The Contrarian: A Modest Offshoring Proposal
December 3rd, 2010By George Tillmann
“The biggest weakness I think we have in America is we have forgotten the long term”, says Larry Fink the founder and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., the world’s largest asset management company. A similar sentiment can be heard from Warren Buffett, the quintessential investor. What does this have to do with offshoring? Offshoring is, I believe, a perfectly acceptable method for cost management – usually. I say usually, because in our current situation, offshoring’s short-term gains could have undesirable long-term consequences.
Q/A: A New Group Fights for Transparency of Offshored Market Research
November 30th, 2009The global services outsourcing industry may have a lot of things going for it, but in most cases the industry as a whole is not winning any awards for transparency. It is the view of Tom Anderson, who recently founded the Foundation for Transparency in Offshoring, that clients or buyers have a right to know where their business process (and more importantly IP) is being handled. 
His group is particularly focused on the practice of offshoring market research.
We asked Tom recently about the reason he founded FTO and why transparency is such a big deal.
Why did you launch FTO?
