Mention “outsourcing” to a programmer and you may as well be uttering profanity. The word suggests all the evils that have befallen the Information Technology sector since the Internet bubble burst a few years ago. We’ve been endlessly regaled with tragic tales of American companies who have clos

The buzz is all about customer service and call center outsourcing, also known as BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). According to Gartner, the outsourcing market in Europe has grown with over 6%, BPO with 10%. The market for offshore outsourcing (to low wage countries) is growing with a whopping

Outsourcing could be seen as a contemporary product of the network economy where an organization should focus on its strengths and leave its weaknesses to others. This is only possible as long the productivity is not at danger.

The term ‘productivity’ does not only origin from (self)

Some of you might be wondering what webmaster staffing means? So just to make it clear for everyone I’ll just give you a brief introduction. Webmaster staffing is also known as staff leasing or outsourcing. It is a company that hires agents who have skills in different fields of information tec

The online world is constantly evolving. You may be thinking about outsourcing your Web promotion to an expert who is immersed in this world as their fulltime occupation, rather than trying to acquire this knowledge yourself, and cope with the pace of change in-house.

So, what should you

The term offshore is used to describe foreign banks, corporations, investments, and deposits. A company may move offshore for the purpose of tax avoidance or relaxed regulations.

Data entry, data conversion, document and image processing, catalog processing, image enhancement, image editing

Most Americans are very concerned about the outsourcing of American corporate jobs and yet if your job has not been outsourced yet chances are you are not worried about it. But let me tell you, you should be because you quite possibly could be next.

Also consider that the average American i

Probably the biggest problem with being a small business owner is right there in that phrase. Small.

Small means few or no employees. Small means you end up doing most, if not all, business tasks yourself.

Whether or not you're any good at them.

But even if you ARE perfectly cap

The new book IT, Software and Services: Outsourcing and Offshoring by Robin Sood provides valuable insights to the world of outsourcing and offshoring for the software industry.

IT, Software and Services: Outsourcing and Offshoring is essential reading for the shrewd business le

When’s the last time you took a vacation? Can you remember the last time you actually stopped working to eat lunch or God forbid, took a sick day? Do you remember your kids’ names?

Ok, maybe that last one is a bit extreme, but let’s face it, as entrepreneurs, there is little time left for l