Would You Actually Outsource to These Countries?
BusinessWeek highlighted ten new countries on A.T. Kearney’s list of top offshore outsourcing destinations.
Other A.T. Kearney debutantes included
Yes,
Here at CIO, we publish an offshore outsourcing guide of own. The last time we researched offshore hot spots (last summer),
A comprehensive, ordered list like A.T. Kearney’s has its merits. The problem is that it’s geared toward IT services providers and other potential investors in these regions, not to would-be buyers of offshore IT services (read: you). Some of the data they base their rankings on are germane to CIO readers. Most of it is tangential.
IT research houses like Gartner and Forrester and outsourcing consultants like neoIT offer a fair amount of research geared toward the IT leader on specific outsourcing locales, but coverage of areas like Africa or the Middle East are spotty at best. (Of course, sometimes they surprise you. A few months ago, Gartner came out of the nowhere with some information on Cuba
IT publications like us try to bridge the gap. But truth be told, we’re heavily reliant on those third-party sources of information cited above. We use our reporting and research skills, and our experiences talking to actual IT leaders who offshore, to tease out the most accurate information we can. But no matter how many times I get you to click on this page, CIO magazine is never going to shell out enough money to send me on a round-the-world trip to get the real scoop on the state of global IT services providers. So we work with what we have.
Which brings me back to
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