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Hot on the heels of a TPI report that Indian outsourcing firms like Wipro, Tata and Infosys are taking market share away from the so-called Big Six — Accenture, IBM, HP, ACS, CSC and EDS — comes news that Accenture plans to add 8,000 employees in India this year, bringing its total headcount there to 35,000.
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For as long as we can remember, folks have been talking about China as the “next India.”
Every region of the world — from Latin America to Eastern Europe to Africa – wants to be the “next India.” Yet China seems to be the only country with the population, the skills and, perhaps most important, the drive to […]

Data from 2006’s 4Q appears to indicate two things: The world still has a strong appetite for outsourcing services from India. And attrition and a shortage of qualified workers are becoming serious problems for Indian outsourcing firms like Infosys, Wipro and Tata.
Those firms are doing what they can to boost worker ranks, including looking for recruits outside India’s borders.
A nonprofit called GramIT […]

With the piles of data that most companies are accumulating at a rapid clip and increasingly strict regulations on how it must be handled, storage and management are becoming hassles that many companies are happy to foist on someone else.
A recent TheInfoPro survey found that nearly 20 percent of Fortune 1000 outsource at least some aspects of […]

Companies with telecommuting workers can enjoy big savings on real estate. Many also find work-at-home programs an effective recruitment and retention tool, since telecommuting employees are often happier than their office-bound counterparts.
Some companies, like Convergys Corp., which is expanding its telecommuting program, say the practice gives them access to folks who might be great employees despite the […]