India’s Outsourcing Status Under Threat

ndia’s stronghold on the shared services and outsourcing (SSO) sector, once fuelled by low-wage skilled workers, is now being challenged by other countries in the region such as China and Malaysia, according to a new study by Frost & Sullivan.Culled from interviews with 338 Fortune 500 and Forbes 200 companies, the survey found that structural factors such as low labor costs and abundant supply of relevant skills, helped ensure India remained the top destination for SSO activities. The study was conducted between February and June 2007, covering countries such as Singapore, China, Malaysia and the Philippines, and outlined global SSO activities across seven industry verticals including technology, business financial services industry (BFSI), logistics and healthcare.

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The Philippines’ Awesome Outsourcing Opportunity

The recent growth spurt in the outsourcing industry in the Philippines has been fueled not by traditional low-value-added call centers but more higher-end outsourcing such as legal services, Web design, medical transcription, software development, animation, and shared services. Though call centers still form the largest part of the sector, the Philippines has begun leveraging its creative design talent pool, its large pool of lawyers, and its professionals in accounting and finance.

“Philippines as a country offers us a unique talent pool for outsourcing services in legal as well as design services,” says Joseph Sigelman, co-president of India-based OfficeTiger, which was acquired by U.S. printing services giant R.R. Donnelley in April. The company chose the Philippines as the springboard for its legal services outsourcing and expects to make Manila the main center for “pre-media” outsourcing work, including desktop publishing, composition, typesetting, and graphic design.

FAMILIAR WITH U.S. Legal services were a natural extension of the outsourcing work the firm has been doing from its base in Chennai for years. “As an ex-American colony, there is cultural affinity and the legal system is based on U.S. law,” says Sigelman, a native of New York. “In Manila, every lawyer seems to know what Roe vs. Wade was about. In Chennai, they may have some of the finest legal brains in the world but not everyone has heard about Roe vs. Wade or other key cases in U.S. Supreme Court.” Most Filipino lawyers sit for U.S. bar exams and that gives Manila a leg-up over India, China, or Malaysia.

Design work is another place where Filipinos have and edge, according to Sigelman. He says he has found incredible depth of design talent in Manila; the kind of talent that is hard to come by in Bangalore, Hyderabad, or Chennai.

OfficeTiger’s clients include large insurance companies, retailers, and publishers of books and directories. OfficeTiger is looking at Philippines operations to provide 40% to 50% of its total annual revenue growth over the next three to five years.

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Best Social Networking Site Directory

Participating in social groups / networking sites are guaranteed to give boost to your traffic. Here is my list of the best social sites sorted by Page Rank:

PR 9

http://www.netscape.com
http://www.slashdot.org

PR 8

http://www.digg.com
http://del.icio.us
http://www.furl.net
http://technorati.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.rojo.com
http://www.squidoo.com
PR 7

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com
http://reddit.com
http://www.fark.com
http://www.43things.com
http://www.mister-wong.de
http://de.lirio.us
http://www.newsvine.com
http://www.blogmarks.net
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.simpy.com

Why the Philippines?

America Online, Citibank, NEC Telecom, Caltex, Fujitsu, Alitalia – the Philippines’ roster of outsourcing clients stretches from Japan to North America to Europe, and the scope of services that the country’s BPO firms deliver is equally extensive.

For years, the contact center sector has led the rapid growth of the country’s offshoring industry. In fact, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) projects its growth to double to 80,000 seats in 2005 from 40,000 seats in the previous year. Recent years, however, have seen both established brands and dynamic startups in the BPO, Software, Animation/Creative, Healthcare, Financial, and Engineering sectors catching up with the pace of the contact center industry, posting dramatic increases in growth indicators.

India is currently the top supplier of BPO services, but the Philippines is close behind. With its strategic business location, steady supply of competent workers, world-class telecom infrastructure, and investor-friendly government incentives, among other advantages, analysts say the Philippines could well be India’s leading challenger.

source: bpap.org

Outsource a Virtual Assistant

Too much work..so little time?

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A Virtual Personal Assistant is the answer to your prayers

 

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It would be like having an extension of yourself, that could extend the effort and attention to the things that you can’t seem to focus and concentrate on, if you have too much on your busy schedule. In short, this is the HELP you need to keep track of everything and take care of you personal obligations on line, to give you more time to enjoy and pursue your personal goals.

 

A virtual assistant does not only help you out personally, but professionally as well. They can assist you with your job, to ease up your work load. A VPA can assist you in almost anything through the internet. So, get your own virtual personal assistant at AOV outsourcing service, and move on to a relaxing and living easily.