The NOA predicted that 2009 would be the year where we see a drop in businesses offshoring and possibly some organisations bringing already offshored processes back home. It appears that this prediction is already coming to fruition. The French government has announced that any car manufacturer that takes a share of the £5.5bn [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The risk of bringing processes back home
January 27, 2009Beyond Satyam
January 20, 2009I have been keenly watching, as we all have, the Satyam debacle over the last few weeks. Although this is an isolated incident, one does have to wonder what impact this will have on the Indian outsourcing market. This raises considerable corporate governance issues for many companies who outsource or are looking to outsource [...]
Captive selling to increase
January 13, 2009Happy New Year and welcome to my first blog of 2009!
A new year and a new acquisition for a major player in the outsourcing market as Wipro is set to buy Citigroup’s Indian IT subsidiary for $127 million. Last year I commented on TCS acquiring another Citigroup captive and highlighted the importance of [...]
