Friday, July 31, 2009

Outsourcing: a cure to financial crisis

In this rat race for survival, most people cheat their way into expand their business horizons, but nothing will ever overthrow Great Business Planning. It forms the framework from which every good business emanates. Without a firm and strong foundation, your business is bound to fail.

The reliability of outsourcing industry roots from the luscious facilities it offers to the clients. The general thinking was that outsourcing has been experiencing major cut-offs because of the financial crisis. But there is actually an escalation of business inflow in the outsourcing direction. Cost effectiveness stands out to be the most desirable thing as this is exactly what outsourcing advocates. The only vertical which would suffer may be the call center industry as it becomes the first to vanish when cutting down business processes progresses. It is, after all, not exactly an income churner.

Small businesses are turning to outsourcing as a means of compensating for their losses with low cost labor. This setup allows their business to function even with minimum capital. With the number of companies shutting down because of the economic crash down looming over the world, morale is down and climbing uphill is quite difficult.

In the face of economic crisis, businesses are considering the transfer of more business functions offshore from data entry to knowledge process outsourcing as they compare the cost advantages, manpower resources, and innovative workstations of the outsourcing companies with unmanageable problems of doing jobs in-house.

Outsourcing will save you a great deal of money and it is the only option to lead you through the turbulent financial storm. India, China, Philippines etc are some of the hot destinations in the realm of outsourcing.
Article by Rarima.N.S
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Increase of back office jobs and lack of sufficient infrastructure

Companies started outsourcing jobs to other countries to clear off this mess. But adding to this confusion, many offshore countries, though they take up outsourced projects, are not qualified or able enough to be in the outsourcing industry.

2008 swept past us leaving behind the inerasable stamp of economic recession. The world is slowly trying to come up from the disturbances resulted from it. But this has, in some way, helped the outsourcing industry in abundance.

When the recession made the financial and business world topsy-turvy, companies announced temporary layoff which ended up in heaps of unfinished work. The most tiring and messy job among these is the never-ending back office jobs.

Companies started outsourcing jobs to other countries to clear off this clutter. But adding to this confusion, many offshore countries, though they take up outsourced projects, are not qualified or capable enough to be in the outsourcing industry.

Many countries doing the back office outsourcing services lack the sufficient infrastructure needed for the job. Companies need compatible technology, educated manpower, convenient work places, uninterrupted telephone connectivity and power facilities to excel in the outsourcing industry.

Unfortunately, many countries don’t meet these inevitable criteria and this affect the quality of the work they do. When work quality is on the decline, it adversely affects the reputation of both the giver and the receiver of these jobs.

At this juncture, outsourcing these works to countries like India and China becomes the only option for the Western countries to keep the businesses running. India and China are emerging as two of the hot destinations in the outsourcing industry. Both countries are blessed with literate manpower and innovative technology to back up the uninterruptible flow of outsourcing jobs.

Dedicated personnel and compatible technology and infrastructure make these countries ready to jump on to the outsourcing brigade and to produce quality outputs in back office outsourcing jobs thereby making the big businesses flow smoothly without any hurdles on the way.

Article by Rarima.N.S

SBL BPO Services

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