Outsourcing to India

What is Outsourcing? How about Off Shoring? What’s the difference? Where does India fit into the Global picture? What do I need to know about the culture there? The aim of this book is to tackle the above questions and more in a simple, easy to read manner and provide a reference of sorts for the uninitiated among us with a heavy leaning towards the country of India and why so many companies are sending more and more of their operations there. This is not a book for those who have been outsourcing for 20 years, it is however a book for those business professionals who would like to begin the journey of understanding a business practice that will one day seem as commonplace as using FedEx to overnight documents. In the not too distant past many companies kept functions like electricity generation and phone service "in house". Today that would seem fool hardy. We believe the same transformation will happen to IT and other business functions, only this time on a global scale. And we believe the country of India will play a big part in this transformation. As almost no large company will be left out of this paradigm shift, it will bec! ome increasing relevant for executives to know about the countries and cultures that will be supporting their organizations. This book starts you on that journey.