Couple of recent deals announced, one I mentioned earlier by Nokia Siemens and another by Rockwell Collins to open an outsourced offshore design center illustrate the growth in R&D outsourcing.
The current (June 2007) issues of R&D Magazine has a cover story (R&D Outsourcing Becomes More Strategic) that describes the result of a May 2007 survey [...]
The Simpsons episode above where Homer gets a job in India after losing his job to outsourcing was aired quite sometime back and you might have seen it many times by now. Interestingly an article by Nandini Lakshman on BusinessWeek today talks about the booming job market in India for foreigners.
The article talks about how [...]
WSJ has a very good report by Phanish Puranam and Kannan Srikanth of London School of Business that describes Seven Myths About Outsourcing (WSJ.com subscription required) and how to address those. The video interview above talks in brief about some.
The essence of the report is that outsourcing and offshoring are highly collaborative engagements where both [...]