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			<title><![CDATA[Do’s and Don'ts of Offshoring]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1387</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Lately, a few of the multinational companies have shifted their India base back to the United States. Salaries have been on the rise and employees with specialized skills here get approximately 60%-70% of salaries that they would normally get in the United States, along with the drop in efficiency that ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Zinnov]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:05:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Localization-The Holy Grail of Market Expansion]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1386</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I had a discussion with my friend (who is a journalist by profession and doesn’t appreciate management jargon) about my work and told her about a project I am working on, which involves identifying how companies localize. She wanted to know what localization is and I tried my best to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:58:40 -0700</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1386</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[From &quot;Made from India&quot; to &quot;Made for India&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1344</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For decades, the United States has been considered throughout the world as the "Land of Opportunities." The majority of the products built to date have addressed the customer needs of the US market, and this trend is set to continue. In the last decade or even prior to that, global ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:53:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshoring: Enabler for Mergers and Acquisitions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1300</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Organizations, on their quest to improve their competitive position in the market, access new market and improve the operational efficiency are using M&amp;A as a way to achieve these goals. The size and frequency of the deals have increased and so has the complexity of the integration process.People, process and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:34:07 -0700</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1300</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Real Estate – Touching new heights]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1281</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The real estate industry has emerged as one of the most happening industries in the country in the recent times. The industry got a major boost when government permitted 100% FDI in the infrastructure sector. Many foreign companies have since joined hands with domestic players to exploit the huge growth ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:08:56 -0700</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1281</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[IT Sector – Growth Bytes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1280</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The latest performances of IT majors do suggest that the Indian IT story is still going strong. Though the IT sector is yet to catch up with its other industry counterparts in terms of net sales (as no single IT company figures in the top 10 of the Top 500 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:02:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Deciding offshoring suitability]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1276</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many is the time when the offshoring initiative fails or does not create optimal impact because of lack of knowledge and understanding of the offshoring suitability and offshoring roadmap of various products/applications/processes. What is required is to clearly assess the level of complexity attached to each product/application/process, to the most ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:09:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The rise and fall of KPO in Tier I Campuses]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1275</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this blog, I want to touch upon the subject of the attractiveness of the KPO companies in Tier I campuses. It is generally perceived that the sellability of KPOs has decreased considerably in IITs and IIMs. The blue eyed boys of the 2001-04 have suffered a serious dent in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPO&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:07:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Organizations should relook at the distribution of their senior management team]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1269</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We often notice that large multi-national companies have positioned more than 20% of their talent pool in global centers but only 2% of the senior management teams in these centers. With lack of leadership bandwidth in these centers, the team relies heavily on the corporate headquarters for decision-making. Here are ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[F&amp;A&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:08:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Improving Team Productivity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1263</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Productivity is one of the most bandied about terms in today's Organization. There are various ways of measuring productivity and these measurements vary by Industry. It is relatively easier to measure productivity in a manufacturing organization than in a Service Organization. In a manufacturing set-up, productivity can be measured by ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:08:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eating Out -- An everyday chore]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1262</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a working woman, I am always on a look out for ready-to-make food in supermarket and was surprised to see how many new brands have come up with inventive "healthy" food items. The changing life style has created a global demand for healthy alternative food to home cooked meals. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:03:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blogs and knowledge management]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1261</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody — either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action," said Peter F. Drucker. In recent times, weblogs (or blogs) are proving to be a useful tool to knowledge workers ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:01:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HR outsourcing stepping ahead]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1258</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Following the footsteps of Information technology there has been a boom in the HRO industry. With 2.75 million HR staff currently under direct operation in HRO (globally) and a worldwide market of about $70 Billion USD (approx). This is not at all surprising. HRO enables prompt and efficient delivery, automated ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Opening up India Inc. to research and innovation...]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1257</link>
