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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS PAPER ON OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING Submitted by: Rimzhim Mathur (2011IPM082) Satyajit Behera (2011IPM093) Pranshu Garg (2011IPM070) Siddharth Mohil (2011IPM106) Mridul Bhati (2011IPM051) OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING “Offshore outsourcing” is comparatively a new research area in international business field. Globalization and accelerated competition as well as ever increasing consumer demand for value have
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to either off shoring or offshore outsourcing. In India and China‚ companies like IBM‚ Microsoft‚ Hewlett Packard‚ and Novell choose to get services from sub-contractors in these countries or move their development and support jobs there. Outsourcing is to contract out some of company’s activities to a third party company. The company who outsourced and the third party who is going to handle the activities for the company are joined by means of an outsourcing arrangement. This practice became
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Recently‚ ANZ Banking Corporation has made a decision of outsourcing and offshoring a certain amount of jobs to minimize its increasing cost pressures. At the same time‚ critics doubted if the decision was a good choice as a cost cutting measure for the bank (Wade and Hawthorne 2012). There are ethical issues‚ security concerns and managerial control which need to be taken considerations for outsourcing and off-shoring. Soyref (2012) defined outsourcing as the provision by a third party to provide services
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resources that are not adequately available in house. Challenges: it includes gaining the respect and support from top management that is needed to acquire needed resources and get the job done. Other challenge is finding a reliable‚ competent outsourcing provider that is likely to stay in business for the long term- or at least the duration of the contract. Insourcing often involves bringing in specialists to fill temporary needs or training existing personnel to perform tasks that would otherwise
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Why did Boeing decided to extensively outsource its production? What are the benefits to Boeing from outsourcing? Boeing decided to outsource its production to maintain relations with foreign customers. Boeing realized that 80 percent of their customers were foreign airlines‚ and in order to nourish their business relationship they started outsourcing to those countries‚ with the hope that sales will remain stable or possibly increase. Moreover‚ they wanted suppliers who were the best in the world
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Ch. 1: Who Makes the Apple Iphone? 1. What are the benefits to Apple of outsourcing the assembly of the iPhone to foreign countries‚ and particularly China? What are the potential costs and risks to Apple? Some of the main benefits to Apple of outsourcing to particularly China are the following; -Cost advantages: this is the most obvious benefit of outsourcing. Apple can get their assembly in China done at a much lower cost compared to the US. Moreover‚ the low wages won’t hurt the quality of
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midsized companies either because of shortage of capital‚ right resource or other reasons fails to have excellent accounting records. Here is where accounting outsourcing comes into play. | | I have listed some of the benefits Outsourcing firms enjoy over maintaining an in-house accounting staff: | 1. Cost: Accounting outsourcing can save you between 30% to 60% than maintaining an in house accountant. Eg. Average salary of a bookkeeper in US is $ 32‚000 plus overheads cost plus payroll
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Introduction 3 Definition of Pros and Cons 6 Advantages 3 Disadvantages 6 Conclusion 8 References 8 INTRODUCTION Before you start outsourcing business operations‚ you should consider pros and cons of outsourcing. Often outsourcing is a way to save money‚ but there can be unexpected costs as well. The decision to oursource is certainly not one that any organization should enter into lightly. DEFINITION OF PROS AND CONS Pros
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believed in providing service straight from the heart‚ encouraging product leadership and delivering superior financial returns. There were several important issues that led to Cathay Pacific to outsource its IT operations to IBM. Events that led to Outsourcing of IT operations Cathay Pacific for long has been known as an Asian airline. Since its establishment‚ Cathay Pacific has been a profitable company with periodical growth. Cathay Pacific was one of the first to outsource its telecom networks to
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