Tag Archives: Outsourcing

Maximizing Captial Efficiency: Is global R&D one of the solutions?

I attended the SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC yesterday and there was a lot of talk about capital efficiency from the VC panel. Capital efficiency is nothing new, but under the current economic scenario all the VCs seem to be chanting the same mantra all of a sudden. There was a recent popular blog [...]

Global Software Engineering: Benefits of Outsourcing

One of the things that I try to tell folks who are interested in doing software product engineering globally is to consider the well established benefits outsourcing can bring to the table in conjunction with own teams local & global. In this context I came across this article titled “Leveling the Developer Field” by Michael [...]

Lost your job to outsourcing? Get a better one in India!

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 [...]