			<description><![CDATA[India Inc is witnessing a boom in R&amp;D spending in various sectors. According to Booz Allen Hamilton, R&amp;D spending in India has grown by 17% in 2006. whereas, comparative figures in the United States and Europe is only 5.2% and 2.3% respectively. With globalization, Indian corporate segments experience more and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[To be Reactive or to be Active]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1250</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Working on my current project has made me realize how easy it is to lose the focus while running a company. This is particularly seen during the good times. If a company is making money, management tends to get complacent. A good example could be various regional airlines in the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:07:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Making the Right Vendor Selection]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1249</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many a times, companies end up choosing wrong vendor for their requirements -– IT service, IT R&amp;D, QA or BPO. While choosing a vendor for specific business requirements, companies need to look for organization and business alignment attributes, in order to make the right selection, such as:Management expertiseRelevant domain expertise ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:06:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Building a bottom-up innovation culture]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1248</link>
			<description><![CDATA[India has not seen any significant product innovations in the last few centuries. The current education system, socialistic background, inadequate awareness on intellectual property and the current economic boom driven by services-oriented industries are some of the constraints against creating a product innovation driven growth in India.An organization created in ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Zinnov]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:08:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing: Will it be affected by Democrats Win?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1247</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Democrats have won in the recent US elections. Is this a cause for worry for the Indian IT enabled services (ITES) industry? In the run up to the US Presidential elections in 2004, there was a lot of anti-outsourcing slogans doing the rounds. The Democrats did also bring about ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Jobs&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1247</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Importance of HR function in Indian subsidiaries of MNC organizations]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1243</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Most US companies underestimate the importance of a strong HR function in India when they set up their own centers. The people function in India has its unique needs due to the combination of the uniqueness of the culture, need for structured capability improvement programs and nascent stage of today’s ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:11:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Analytics – India’s Looming talent shortage]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1242</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In recent years analytics has evolved as a set of metric to measure effectiveness of business operations in customer experience, Operations and return on investment. The Web analytics market alone grew a healthy 13% in 2004 and is expected to grow to nearly $400 million by the end of 2008.Companies ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:10:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How does the future look?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1241</link>
			<description><![CDATA[India’s telecom infrastructure is scaling up to new heights and is now ready for remote infrastructure work. Since the government monopoly in the telecom sector was lifted in 1998, Indian government has taken several initiativess to spur investment in the telecom sector. And while there is always a race between ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:06:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Managed from India – The new era has begun]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1240</link>
			<description><![CDATA[HCL Technologies recently introduced a service under which it will remotely upgrade business computers to Windows Vista from its offshore facilities. The “Zero Touch” desktop deployment, as HCL calls it, is completely automated and will allow businesses to cut Vista installation costs by 40%.Today, IT service providers of all stripes ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:05:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Failure of Vendor Relationships]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1239</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon to find companies unsatisfied with their relationship with IT and BPO vendors. Most companies end with a trial and error method, losing significant money and time in the process. What is important for them is to analyze the problems in detail and to figure out the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:59:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IT outsourcing buyers should explain their business to service providers]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1238</link>
			<description><![CDATA[IT outsourcing buyers should start looking beyond just cost savings and looking at ways their offshoring/outsourcing service providers can add value. Looking at offshoring initiatives as only a cost savings effort will significantly impact these organizations’ ability to initiate improvements in their business process and react quickly to business changes. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:55:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Unwired Revolution]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1236</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a telecom revolution sweeping India, and unlike many countries it is through the “Unwired” or “Wireless” route. The penetration of telephone when we just had landline phones (wired) in our country was lower than 2%. Having a phone was considered a privilege of sorts. While today triggered by ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:05:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Are Indian medical students outsourced to China?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1235</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It looks like thousands of students from India are flying to China to pursue their graduation in medicine. Isn’t it shocking? The Indian embassy in Beijing has provided an estimation of 4,000 to 10,000 medical students from India enroll their name every year with the embassy.The private medical universities fees ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:18:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can US software companies help create the customer base in India?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1232</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In spite of the rapidly growing economy in India and China, a large percentage of revenue generated by technology companies comes by selling to large US enterprises. There are a small number of large enterprises emerging from India in areas such as telecom (Airtel, Reliance), banking (ICICI) and retail (Reliance). ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:04:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshore R&amp;D Center of Excellence: Myth or Reality]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1231</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many of our customers envision a Center of Excellence at the offshore center during the initiation of their offshoring initiative. Even though the intent is right, many companies don’t succeed in their attempt to set up the offshore center of excellence. We have analyzed the reasons in details. Here are ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:02:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lack of urgency: Common complaint about offshore engineers]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1229</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the common complaints we hear from companies that outsource to offshore locations is that the offshore engineers lack the sense of urgency to get things done. This is a valid concern, but many companies don’t analyze the reasons for the lack of urgency in the offshore engineers. One ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Jobs&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:03:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Returning Indians Should Take Entrepreneurial Risks]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[India has seen a large number of expat influxes in the last few years. The expatriates usually come with a breadth of technology and business expertise. Many of them have experience working as part of startup management teams in the United States and United Kingdom.However, the expatriate who returns to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:10:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[R&amp;D offshoring: Minimum offshore team size]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1225</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Often start-up companies ask what the minimum offshore team size is that they should start with. Our advice is to look at offshore options only when they can afford a team of 10 people at the offshore location. Team size smaller than that doesn't justify the management overhead involved in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:26:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Travel as a measure of R&amp;D offshoring success]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1224</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Managing offshore R&amp;D centers is a complex process, especially when it involves centers that are designed as a matrix organization. When the general managers of India center don’t travel often to the other centers, it reduces their ability to form relationship with their US teams, which in turn impairs their ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:24:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tier 3 cities: The next battleground for talent]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1223</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Large Indian companies have invested in Tier 3 cities such as Bhuvaneswar and Trivandrum over the last 10 years. The growth rate in these cities was slow compared to the larger cities. The reasons were primarily due to difficulty in attracting talent and the lack of infrastructure. The ecosystem in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:21:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Outsourcing to India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1213</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This presentation -- a brief overview of healthcare outsourcing in India -- provides a summary view of the current state of the industry and what trends are surfacing. ]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPO&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:26:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gain Value by Integrating Service Providers in Your Org's DNA]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1202</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Often companies reduce their innovation capabilities when they outsource part of their business to an outsourcing provider. The outsourcing provider’s charter is to continuously optimize the processes or projects that is outsourced to them and think of newer ways to solve the business problems that the current processes and IT ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:53:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Extracting Value from offshoring relationships]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1194</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The cost of offshoring engagements is steadily increasing and many companies have started to realize that their net savings from the initiatives are lower than what they had initially planned. There are a number of factors that should be negotiated with the vendor to improve the cost savings such as ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:21:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Landscape in India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1174</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Key findings of our research are:Research (lead identification) is generally not outsourced, and discovery (lead generation and optimization) outsourcing is evolving in India. India scores very high on clinical data management and site management outsourcing. The costs of clinical trials in R&amp;D can be reduced by 35%-50% by using contract ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:39:48 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Responsibilities in Offshore Centers]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1157</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Multinational companies that had started India development centers over the last decade are increasingly facing pressure to integrate the India centers with their organization tightly and not treat them as low cost centers.The centers which are run as low cost centers have seen the rate of employee attrition increase due ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:32:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Focus on resource capability development at India R&amp;D centers]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1151</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The increase in the number of technology companies with research and development centers in India saw a rapid growth in the last couple of years. This resulted in an acute shortage of resources with experience in building technology products and the mind set to think through problems from customer perspective.Innovation ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:33:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[PwC offshoring report on risks and rewards]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PwC recently released an excellent survey report discussing the risks and rewards of offshoring (a must read for financial services executives). You can access the report here.While most comments on the report centered on lack of cost saving initially or no savings even after 5 years for few companies, the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[F&amp;A&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:05:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Blogger: Zinnov]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1120</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Zinnov is an offshore research and consulting company with offices in the United States and India. We started Zinnov with a mission to be the premier provider of consulting services for global information technology initiatives. We help our clients to reduce the time, money and risks involved in offshore initiatives ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Blogger Bios]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:29:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global responsiblities to offshore centers]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1122</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Multinational companies that had started India development centers over the last decade are increasingly facing pressure to integrate the India centers with their organization tightly and not treat them as low cost centers.The centers which are run as low cost centers have seen the rate of employee attrition increase due ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:35:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Constraints that hamper innovation in India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1121</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Indian software industry has not come up with ground breaking software innovations even though the software industry in India is the one of the fastest growing industry globally. Countries with a smaller installer software developer base have been able to build companies such as Skype.Here are some of the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:33:44 -0700</pubDate>
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