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A NEW PARADIGM in OUT-SOURCING?
A NEW PARADIGM in OUT-SOURCING?
OUTSOURCING?
MIGRATERS Executive Search
Findings 20052006
Provisional findings 2007
A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
Over the past 30 to 40 years outsourcing and
offshoring has been all about producing in
the 3rd world at a low cost.
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A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
Broadly viewed manufacturers have produced
for the 1st world at plants in the 3rd world.
Employees hired by 1st world manufacturers
have been poorly skilled.
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A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
The marketfocus in outsourcing has
been the West.
The prevalent cultural mindset has been the
Western mindset.
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A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
Products have been costumised and consumed
mainly by Westerners
They have been Westernised.
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A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
Then something is changing in the 21st century.
Indian companies are outsourcing and entering
markets.
They are setting the agenda of outsourcing.
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A NEW PARADIGM IN
OUTSOURCING
Q1: WHAT HAVE WE BEEN
DOING...
“…while others have been planning the
future?”
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EUROPE’S HUMAN RESOURCES
ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY
Is hiring unskilled workers from Eastern Europe and
Asia good business?
While Asian and US companies are
draining the market of skilled Europeans?
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TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, INFOSYS,
MITTAL, CNOOC, TATA,
WIPRO and CONVERGYS...
...are all hiring topnotch professionals in Eastern
Europe.
And in Asia for that matter.
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EVERYONE IS LOOKING ABROAD
NOT JUST THE EUROPEANS...
“... for cost arbitrage and to move operations to where
they’re most effective.”
JeanHervé Jenn
President of Indianowned Convergys
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2007 provisional findings
show that the West has begun
taking the challenge seriously.
Western companies have begun competing in the Asian
market and designing products for Asian costumers.
Western companies are Asianising their products.
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PUTTING CULTURE FIRST
DANONE is a 129 billion Euro size company and it is
taking the new challenge seriously allocating 21
billion Euro to the task.
Since food is a matter of cultural preferences the
division executive manager has to be of local or
regional origin.
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Sales in AP amounts to 2,2
billion Euro,
The region has 41,027
Danone employees
this is what caused DANONE to alter it organisation:
Hiring local topnotch executives and
Encouraging local management teams to take on responsibility
really paid off.
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FACING THE MUSIC
The Executive Committee, the General Management
and the local division management has from 2004 on
identified culture to be an important marker for
growth.
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For an insight into the
implications to your company:
Call:
MIGRATERS
Denmark
004560845921
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