Items tagged with : Globalisation
Asia has so much more to offer
I was reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Tim Soutphommasane of Monash University about how each Australian generation seems to discove...
12 April 2012 | Australia, Asia/Pacific, South/Central Asia, Articles, All Columns,Australia – the really lucky country
I have been making a lot of calls lately only to get a voice message that says, “Sorry that I am not here to take your call, as I am in (insert Asian ...
23 September 2010 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, Australia, Global, All Columns,Building capacity to harness the potential of the IT/BPO industry
This column is guest co-authored by Dr PK Mukherjee, President and Managing Partner at Avasant, and Shobhit Patnaik, a consultant with Avasant. The...
10 May 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Can China's IT Services market live up to the hype?
Since 2006, China’s market for the outsourcing of technology services has experienced rapid growth and has been heralded as a challenger to India’s ma...
16 March 2012 | Articles, IT, Asia/Pacific, China, All Columns, South/Central Asia, India,Changing the World
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 Matt Barrie is the CEO of Freelancer.com, connecting buyers of pro...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Everything old is new again
The "invisible hand of the market" is the term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. The invisible hand ...
22 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,How will global events affect your business?
Prologue If you think you’re business is not a global business and prone to global events, think again. In today’s business world, it’s a much differ...
23 March 2011 | Articles, Global, All Columns,I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...
As I write, it’s early Saturday morning on the October long weekend. I am flying in a SAAB 340 turbo prop over southern New South Wales on my way to M...
08 October 2010 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,In the eye of the beholder?
While the grow of information technology outsourcing (ITO) in Europe is irrefutable there is always debate over its merits, both philosophically and r...
13 October 2010 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Interesting times for legal outsourcing
Last week I was honoured to chair the Legal, Regulatory Compliance Outsourcing Conference 2012 in London. I’ll be frank: I always find it rather nerv...
01 May 2012 | Articles, Legal, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Is outsourcing the right career choice for you?
Welcome to the reality: in today’s tough economic climate, transformational change is emerging as the key theme for the outsourcing industry. Most ind...
13 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Joseph E. Stiglitz: making globalisation work
For the most part this series has examined the big thinkers in economics who have influenced the development of modern outsourcing. This week I want t...
03 November 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,New Worlds
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 Global service providers are upping the ante on their investments in e...
28 September 2011 | China, Asia/Pacific, India, South/Central Asia, Articles, Finance & Accounting, Brazil, IT, Latin America, USA, North America / Caribbean, UK, Europe, Global, All Columns,Newly emerging offshore centres move centre-stage
A consistent theme at outsourcing conferences and the topic of discussion at seminars and web forums is the rise of China and India as outsourcing pow...
17 February 2012 | Articles, Egypt, South Africa, IT, Middle East/Africa, Mexico, Latin America, Other, Europe, Global, All Columns, South/Central Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Other, Asia/Pacific, China, Other,Nothing north of Watford
“Make it In America” is Obama’s newest jobs battle cry. Not to be undone, David Cameron went to Bangalore to push for jobs creation in Britain. With u...
21 September 2010 | Philippines, China, Asia/Pacific, India, South/Central Asia, USA, North America / Caribbean, UK, Europe, All Columns, Global, Articles, Sri Lanka,Op2i Outsourcing Survey 2008 Exec Summary
In October 2008 Op2i launched a survey to understand the state of the outsourcing market, given the current economic downturn and perceived view that ...
07 September 2010 | South/Central Asia, Middle East/Africa, North America / Caribbean, Europe, Resources, Latin America,Op2i Outsourcing Survey Report
In October 2008 Op2i launched a survey to understand the state of the outsourcing market, given the current economic downturn and perceived view that ...
07 September 2010 | Global, Asia/Pacific, South/Central Asia, Middle East/Africa, Latin America, North America / Caribbean, Europe, Resources,People for the future: a boardroom initiative!
I think we can very likely all agree that a unique combination of macro drivers, such as globalisation, demographic shifts, and volatile markets, will...
19 July 2011 | Articles, HR, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Chandran Nair
Chandran Nair is a Malaysia-born environmentalist, the founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), and an internationally recognised speaker ...
02 June 2011 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Other, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Duncan Aitchison, TPI
Duncan Aitchison is Partner President EMEA at business transformation and sourcing advisory firm TPI. We spoke with Duncan at the start of August to ...
09 August 2011 | Articles, Europe, France, Germany, UK, Other, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Ralph Geertsema, BT
Ralph Geertsema is Head of Finance Transformation at BT Group. In advance of Ralph's presentation to SSON's 11th Annual European Shared Serv...
26 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Global, All Columns,Resolve...
Our new cartoonist columnist Matt Heffron kicks off with a look at career progression opportunities in the age of globalisation...
03 February 2012 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Seeking growth beyond the eurozone: implications for Global Business Services
One of the fundamental benefits of being a member of the European Union is greater access to its markets for purposes of selling a firm’s good and ser...
28 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Seven Seismic Shifts
The HR profession is undergoing a revolution – indeed, several revolutions; as a number of different global trends converge. In this article, Zachary ...
15 December 2010 | Articles, HR, Global,Shareholder satisfaction in a low-growth economy
As 2011 fast draws to a close, most companies will have given thought to their plans for 2012. What revenue growth are you expecting next year? How ha...
25 November 2011 | Articles, Functions Other, Global, All Columns, China,Sourcing unravels in the Arab world
Just about anyone can write a piece about current events and even go so far to paint the future. Heaven knows that prophesy is seldom remembered or re...
02 February 2011 | Middle East/Africa, Articles, Egypt, Global, All Columns,Stage "n"… Ready or oblivious/evolution or revolution?
Somewhere in South East Asia the rain gently hits upon the window of the multi-story office building where people are intently engaged in providing se...
22 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Taking the Chair
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 Earlier this year Rajendra ‘Raji’ Pawar, co-founder and chairman of IT...
28 September 2011 | Global, South/Central Asia, Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, India, All Columns,Talent management and RPO in 2011
Talent acquisition frequently tests many companies, even those with a well-resourced HR function, yet it is quickly becoming a routine element of the ...
03 February 2011 | Articles, HR, Global, All Columns,The Roar of the Crowd
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 Over the past five years “crowdsourced” solutions have started to ...
28 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,The Talent Question
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 India might be the outsourcing heartland of the world but concerns a...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, South/Central Asia, India, All Columns,We ALL outsource something...
When people ask what I do for a living, and I reply that I work for SIG, an organisation that provides networking opportunities and the sharing of tho...
13 October 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Wish They Weren’t Here?
The anti-immigration lobby in the US is growing in strength and prominence. But what does this have to do with outsourcing? We take a look… Many of...
14 December 2010 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, USA, Latin America, India, Global,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
