Ilan Oshri
Multisourcing: Are You Getting it Right?
September 12 by Ilan Oshriby Professor Ilan Oshri, Loughborough Centre for Global Sourcing and Services and Professor Julia Kotlarsky, Aston Business SchoolResearch support was provided by Xiaowei Jin, PhD Candidate, Loughboro...
Mid-term Assessment of China's Outsourcing Strategy
July 14 by Ilan OshriChina: A Mid-Term Assessment of the "1000-100-10" StrategyThe days of multinationals shying away from setting up captives in China, or contracting out work to a Chinese vendor, are all but gone. In fa...
Is Your Sourcing Strategy Watertight? Not without the "Concurrent" Option
June 18 by Ilan Oshriby Prof. Ilan Oshri, Dr. Angelika Zimmerman and Dr. Eleni Lioliou – Loughborough Centre for Global Sourcing and ServicesDoes your firm manage both shared services centers and third party service provi...
China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
January 14 by Ilan OshriAs China welcomes in the New Year (Year of the Horse), columnist Professor Ilan Oshri reports on a Phoenix rising. For the second day, a Chinese man witnesses a Westerner standing at the corner of a m...
UK: Is Cost Still Keeping Delivery Centres Offshore? Or are Quality and Growth Considerations Working in Its Favour?
October 29 by SSONWhile a recent posting touted the UK (OK, it was really London) as one of the 12 most expensive locations in the world for setting up an office – which would have most of you looking farther E...
As Nearshoring Gains Popularity, will the UK be the "Next Big Thing" in Outsourcing?
October 29 by Ilan OshriThink outsourcing. Now think location. You are probably thinking India, China or perhaps Central Eastern Europe. Think again.I have recently studied the attractiveness of the UK (with M.N. Ravishankar...
View from China: Big (Entry) Data
October 10 by Ilan OshriI have just returned from yet another fascinating visit to China. This is the third time I’ve visited Lifewood in the last three years. Lifewood is now Pactera BPO. Most of you probably wonder – who i...
Captive Centers: Back to the Future
January 11 by Ilan OshriYou might think that captive centers have had their run. The news about several well-known multinationals divesting their captive centers in 2008 and 2009 has spread the rumour that the days of the ca...
What's Your Captive Center Strategy?
August 28 by Ilan OshriSay you have set up a captive center to provide back office support or IT support, or maybe even R&D support, from an offshore or nearshore location. Did you have a strategy for your captive cente...
Could this work anywhere else?
August 28 by Ilan OshriAs I write this column, I am making my way back from Shanghai to Europe. My mind is occupied with thoughts about my visit to VanceInfo, a Chinese outsourcing vendor which is considered to be the Chine...
Training your new employee to understand outsourcing: have you considered this?
April 02 by Ilan OshriImagine you’ve just recruited a new employee. He or she is new to the outsourcing industry and you need to introduce them to this world. What would you do?Most firms will do the following: Put togethe...
iThink SSON – a Professor’s View on Outsourcing & Offshoring
January 10 by SSONCaptive Centers: Back to the Future You might think that captive centers have had their run. The news about several well-known multinationals divesting their captive centers in 2008 and 2009 h...