2007-06-20
Debrecen is overbooked
City of Debrecen, in Hungary, becomes the most popular city of outsourcing destinations in Hungary. SEI has been operating there a customer support centre of some hundred IT professionals since 2004. T-Systems is opening a branch (100 new jobs in 2007), and BT will open now a regional centre with 200 IT jobs.
Nevertheless, on the resource side, there are 1700 IT students at the local university, but only some dozens were the last year output from the university to job market, according to the stats of the Ministry of Education.
2007-05-29
McKinsey: The overlooked potential for outsourcing in Eastern Europe
McKinsey published a short analysis on the future potential of the CEE region in the outsourcing business in December 2006. Major findings are:
- Companies in Western Europe become more comfortable with offshoring
- Service providers in Eastern Europe offer geographic proximity combined with cultural and language affinities
- The region is likely to remain competitive, given its low level of wage inflation, along with thousands of qualified graduates entering the marketplace each year.
- Eastern European service providers develop their capabilities
2007-05-28
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