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Indian offshoring giants walks a tightrope - The Mercury News
By boosting profile, Tata, one of India's leading providers of temporary labor and offshoring services to U.S. high-tech companies, raises risk of a backlash.

Jobs that stay here -- but not for Americans - The Mercury News
Not all the local jobs disappear when an Indian firm takes a software project to Bangalore. As many as 30 percent in a typical offshoring contract stay onshore, located right on the premises of U.S. technology companies.

The promise of offshoring - Network World Fusion
Lower costs, flexibility, expanded resources driving businesses to look overseas.

Delta axes offshore call center; Two deals remain in force - The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Delta Air Lines is dropping one of three offshoring contractors that supply call center services overseas.

Magazines and Newsletters

Managing the Changing ROI of Offshore Outsourcing - Managing Offshore
As the attrition rates and unit labor costs rise in many locations, the ROI from captive offshore outsourcing initiatives will increasingly undergo scrutiny in 2005. Increased costs and attrition have already prompted some interesting moves among the best-practice firms like GE, AON and American Express. What can the rest of us learn from their actions?

Five Reasons Why Offshore Outsourcing Projects Fail - Sterling Hoffman
Although the topic of outsourcing continues to grab headlines, the unspoken corporate code of silence on offshore outsourcing projects still holds relatively steady whether companies experience success or failure. A few companies, however, have stepped forward to publicly offer complete versions of their offshore outsourcing experiences. Their experiences reveal, as many have been quick to say all along, that offshore outsourcing sometimes does more harm than good. Below we describe the top five reasons why offshore outsourcing projects fail.

The Next Trend: Offshore Product Engineering - InformIT
Software engineers who build high-end products may believe that their jobs are safe from offshoring. That belief is mistaken.

Communicating An Offshore Strategy To Employees - Managing Offshore
It’s time corporations considered managing the emotional side of offshore outsourcing instead of just the financial side. The success of offshore projects depends heavily on the ability of companies to communicate with their employees and to encourage them to think differently about their jobs and overall corporate performance.

Offshore Outsourcing: Will Your Job Disappear in 2004? - InformIT
Offshore outsourcing is everywhere—boardrooms, newspapers, magazines, cable news, even chat groups. The noise quotient around offshore outsourcing is reaching epic proportions. This article outlines what's taking place in offshore outsourcing and its potential impact on your job.

Emerging Business Models in Offshore Outsourcing - Sterling Hoffman
Offshore outsourcing has surfaced as both a strategic and tactical method of meeting new business demands. Similar to most business ventures, the challenge of offshore outsourcing lies not in envisioning it but in executing it.

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