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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew Outsourcing. You may love it or hate it, but you cannot avoid it. Global businesses, in their search for their core competencies, are finding out ways to bring out the best in them in the [...]
Ignore this blog if you are outsourcing for the short-term and looking to wrap up a project quickly. If you are thinking long-term outsourcing, then you need to know that you are embarking on a strategic move, which, if managed well, will earn you (and your business) a life-long partner who will stand by you [...]
If I had a penny every time I was told to think outside the box, I would be giving millions away like Bill Gates. At Suyati, we are a product development company with focus on creating dedicated teams specific to the IT requirements of our clients. Our experience has taught us that our clients need [...]
After having discussed the costs and risks of setting up operations in India as well as IT Outsourcing as a long term alternative, we will now take a look at the happy medium: IT outsourcing as an intermediate stage towards setting up an operation in India. This approach is especially convenient for SMEs that are [...]
For small and medium-sized companies, setting up an operation in India can be a long and rocky road. Because it is hard to predict whether this investment of time and money as well as the administrative efforts are worthwhile, most small and medium-sized enterprises decide to partner with an IT outsourcing vendor instead. Indeed, IT [...]
The fact that companies like IBM, Daimler and Bosch are operating facilities in India since several years, reveal that their investments (and calculated risk) have proven to be good. But is it also advisable for small and medium-sized enterprises to immediately set up an operational base in India? The inevitable answer: It depends! The success [...]
Last week we posted 4 questions every CEO needs to ask his IT outsourcing vendor. But frankly, a CEO needs to ask only one question – why is your rate so low? Global parity has ensured that low wages is something that you can only dream about. With IT professionals able to pick and choose [...]
The last time I checked, Amazon.com had 4873 books on IT outsourcing. That is a lot of ink wasted on something that ought to be obvious and intuitive! Outsourcing your IT work is a no-brainer. But choosing the right outsourcing vendor who will partner with you to grow your business is not. Here are 4 [...]
Germany and India: Two vastly diverse and different cultures, yet uniquely similar in several ways. Although it may seem that the “pedantic Germans” and “unstructured Indians” do not have much in common, cooperation between the two countries can be greatly fruitful. Yes! This is possible if one were to use the synergies stemming directly from [...]
The ever popular (and evergreen) book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is an inquiry into the values that govern our life. The author Robert Persig tries to reconcile two divergent approaches to bike maintenance, and life in general. The first approach is the “Romantic” approach to life adopted by the author’s friend John [...]
SAP, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, employ more staff in India than in any other country. TCS, Infosys and Wipro are working with several hundred thousand employees primarily for the non-Indian market. The population of India is about 1.2 billion, with an average age of 25.3 years (in Germany the average age is about 43.8 years). [...]
Our recent trip to Germany for CeBIT in Hannover gave us insight into the mindset of IT entrepreneurs and decision makers towards outsourcing to India. We met CEO’s and CIO’s of various Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) from all around the world – USA, Europe, South America.
As 2010 comes to a close and businesses take stock of their outsourcing needs for the New Year, it is time for us to get back to basics. If you and your team can comfortably say “Yes” to the following questions, then you are ready to take that “leap of faith” and start opening up [...]
Innovative sourcing is In! In an earlier blog, “Outsourcing for Talent – why it pays to be truly Global” we mentioned how companies around the world are realizing that being part of a truly global marketplace means that business products and services can be created globally anywhere and marketed locally.
Cloud Computing is heralding a wind of change in the outsourcing world. Will it change outsourcing as we know it, or is it just old wine in a new outsourcing bottle? Image from www.mohamedfawzy.com Before I confuse you with too many metaphors and similes, let’s get the definition of cloud computing down pat. What is [...]
This blog is directed to those of us in the IT industry who are tired of wading through the hype. And to those who need a laugh! Okay, to everyone in the IT industry! Every year, without fail, the latest technologies and buzzwords promise instant transformational gratification! And ROI! And increased efficiencies! And happiness! And [...]
A recent Zinnov study estimates the global cloud computing market to be over USD 70 billion by 2015. The study also pointed out that India, with its powerful ecosystem of over 1300 independent software vendors (ISVs), 1.4 million developers and more than 11000 system integrators (SIs and Custom software development organizations), is ideally poised to [...]
Kochi, March 19, 2009: Today, Suyati Technologies Private Limited, founded by Mukund Krishna, announced the start of its operations in Infopark, Kochi. In 2005, Mukund Krishna founded and managed Ind-Sigma, a subsidiary of the US based Sigma-Micro (now Fifth Gear) a catalogue, mail order and ecommerce company with a rich 25 year old history. Mukund and [...]