InformationWeek
September 20, 2008
Near Shore or Offshore, Soft Costs Matter
By: Steve Martin and Dan McMahon
Steve Martin and Dan McMahon offer CIOs a set of rules on outsourcing near shore versus offshore. “In the past, outsourcing meant sending work offshore–very far offshore. But now, as India’s labor costs rise, other countries are making inroads into the outsourcing business. And organizations are weighing the potential for “near-shoring”–sourcing work closer to home, in Canada, Mexico, and other Western hemisphere locations–for reasons besides costs.”