Five outsourcing trends to watch | CNET News.com
Experts are tracking consolidation, globalization, and emergence of small-scale services, virtual worlds and even “green sourcing.”
By Natasha Lomas
Special to CNET News.com
Published: July 6, 2007, 6:22 AM PDT
Five outsourcing trends to watch
Which way is the wind blowing in the outsourcing market? What’s looming on the horizon in the next five years?
Silicon.com has identified five areas to watch.
Consolidation
Globalization
Person-to-person offshoring
Green sourcing
Rising energy prices have put ecology issues firmly on CIOs’ radar. But could pressure to demonstrate green credentials influence businesses’ outsourcing decisions as well?
Silicon.com’s CIO Jury–a pool of chief information officers and other corporate IT professionals who are polled on various technology issues–recently revealed that environmental factors play a key role in the selection of technology suppliers and partners.
Virtual worlds