Manmohan Singh Quotes

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base.

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it's union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet.

We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.

In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.

Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.

Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.