Software Outsourcing in China Hindered by IT Talent Shortage

February 21st, 2006 Industry experts at the meeting of Nasscom, India’s outsourcing alliance, said on Thursday that skills shortage was the biggest threat to the outsourcing industry’s blazing growth. From ground zero I am observing several interesting effects of this shortage.

May 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - US President Barack Obama's announcement to end tax sops to those US firms outsourcing jobs to countries like India has come under flak from Phil Harkins, a leading US management expert and chief executive of Linkage Inc, a global firm specialising in leadership development 'What Obama is doing is just politics. It's the arrogance of the US to think creating jobs overseas will result in job losses back home.

March 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A downturn in worldwide economy, Satyam's fraud case and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and supply chain and shipping cost issues in China are causing US technology companies to pull back from the two traditional outsourcing locations. Citing these three global factors, an annual survey by BDO Seidman, LLP, one of America's leading accounting and consulting organizations, Tuesday suggested several technology firms would choose US as future outsourcing location over India and China.

March 25th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - An eight-member delegation from China's Shenyang city Wednesday visited the information technology campus Technopark here to pick up tips on software outsourcing. The officials from the Shenyang Information Industry Bureau (SIIB) said they would study Kerala's software outsourcing services to set up similar parks back home.

January 24th, 2004 Lets take a look at outsourcing from a global perspective. I have outsourced work and now provide outsourcing services.

February 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - India can rightly be called the back office of the world for its achievements in Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled services, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Mao Siwei said Sunday. 'Now China is called the 'factory of the world,' while India the 'back office of the world'.

April 20th, 2006 The first quarter of 2006 has seen the global outsourcing industry posting a record performance. The segment saw $22.7 billion in total contract value (TCV) for contracts valued at $50 million or more, up 173% y-o-y, comprising a record number of 83 outsourcing transactions, according to TPI Index, a quarterly report on the state of the global outsourcing industry by sourcing advisory firm TPI Inc.

October 20th, 2005 Blogger Rajneesh thinks its funny to outsource homework to India. In reality homework do get outsourced to India rather frequently.

June 4th, 2007 All hell breaks loose! Imagine this: "Most of us are only pretending to work while secretly hoping the project gets canceled after you get fired by the board". Today's Dilbert is a bit of fresh air after days of stale Elbonian humor on outsourcing.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Third party logistics outsourcing business in India will grow to $90 million from the present $58 million by 2012, according to a study released Monday. Presently around 55 percent of Indian companies are outsourcing logistic services like supply chain management and warehousing, said the study by the Associated Chamber of commerce and Industry (Assocham).

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON - India's software industry has opposed a US bill that seeks to make it mandatory for American companies to fill vacancies with locals before turning to skilled foreign workers. 'The stated objective of the bill is to prevent fraud and visa abuse.

December 14th, 2007 I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience.

April 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Despite the economic slowdown, Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing division of IT giant Wipro Technologies, is hiring personnel and expanding its operations globally, a top official said here Tuesday.'For the last six months, we have been hearing depressing news about people losing jobs and companies resorting to cost-cutting measures but we are still looking for people,' Wipro BPO head Ashutosh Vaidya told reporters. The company plans to expand its BPO facility in Hyderabad by recruiting 1,000 to 1,200 people over the next six to eight months, he said.

April 20th, 2009 MOHALI - Smartdata enterprises, an offshore software outsourcing company, has expertise in web and software applications development in the ever-growing software development offshore outsourcing global market. In 1996, SmartData Enterprises Incorporation, a consulting company was formed in Silicon Valley, California.

April 3rd, 2005 Indian Outsourcing industry is increasingly turning towards software testing. In fact we have started providing software testing services to customers from 2005.