Nearshoring: the latest compilation of near shore and offshore outsourcing news and trends

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Is India's outsourcing honeymoon over? - Report: Labor shortage and wage inflation in outsourcing market has other countries in hot pursuit - NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Surprise! India's reign as the world's "Outsourcing King" may be slipping, even with its rock-bottom call center costs. A new report from market research firm Gartner, Inc. warns that a labor crunch and rising wages could erode as much as 45 percent of India's market share by 2007.

Indian IT firms still face labour pangs - Major information technology firms saw an increase in attrition rates during the quarter ended June 30, 2005, over the quarter ended March 31, 2005...

Research Report by KLG Details How Deploying Jobs to Nearshoring U.S. Locations Can Generate Savings That Rival Those Available from Offshoring to Developing Nations - KLG, a consultancy that specializes in corporate location strategy, has released a report that compares the economics of offshoring and nearshoring. The report demonstrates that, when all of the critical economic factors such as wage inflation, productivity, and management overhead are considered, in many situations nearshoring to domestic U.S. locations can provide savings that are comparable to -- or even better than -- those available from offshoring to developing nations. At the same time, such nearshoring strategies can also offer lower risk and complexity and greater control over work processes and quality. This begs the question, "What determines whether relocating offshore will meet with success or failure?" KLG has found that the answer lies in understanding precisely which functions are suitable for moving offshore...

Making Offshore Decisions - AT Kearney 2004 report on offshoring - a must read!

Nearshoring Picks Up Steam - Processor.com

Is Nearshoring A Real Alternative to Offshoring? on CIO.com

Offshoring closer to home on NetworkWorld.com

Nearshore IT Sourcing an Alternative to Offshore Sourcing - Compuware - GlobalsourcingNow.com - Download the full Compuware report in PDF format

Global Outsourcing Report 2005, released today by Ziff Davis Media's CIO Insight

Top Spots For Global Outsourcing CIOInsight.com

2005 IT Outsourcing study - Diamondcluster.com

Employment skills and the knowledge economy in Atlantic Canada - Canadian Institute of Reasearch on Regional development - University of Mocton

An extract of the Labour Markets in Atlantic Canada: Demographic and Macroeconomic Trends from the above report hosted on the Atlantic Canada opportunities web site.

Nearshoring - the definition of the word

What is nearshoring? A dictionary view from Wordspy.