – Feb 5th, 2008

BPO markets are underpenetrated – Pramod Bhasin, Genpact
DATE: Feb 5th, 2008
I listened in today to Pramod Bhasin, Genpact CEO’s speak in New York at the Sanford Berstein investor luncheon… The topic of the discussion was growth and opportunities in BPO markets of tomorrow. He was joined by Rod Bourgeois, Sanford analyst who talked about [...]