Country Attractiveness for Offshoring and Offshore Outsourcing: Additional Considerations

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kotlarsky ◽  
Ilan Oshri
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Strategic Intent ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Starting Point

In this article, we review aspects relating to the attractiveness of India for information technology offshore - outsourcing. Our starting point is that, indeed, India will remain competitive in the short-medium term. However, more importantly, we move on to argue that country attractiveness is becoming a less important issue. We consider an alternative approach to analyze country attractive in which the client's strategic intent behind going offshore and the vendor's global dispersedness and its local knowledge define the attractiveness of the firm's offshoring strategy.

Path Planning for Spheres in Three Dimensional Environments With Low Interference Index

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duane W. Storti ◽  
Debasish Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Path Planning ◽  
Free Path ◽  
Configuration Space ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Target Point ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Spherical Object ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Path Planning Problem

Abstract We consider the path planning problem for a spherical object moving through a three-dimensional environment composed of spherical obstacles. Given a starting point and a terminal or target point, we wish to determine a collision free path from start to target for the moving sphere. We define an interference index to count the number of configuration space obstacles whose surfaces interfere simultaneously. In this paper, we present algorithms for navigating the sphere when the interference index is ≤ 2. While a global calculation is necessary to characterize the environment as a whole, only local knowledge is needed for path construction.

Factors Influencing Performance of ITES Firms in India

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soni Agrawal ◽  
Kishor Goswami ◽  
Bani Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Factors Influencing

Firms from developed countries are increasingly offshore outsourcing services to developing countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. Although this is a growing practice, there has been limited empirical attention in understanding the outsourcing phenomenon, particularly from the perspective of service provider firms that execute important business processes for their overseas clients. Despite growing trends to outsource, only a few service provider firms report success. This puts the service provider firms under increasing pressure to add value and improve quality of relationship. They have to depend not only on tangible factors but some intangible factors also play an important role in their performance. In this paper, the authors try to find out factors that influence performance of service provider firms. Multiple regressions using four indicators of firm performance are carried out to see the influence of certain factors on information technology enabled service (ITES) firms’ performance.

Introduction

2000 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Steve Clarke ◽  
Brian Lehaney
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Activity Systems ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Consensus View ◽  
Human Participants ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Technical Considerations

This chapter seeks to cast light on the commonly encountered ‘human-centred’ versus ‘technology’ debate in information systems (IS: Clarke and Lehaney, 1998; Clarke and Lehaney, 1999; Lehaney, Clarke et al., 1999). It takes as its starting point a view which sees information systems as complex, adaptive, human activity systems, enabled by information technology (IT). Two approaches dominate in trying to understand such systems. The first redefines them as purely technical systems, for which a fixed and definable objective can be determined: from this point, the problem becomes one of design. The second approach sees the whole system through the views of the human participants: here, the problem initially is one of debate, aimed at determining a consensus view of the system of concern before moving on to designing relevant solutions. The technical view outlined above might be seen as an attempt to reduce the system’s complexity, by removing the voluntaristic, probabilistic behaviour which the human actors bring to the system. Once this is done, more technologically focused IS managers are on comfortable ground, having redefined the system as one which is highly deterministic, and for which a solution can be achieved through the design of a new or improved system. Similarly, the human-centred view may be seen as excluding technical considerations in order to reach agreement on the part of participants before proceeding further.

Information Technology Offshoring Outsourcing

2011 ◽  
pp. 122-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita Gupta ◽  
Narendra S. Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Job Growth ◽  
Software Development Methodologies ◽  
The U.S

Offshore outsourcing is a term covering a range of information technology (IT) and business services delivered to companies in developed countries by IT personnel based in developing countries. The significant cost savings achieved by the offshore model is the prime factor in its growing acceptance and use. IT software and service outsourcing is becoming a new reality for employers, employees, government and academicians. The widespread use of Internet, standardization of software development methodologies, efficient IT project management techniques, low cost of telecommunications, have provided the necessary thrust for global production of software and services. In this chapter, we analyze the impact of today’s offshore outsourcing movement to the United States economy, education, jobs, wages, and social issues. We suggest that offshoring is a viable economic model. It leads to improved productivity, lower inflation and eventually growth in jobs and wages. The U.S. will also see significant numbers of “in-sourced” jobs because of subsidiaries of foreign based companies. Future job growth in different areas of business and skills, require young students and present IT workforce to acquire them with education and training. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has also expressed the need to produce highly skilled workers. The loss of jobs of IT workers is the difficult aspect of offshoring. Laid-off workers should be provided assistance to find a new comparable job, both by the U.S. government and companies. In this chapter, we make some recommendations to reduce, minimize and overcome the hardships caused by the IT outsourcing.

Network Equipment Selection Scheme of University Informatization Construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 1575-1579
Author(s):  
Fang Fang ◽  
Xin Ge Luo
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Design System ◽  
Network System ◽  
Campus Network ◽  
Selection Scheme ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Network Equipment ◽  
Information Technology Development

With teaching and research of campus reliance on information technology is growing; the campus information technology development is also increasingly rapidly. Information system of campus should adapt to the campus’s long-term development plan, considering the economic conditions of campus to meet the needs of teaching and research as the fundamental starting point. Network system is the support platform of information technology. The selection of equipments is an important part of network system planning, including routers, switches, servers and other network security products, and so on. This paper described the three-layer design system. Each layer has different requirements for routers and switches. Based on the classification and the performance analysis of main network devices, this paper presented the principles and programs of the campus network construction in the purchase of network equipment should be followed.

Error management: implications for construction

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E.D. Love ◽  
Jim Smith
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Error Reporting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Error Management ◽  
Learning From Errors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Initial Starting

Purpose Conventional “wisdom” in construction has placed emphasis on error prevention and is often aligned with the concept of “Zero Vision”; improvements to safety and quality have been minimal. An alternative approach is needed to ensure significant improvements in safety and quality; thus, this paper aims to introduce the concept of error management. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the extant literature and draws upon the phenomenological research and observations experienced by the authors. Findings It is promulgated that if quality and safety performance within projects is to improve, then construction organisations and their management need to openly acknowledge their presence so that “learning from errors” can form an integral part of an organisation’s fabric. This will require the institutionalisation of error reporting and an organisational (shared) responsibility for their occurrence. Originality/value The concept of error management has not been addressed previously in the construction literature. The authors introduce the concept and provide implications for management. The observations and experiences presented in this paper provide an initial starting point for future research to explore “how” construction organisations and projects can avoid the negative error consequences and learn to prevent them in the future.

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