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Making M&A Count For Achieving Business Goals

By on October 22, 2009 in Recession, Revenue, Trends

By Nigel Walker, Partner & Managing Director, Energy, Utilities, and Life Sciences Services, TPI

Nigel Walker
The pharmaceutical industry is seeing a lot of mergers and acquisitions as companies seek ways to reduce costs even while they can see a drop in their future revenues looming due to drugs coming off patent.  But mergers will not deliver savings or revenue increases if executives do not manage the integration effectively and decisively. 

Big mergers have many moving pieces. The complexity is compounded by the fact that companies in the pharmaceutical space have often been traditionally been very decentralized. When you combine decentralized organizations, you run the risk of losing the advantages of a merger. For example, it’s not unusual to see HR working towards one goal, while IT works towards another.  Departments, business units and integration efforts cannot be isolated.…

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Globalization of Outsourced Services Industry

By on April 24, 2009 in Globalization, Outsourcing, Recession, Service Providers

Dinish GoelThe outsourced services industry is morphing into a truly globalized industry – and sooner than later. This acceleration is fueled by the current recessionary conditions in the traditional markets of demand for outsourced services. I believe this is a desirable by-product of the current downturn.

Large service providers – both of multinational and Indian heritage – are challenged to achieve growth and profitability in their current large markets.…

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Peeling the IT Layers

By on August 8, 2008 in Current Affairs, IT Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Recession

 

Dinish GoelThe era of abnormal growth for India-based IT service providers is nearly over. They’ve reported lower growth rates on both top-line and bottom-line performance in their latest quarterly results.

So what does this mean? Is the IT sector heading for a downturn in the wake of a tough U.S. and global economic environment?…

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Desperate or Ambitious Sourcing?

By on July 3, 2008 in Current Affairs, Recession, Sourcing

Today’s blog on current affairs and sourcing comes from Peter Allen, Partner and Managing Director, TPI.

Generally, I’ve found that clients of outsourcing are either desperate or ambitious. In today’s recessionary economic markets, there’s decidedly a desperate tone among the buyer executive team driving the introduction of change. Can you blame ‘em?…

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Buckle Up for 2008

By on April 16, 2008 in Outsourcing, Recession, TPI Index Analysis

Today’s blog on the state of the outsourcing industry comes from Peter Allen, Partner and Managing Director, TPI.

With the risk of sounding too dramatic, I think that 2008 is
going to be a defining year for the outsourcing industry.

Whether the U.S. economy has entered a recession or not is still up for debate.…

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The 3C Sourcing Framework

By on April 14, 2008 in Outsourcing, Recession

Today’s blog on the future of outsourcing comes from Peter Allen, Partner and Managing Director, TPI.

One risk of offering projections about the future is that astute observers will keep score. Alas, so be it.

The demise of the labor arbitrage era as it relates to sourcing is rapidly approaching. The labor turnip has been squeezed and a new era dawns.…

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It’s a Sourced World After All: Scenarios for a Recession

By on February 13, 2008 in Offshoring, Outsourcing, Recession

Sid
Pai’s recent blog on a likely U.S. slump led me to conclude: Globalization means that contagion spreads quickly
and broadly — a large country’s pain causes the world to ache — and the
resulting economic fallout induces near-sightedness in senior executives. Recession
leads to shifts in outsourcing trends, in turn requiring realignment of IT and
business process strategies to take into account newly created risks and
opportunities.…

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SHORT-TERM SLOWDOWN?

By on February 11, 2008 in Guest Bloggers, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Recession

Today’s blog on the effect that a U.S. recession could have on the outsourcing industry is by Siddharth
A Pai, Partner & Managing Director, TPI India.Sid_pai

Despite
the subprime crisis, most commentators, self included, doubted predictions of a U.S. recession a few months ago.  This confidence has steadily eroded.
Concern about the global economy is mounting – the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) has slashed its forecast for U.S.

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