IT Offshore Outsourcing: Early Predictions for 2009.
TEAM International reviews and shares recent research findings and expert predictions for key attributes of the 2009 IT offshore outsourcing environment.
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The Black Book of Outsourcing's annual STATE OF THE OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY REPORT (Download a full PDF free from their website www.TheBlackBookOfOutsourcing.com identified these trends six months ago...before the financial crisis.Since more than 25000 people globally participate in their surveys, I recommend you consult their trends and vendor performance rankings as we trust it more than the consultants firms for independent advice and direction.
Very optimistic but how realistic?
Survey results were published on November 20.When was the survey conducted? Is it based on actual questions like "By how much percent has your budget for 2009 increased?" Or was it "By how much are you planning to increase the 2009 IT Budget?"
Also if it was conducted in October 2008 then budgets for 2009 were probably just being discussed and were getting finalized only in November middle. And we know how the world has changed.
We should be careful about such surveys because an Industry's own survey can have only a rosy picture painted. We have already been witness to the Realtor who kept on insisting that the Real Estate market could go only one way "UP". We now know what has happened.
IMHO, we should take the conclusions of this survey with a sackful of salt - a pinch would be grossly insufficient.
Pat