At a time when high-tech companies are increasingly looking to the East for new growth markets, the sixth annual Global Sourcing Summit to be held in Xian, China on Nov 10-11, 2009 offers unprecedented access to the rapidly growing Chinese outsourcing community in Xi’an, the dynamic city distinguished as one of the four capitals of civilization of the ancient world.
Themed “New Opportunities for the Changing World,” the free program is organized by Shaanxi Province Government, supported by the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and co-sponsored by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). The event will connect continue reading…
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Plenary Conference C-level Roundtable Exhibition
October 14-15, 2009 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Zhongguancun, Beijing
The Global Delivery Conference (GDC 2009), is a parallel event of the Zhongguancun Forum (previously known as Zhongguancun IT Festival, ZITF), the largest IT event in Beijing. The Conference is considered an important government initiative to enhance international cooperation between foreign countries and China in the fields of software/IT outsourcing and high-technology industry development. Hosted by the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality and the People’s Government of Haidian (China’s ‘Silicon Valley’) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology and other relevant ministries, the Conference aims to: continue reading…
The first Cross-Straits Service Outsource Cooperation Forum was held in Wuxi,Jiangsu
Province on September 18,2009, which could attract a further 200 representatives.
The service sector is the pillar industry in Taiwan, accounting for over 70 percent
of the island’s total GDP.
With the trend of the manufacturing industry now transferring from Taiwan to the
Chinese mainland, the service industry in Taiwan is also actively seeking
opportunities to cooperate with their peers on the Chinese mainland. continue reading…
The Chinese government has pledged more aid from the country’s financial institutions to boost its outsourcing industry, officials said Wednesday.
Recommendations issued jointly by China’s central bank, commerce ministry and banking, securities, insurance and foreign exchange regulators, included efforts to expand service outsourcing companies’ access to financing via the country’s capital markets, such as by encouraging companies to carry out share and debt offerings, according to a statement posted on the Web site of the People’s Bank of China. continue reading…
Introduction
The Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) market continues to evolve with offshore suppliers maturing as infrastructure service providers, enabled by remote infrastructure management (RIM) technology. As offshore suppliers mature and reach critical size, they see the need to target larger buyers to keep growing their RIMO practice at a healthy pace. This practice led to convergence of the traditional and offshore models. However, this move meant they had to start playing by rules long established by the traditional players. Offshore suppliers in this emerging scenario may be facing a “crisis of genre” that may restrict their growth unless they can strike a balance between targeting large buyers and staying away from playing according to traditional rules. continue reading…
Introduction
Oil & gas companies represent a significant portion of the global economy today given their very large scale of global operations. According to the 2009 Fortune Global rankings, oil & gas companies occupy seven out of the top 10 positions, and account for over 70% of the total revenues in the top-10 list. However, despite their larger scale and broader global reach, oil & gas companies have lagged other verticals such as financial services and telecommunications in their outsourcing and offshoring initiatives. continue reading…
The 5th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia 2009 (CEE-SECR 2009) will be an international forum for in-depth and substantive discussion on the emerging technologies and methodologies being developed to overcome the challenges that exist in different areas of software engineering. This conference, as the previous one, is aimed to consolidate the local software professional community and to integrate it into the international software society. The conference will be held in Moscow on October 28-29, 2009.
The Software Engineering Conference in Russia is the key Eastern European Software Engineering event. The continue reading…
The 2009 European Outsourcing Summit, part of IAOP’s world-renowned Outsourcing World Summit Series, now in its 13th year, is the field’s leading global conference series for defining and shaping the future of outsourcing as a management practice.
Given the global economic crisis that is affecting every corner of the business world, the ideas to be shared at this year’s Summit are of particular importance and will enable your organization to: Structure, negotiate and renegotiate outsourcing, shared services and global business operations that work during both crisis and recovery; Create flexible, quickly-changeable business processes that can handle today’s levels of volatility; Strengthen its global continue reading…
The Ministry of Commerce signed a “Memorandum on Promoting the Development of China’s Outsourcing Service Industry” through a series of preferential policies in financing and direct cooperation with 22 multinational corporations including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Kodak, and Sony.
At present more than 70 Fortune 500 companies have preliminary agreements with the Ministry of Commerce, which wants these firms to speed up their offshoring to China, and is trying to get 200 well-known multinational companies to outsource to China by 2013. continue reading…
A Chinese trade official said Wednesday the country’s service outsourcing sector was doing brisk business despite the global economic downturn.
Lin Zheying, deputy director of the Department of Foreign Investment Administration of the Ministry of Commerce revealed at the International Service Outsourcing Development held in Guangzhou on September 2 that from January to June, Chinese service outsourcing industry smoothly realized the growth “against the trend”, with the newly-increased service outsourcing enterprises nationwide exceeding 1406, and the newly-employed persons of 297,000, among whom 239,000 are graduates; the execution amount of undertaking international service outsourcing contracts stood at USD2.56b, up 32.5% year-on-year. continue reading…
