Why should I consider outsourcing? This is the first question comes to our mind when We think of outsorcing. I'll be, without making a foundation, quickly list out the benefits:

o Survive and be stable in tough compitition

o Cut those hefty Expanses:

o Increasing payouts

o Employee Benefits

o High Infrastructure cost

o Recruitment costs

o Other overheads

o Talented and experienced staff

o Better production, lesser disappointments

o Meet deadlines, and

o Focus more on growth than production problems

Now if we go specific about outsourcing to India:

o Cheaper, experienced and English speaking talent

o Currency difference

o Time Gap Advantage (India works while west sleeps)

o Stong hold in IT service sector outsourcing. 85% of US and UK market.!

o Growing outsourcing reputation. Let's have a look what NASSCOM has to say:

"Despite the challenges such as slow growth of IT spending globally, a jobless recovery in major markets and appreciation of the Indian rupee [against the U.S. dollar], the Indian software and services industry has been able to maintain its growth momentum and consolidate its partnership with overseas customers, adding to their competitiveness," _ Jerry Rao, chairman of NASSCOM.

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Furthermore Nasscom says: Recent studies on the benefits of IT outsourcing by business intelligence organizations such as McKinsey & Co. and other leading research companies have indicated the following:

o The ITES/BPO market is likely to touch US$142 billion in 2009, against the current cost of US$532 billion for these services. The difference of US$ 390 billion represents the net saving the US economy can expect from offshoring

o Such savings have a huge economic impact on dollar savings, leading to value creation for shareholders and the common man

o US banks, financial services and insurance companies have saved US$6-8 billion in the past four years owing to IT outsourcing to India

o Helped by these savings, companies have prevented layoffs and instead added 125,000 more jobs

o Offshoring to India has resulted in quality and productivity gains of the order of 15-20 percent

o US BFSI sector has managed to register customer satisfaction of almost 85% due to Offshoring to India vis-a-vis their European competitors

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What can we outsource to India?

* Medical/Insurance Process

* Business Process

* CADD and Solid Modelling

* Help Desk / Customer Support

* Call Center

* Architecture

* Game and Graphic development

* Chartered Accountants and other Accounts oursourcing

* Software development

* Graphic and web design

* Medical Transcription,

* and much more

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I guess we have got a long list of benefits one can get from outsourcing. We are also aware of India's contribution to the outsourcing world.

About the author: Author is the CEO of Architectural Rendering firm http://www.virses.com which provides outsource architectural renderings to real estate, visualization, media and architectural firms. He can be contacted at harjeet@virses.com . This article can be distributed freely as long as this is not modified