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dedicated to increasing the efficiency of the offshore outsourcing industry by facilitating knowledge sharing and
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on the needs of small and medium-sized emerging enterprises.
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Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices Newsletter #4
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Small Businesses Struggle to Offshore
March 6, 2006
In the scramble to save money overseas, small companies are at a serious disadvantage, writes CIO Insight magazine, a flagship publication by Ziff Davis. The feature article highlights key issues in outsourcing for SMBs, and provides the expert opinion of Eugene Goland, founder of OOBP.org: "This market is underserved. There are structural difficulties that prevent smaller companies from taking advantage of offshoring, and yet these are the companies that have the most to gain."
The article offers sound advice for SMB offshoring, including that by Goland. "You must find a vendor that is small enough that the project you give him is of significant importance," Goland says. "If that's not the case, you will never get the right people to work on it. And if you cannot staff the project with the best people, it will fail. At the same time, the vendor should be strong enough to weather changes."
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I. Vendor Selection Survey
 We invite you to participate in a comprehensive survey dedicated to the issues of software outsourcing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study is the first of its kind, and aims to help SMEs in selecting the right vendor. Results of the survey will be incorporated into the "Global Sourcing Methodology for Small and Medium Enterprises", currently developed by OOBP.org and The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (www.outsourcingprofessional.org).
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II. 2006 Outsourcing World Summit ®
 OOBP Founder Eugene Goland attended The 2006 Outsourcing World Summit®, one of the field's most influential and highly respected conferences, in Orlando, Florida, February 20-22, 2006.
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III. OOBP Calls for Buyer-side Case Studies
IV. New Book by OOBP Expert
 OOBP expert’s Mohan Babu’s book "Offshoring IT Services: A framework for managing outsourced projects" has recently been published by McGrawHill, India.
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V. Outsourcing and IT Services Summit 2006
 Disciplined Multisourcing: The Next Frontier - 24-25 April 2006 The Gartner Outsourcing & IT Services Summit 2006 analyzes and explores the next frontier: disciplined multi-sourcing. It’s all about maximizing value, mitigating risk, and optimizing resources across a portfolio of service suppliers and in-house departments, resources for the optimal delivery of IT services and business processes, via a traditional or offshore approach.
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