http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Steve+Parker Business Steve Parker Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=27364&ca=Business Outsourcing -- the practice of using outside firms to handle work normally performed within a company -- is a familiar concept to many entrepreneurs. Small companies routinely outsource their payroll processing, accounting, distribution and many other important functions -- often because they have n... Business Steve Parker Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26978&ca=Business Offshore Outsourcing provides the ability to hold skilled overseas staff at a small part of the labor cost which is exhilarating to several entrepreneurs. The vistas in which Offshoring can be utilized especially in: accounting, advertising, animation, Human Resource Management and Development, heal... Business Steve Parker Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=27172&ca=Business Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some or all business functions in a country other than the one where the product or service will be sold or consumed. It can be contrasted with offshoring, in which the functions are performed in a foreign country, wh... Business Steve Parker Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26808&ca=Business The cheap labor costs of Southeast Asia are like a siren call to more and more US employers seeking to lower support costs and improve profits. The increasingly common trend toward outsourcing labor to countries such as India, Malaysia, and Pakistan means jobs are leaking to a part of the world wher... Business Steve Parker Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26127&ca=Business The primary argument for outsourcing is financial: a company can get the security expertise it needs much more cheaply by hiring someone else to provide it. Take monitoring, for example. The key to successful security monitoring is vigilance: attacks can happen at any time of the day, any day of the... Business Steve Parker Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26303&ca=Business It is difficult to choose an outsourcer because it's hard to tell the difference between good and bad computer security. By the same token, it's hard to tell the difference between good and bad medical care. Because most of us aren't healthcare experts, we can sometimes be led astray by bad doctors... Business Steve Parker Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=25808&ca=Business Outsourcing is the allocation of tasks or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a sub-contractor). The propelling factor behind this development has been the need to cut costs during the recession that began before the events of September 11, 2001 and deepened since then, whil... Business Steve Parker Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=24854&ca=Business A significantly large number of start-up company founding fathers, Chief Technical Officers, engineers and venture capitalists in California’s Silicon Valley today, can be found to trace their roots to India. Because, for a long period of time, India’s best-trained engineers were lured by bigger, fa... Business Steve Parker Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=24316&ca=Business As global competition intensifies and heats ups, an increasingly large number of firms have begun to compete and challenge big computer business giants i.e. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and IBM with low cost products, sophisticated technology, coupled with specialised skills. And, no where is it mo... Business Steve Parker Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=23925&ca=Business In the words of Daniel Drezner, a University of Chicago professor: “Believing that offshore outsourcing causes unemployment is the economic equivalent of believing that the sun revolves around the earth; intuitively compelling, but clearly wrong.” That statement on its own should be powerful enough...