Nearshore Journal

Colombia, Nicaragua DR Cities Top Nearshore Operating and Demographic Cost Ranking Released – Zagada Institute
MIAMI, FL and CORAL GABLES, FL–(Marketwire – August 19, 2010) – A new Nearshore operating and demographic cost ranking on the 13 key Central American, Colombian and Caribbean cities released by the Zagada Institute (ZI) today reveals that Cali, Santo Domingo [...]

Logica’s Hiren Doshi has his say on the future of outsourcing five years ahead and beyond in his Seeking Alpha post – give it a look. Strong viewing to Arjun Sethi and Olivier Aries – on AT Kearney’s Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek article this week – also about outsourcing’s future. Here it is again just in [...]

Today Bart van Ark, Chief economist of the Conference Board, confirmed that the U.S. economic rebound is over – with annualized GDP growth projected at 1.6% in the second quarter 2010.
Certainly, growth in the outsourcing sector will respond in sympathy to this. On the other hand cost driven considerations may result in an uptick in [...]

[ May 21, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]

HANS ROSLING AND BETH NOVECK
“The Changing World — A New Mindset for a Multipolar World”

Friday, May 21, 2010
10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Dr. Rosling and Ms. Noveck are two influential thinkers on the power of open data, information visualization, and innovations in governance and development. They will present their ideas of [...]

By Philip Peters
Capital markets seem to be engaged a period of “pausal integrity.”  They have temporarily retraced over uncertainties in Greece and Spain and maybe Portugal on the European front and persisting unemployment challenges in the U.S. However, I was struck by the many press announcements and media releases over the last week or so, [...]

By Philip Peters
It took the tragic August 2009 death of Mark Saylor, an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer; his wife, daughter and brother-in-law to spotlight a seething problem ripping away at Toyota’s care economics.
Attention has fallen on Elkhart, Indiana based, New York Stock Exchange listed CTS Corp (CTS:NYSE) – Toyota’s key accelerator pedal supplier since [...]

A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the outsourcing industry from Argentina to Guatemala underscores a boom in nearshoring by U.S. multinational companies, a business that is expected to continue to grow annually at double digits to over $20 billion by 2013.
Philip Peters, Miami  - This is an article I wrote for Kroll Teledencias
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