According to AustralianIT:

Patients may not like calling an operator in Delhi to book an appointment with their GP, or having their medical notes stored on overseas databases. But as pressure on NHS budgets intensifies, John Neilson suggests the alternative is cuts to services.

Call centres and offices in Delhi and Pune already handle invoices and other administration for a significant number of NHS trusts for a fraction of what British-based labour would cost.

Satyam Computer Services, the scandal-ridden solution provider based in India, this week unveiled a marketing overhaul intended to function as the rebirth of the company.

In April, Tech Mahindra agreed to purchase 31 percent of Satyam’s shares, resulting in an infusion of $351 million (U.S.) into the beleaguered Indian outsourcing firm. At the beginning of the year, the former chairman of Satyam confessed to $1 billion in fraud. B. Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, Chief Financial Officer Srinivas Vadlamani, and two Price Waterhouse auditors have been charged with forgery and falsification of Satyam accounts and for causing disappearance of evidence.

This week, the firm unveiled its new brand identity, “Mahindra Satyam.” The logo takes a cue from Mahindra’s current design.

So you can see how a deep belief in reincarnation can actually help Indian outsourcing companies!

The rate is a very reasonable $10 per hour and most 3D models were taking between 10 and 16 hours. This makes game outsourcing to China an important competitive consideration, especially if you’re in a competitive field (and who isnt?).

My new project (Riftforge) is a tactical MMO, so it doesn’t require 3D, so I had to pass. Fortunately, I found some amazing 2D artsist in Indonesia, Brazil, and Austria. Stay tuned for an update.

The ruling Communist party (I mean Workers party!) is the undisputed leader. Less than 20% of the candidates are NOT members of the Communist Party, so the result cannot be that surprising.

In the mean time, courts have put on trial and jailed a number of political activists and journalists. Two of them were occused of attempts to sabotage the elections.

It’s not cleat what these elections will mean for the thousands of businesses who have invested in Vietnam on the promise of a liberlized market. Intel has already committed to build a billion-dollar chip factory.

One thing is certain – whatever the Communists decide to do, they better not scare these investors. China is a good example of a roaring economy with waving red flags.

Game outsourcing has been here ever since Ultima Online came out more than a decade ago. Diablo 2 item trading was quite a big business but recently eBay banned the auctions of virtual goods.

BBC has an article on the implications of game outsourcing, here’s a few quotes:

Qin Shen, who works for a company called Ucdao.com, says: “Many white collar workers want to improve their character on their own, but they do not have much time. They need to go to work in the day and they don’t have the energy to improve at night, so they need someone else to play for them.”

But to say this is hugely controversial among the game’s community is putting it mildly. I posted a message on one website asking for people who buy gold to get in touch – and got a number of quite hostile responses.

Eventually, I did find someone who had bought gold.

“I have a life outside of the game that’s certainly much more important, so the few precious hours I do get to play on my game I don’t want to spend doing the same thing over and over again to get in-game money, when I could just buy that and do the stuff in-game that I actually enjoy,” he said.

A new wave of game outsourcing has sprung - mainly on the back of MMOs and has risen to prominence with Blizzard’s blockbuster MMO – World of Warcraft.

The game has claimed seven million lives so far and a whole cottage industry has emerged that delivers simple services and virtual items to the players.

The bulk of the people who procure the items are based in China. In fact, this is the way many people in China are able to pay for the game – by acquiring items and gold and then selling them for real money.

The phenomenon has become so wide spread that Chinese “farmers” are subject of abuse on many servers. The main reason for the special attitude towards “farmers” comes from the fact that they would indiscriminantly collect any rare resources they can lay their hands on – leaving other players empty handed waiting for a re-spawn.

While this isn’t traditional outsourcing, it follows the same model. Looking at it, there might be a niche for an European player in this hot virtual items market.

I haven’t heard of Bulgarian farmers though… maybe it’s just a matter of time before some of us return to our agrarian roots!

The solution? Outsource the government to India!

Here’s how the idea was born:

It’s common knowledge that all major government decisions in the United States are made via a process that Thomas Jefferson described in the constitution as “lobbyists bribing weasels.” Voters attempt to solve this problem by electing the weasels who do the best job lying about their intentions to change the system. So far, this hasn’t worked.

That’s why we need to outsource the important decisions to India. I’m sure a consulting firm in India could help the United States come up with a coherent energy policy, a plan for universal health care, a cure for global warming, and an anti-terrorism plan.

In addition to his musings, Scott has a special Q&A session that is a must-read.

Distribution of investments (number of)

• Romania – 40%
• Bulgaria – 25%
• Turkey – 20%
• Serbia – 9%
• Greece – 4%

The survey also asked investors which factors need to be improved. Here’s the investor wishlist:

• Infrastructure – logistics & telco
• Political stability
• Following EU standards
• Simplifying administration
• Quality of life

Admittedly, outsourcing attracts only a small part of the direct investments but my guess is the investor wishlist is almost 100% identical regardless of sector.
 

The reasons are endless, some people prefer to outsource their work in order to spend more free time, others are not qualified to do the work and therefore outsource the work to professionals. Major companies on the other hand outsource some of their work to specialists in order to focus on their goals and get more work done by employees.

As an example imagine the benefits you will receive by outsourcing your graphic design work to professional companies. For one thing you don’t have to worry and stress yourself on how you are going to get the work done when you yourself are not a graphics designer. This practice also saves you plenty of time, the number one reason is because qualified professionals will be doing your work and they can create five different varieties of a logo for you to choose the one you like. If you tried to this you would spend weeks just educating yourself on how to use the program.

Another great benefit is the value for money you get. As in the previous example you can have a professional company create you varieties of a logo design you want and then you choose the one that most appeals to you. Any changes can be done in minutes. This can cost you anywhere from $50 to $200, which is relatively cheap considering the amount of time you save and the quality of the work that you get.

If you were to embark on this task by yourself you would in the least need to spend $400 for a good piece of software that can handle all your graphics work such as Illustrator or Coral Draw. The training would cost you another $600 depending on how fast and in depth the course is and it will take some time before you can produce pieces of graphics work that look professional.

Another of the benefits, and this is sometimes the number one reason why people choose to outsource their work is because, you give out the task and responsibility to professionals to handle it. Those who take on the work are usually specialized, qualified and trained just for this specific task. A graphics design company hires professionally qualified graphic designers to do the work. Companies will outsource all their graphics work to such a company because they already have the expertise necessary to get the job done quickly even if it costs a couple of thousand dollars, it remains much cheaper than setting up a completely new department just for graphics. Hiring a graphics designer alone will cost the company loads in the long run even when work is scarce.

Outsourcing work such as graphics or whatever it maybe does have it’s huge benefits, when time is a constraint, and the need of professional quality work is a must, then handing the job and the responsibility over to a professional is the better choice.

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Julia Raven specialises in Writing Articles about http://www.LogoDesignTeam.com, Graphic Design and Outsourcing. She also maintains a http://www.BestLogoCreators.com where you can get the complete List of Logo Designers in 1 place.

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