Stories about: Wipro

The collapse of Wall Street may prompt financial services firms to increase their use of offshore outsourcing and cut more jobs in the US on top of the layoffs they have already announced.

Sriram Raghavan and Ravi Rangan of Comat Technologies believe that willingness to adopt IT and a sense of ownership are crucial for e-governance initiatives.

Bill Piatt, CIO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC),sits in his Washington, DC, office just three floors above the company's primary data centre. But for all he cares, that server room could be halfway around the globe. After all, many of the people who manage that infrastructure are

The World Is Not Flat. There. I've said it.

It's a common scenario: the IT service provider meets all its SLAs and holds to all the pricing models... but the customer still isn't happy. Something just isn't right. As one outsourcing advisor describes it, "You look at the dashboard and everything is green. But you still feel red."

This week Wipro announced that it's snapping up U.S.-based infrastructure management provider InfoCrossing for $600 million.

It's that time of year when the well-known outsourcing advisory firms — all two of them — provide their second quarter analyses of the outsourcing market.

Nandan Nilekani, CEO of the outsourcing firm Infosys and the man who inspired the phrase "the world is flat", is pushing a new mantra that could become just as universal: "Work will be done where it makes the most sense."

Over the past decade, China and India have become leaders in high-tech manufacturing and IT services, respectively. But could either country - or an allied "Chindia" - overtake the US as the global high-tech leader within the next 10 years?

In all the world's religious cultures, particularly the most extreme, every adherent knows exactly what constitutes acceptable behaviour. There is usually a rigid hierarchy, and everyone shares a language, set of ideas and beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, rituals and ceremonies. Typically, the culture was defined so long ago that no living person has any real idea how the habits and practices now considered the norm evolved. And typically, that does not matter one whit, because everyone knows what they need to know: if they move beyond those norms they will be ostracized.

Since day one the issue of offshoring has been a scratchy one, raising both eyebrows and hackles. And now, with some organizations chafing three-to-four years into their offshore contracts, apparently there's a real itch to scratch.