TAG: offshoring

M. M. Sathyanarayan, President - Global Development Consulting, Inc.

Even if you are successful in the beginning, over time issues begin to creep into your offshore operation; expectations are not met consistently. How do you assure continued success?

Today, outsourcing is mainstream and global and changing rapidly. Over the past year, many new risks have been brought to light. There's a new model for comprehensive risk monitoring.

Shashank Samant, President - GlobalLogic

Geoffrey Moore stated, "This is the century where we've got to play away games," meaning that, although the U.S. pioneered the outsourcing movement, we're still innovating for the "home market." We need to build global innovation systems that leverage local talent to access business opportunities in local markets.

Ashutosh Gupta, VP, Investment Research & Chief Transition Officer - EvalueServe & Surbhee Siroh, Manager, Investment Research - EvalueServe

During the last decade, among major economies, India has achieved consistently impressive growth, second only to China. In the first half of fiscal 2010-11, the Indian economy grew at a healthy rate of 8.9%. The USD-INR exchange rate is an important indicator of investor sentiment and can significantly impact not only the fortunes of individual firms and sectors but also the government. We believe there is a significant downside risk to the USD-INR exchange rate, and this article will explore some of the risk factors behind this.

Todd McKinnon, CEO - Okta

Startups are often strapped for cash and need to make business decisions with return on investment in mind. In a technology startup environment, that QA group in Bangalore - the one that comes in at half the cost - is very appealing. This is a classic mistake of being penny wise and pound foolish. Distributed teams can work for well defined and regimented work. But startups working on new, disruptive initiatives don't fall into that category.