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Crux of Offshoring – RISKS
Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail. Risk planning is the most critical activity of offshoring. Below are various risks that needs to be assessed at regular intervals. If all risks are not addressed...
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Locking Metrics is Key to Offshore Success
Companies should extend their software metric system to the offshore team. Common measurement methods include Function Points, KLOC, Story points, defect density. If you do not have any of these you...
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Legal consideration of Offshoring
IP Protection: Degree to which IP protection (WTO–TRIPs) are imposed vary from country to country. Patents are not recognized in many countries. Software piracy is rampant in most outsourced...
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Vendor OR Captive OR Joint Venture OR BOT dilemma ??
You can use the below comparison table to not only select your model, but also identify and track key risk during the offshoring life cycle. Disadvantages of a model can be overcome by having a strong...
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Building your Offshore team
Broadly there are two stages of outsourcing. Planning and Setup. Stages and its activities are iterative and can be executed in parallel. Planning is the most important stage of outsourcing. Everyone...
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Setting up Offshore center
Knowledge Transfer should include documenting, face to face meetings, self learning/discovering, on the job training, mentoring, buddy system and assessments. Different areas of KT include Domain,...
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Key planning activities before you outsource
Strategic goals: It is important to articulate the short term and medium term goals. What might start as cost saving initiative could lead to value generation center. Short term goal normally cover 1st...
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Identifying an Outsourcing partner
Identifying country to offshore: Country to offshore is selected based on three parameter Costs – Wages, real estate, infrastructure, tax, legal, travel Labor – Skill availability, education, attrition...
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Stats on Captives in India
India is the most preferred outsourcing destination. Over 750 (out of 3000+ world wide) captives are based in India India accounted for 33% of total world wide new captive announcements in Q1 2010...
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Mainframes, desktop, internet, laptop, mobile device.. What the heck is...
All these have revolutionized the way we think and work. While few (business) capitalized on the new opportunities thrown by these changes, rest perished. Consumers are getting more for less – Devices...
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