A more bullish view came Thursday from NeoIT, a consulting firm that advises clients about offshore projects. NeoIT “foresees a big year for offshore outsourcing growth in 2005″ and predicts that more than “80 percent of the Global 2,000 will have an offshore presence by the end of the year.”
Unfortunately, the laws of physics prevent us from speaking directly to our future selves. But a web site has made it possible for anyone to send messages to the person they will be tomorrow. All you need is an email address that will hopefully still be active on the date of delivery.
Futureme.org allows visitors to send messages that will be delivered electronically to themselves at a designated future date. Visitors to the site can scroll through the public messages at random to read the dispatches from the past that await delivery–some hopeful, some filled with profanity, some bearing advice, others poignant. Here are two:
Because you were working on your thesis and went through that Roman Stoicism phase and tend to forget who said what and where all the ideas come from:
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
p.s. Finish the book and jog more
Outsourcing Illness Diagnoses
The Seattle Times reports radiologists in Australia, India, Israel and Lebanon are reading scans on U.S. patients spurred by a shortage of U.S. radiologists and an exploding demand for more sophisticated scans to diagnose scores of ailments.
Despite some doctors’ fears, advocates say outsourcing radiology is nothing like the nightmarish vision of seedy sweatshops stealing U.S. jobs and replacing them with unqualified cheap labor. Most of the doctors are U.S.-trained and licensed, although there is at least one experiment using radiologists without U.S. training.
Dr. David Turner, chairman of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, believes outsourcing fears are unfounded. With concern about medical errors and malpractice lawsuits, no U.S. hospital would risk hiring poorly trained doctors, he said. “The bottom line is this is not outsourcing in the sense that automobile jobs are going to Mexico and call center jobs are going to India,” Turner said. “It’s something on a different level.”
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Outsourcing Debt Collection
Sify.com reports debt collection is becoming another area of outsourcing moving to India. According to a news report, units of General Electric, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings and American Express are using their India-based staff to pursue credit card debt and mortgage payment by calling defaulters.
”Our cost of collection is 40 percent less than operators in the U S,” Jerry Rao, chief executive of MphasiS, which has hundreds of debt-collection agents in Bangalore and Pune, told The Wall Street Journal. ”We can collect debts (American) firms didn’t expect before.” Outsourcing companies in such nations as the Philippines and Mexico (the latter mainly for U S -based Spanish speakers) are also entering debt-collection business, but India seems to have the largest and fastest-growing operations outside the United States.
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