Many small businesses view IT and IT services as a break-fix scenario, meaning they call for help only when the computer issue has made it impossible to continue with their business function. The usual approach is to then pay an “IT Guy” or IT Company for the time they invest to fix these issues. This [...]

Dr. Tarek El-Sadany, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Communications & Information Technology of Egypt for Technology Policies, wants to expand Egypt’s IT industry. He says that Egypt is a great choice for both European countries and the United States: Egypt is GMT +2, so it’s convenient for Europe, and Egypt is closer than India [...]

The Reuters news service is reporting that China’s smallish outsourcing industry may begin making strides to catch up with India’s booming outsourcing business. “If you really want to jump start the growth, if you want to grow double or triple … don’t miss a huge opportunity here,” Alex Peng, a partner in the McKinsey consulting [...]

While many experts believe IT outsourcing will pick up in 2009 in light of a down economy, some others say “not so fast.”  The Daily IT News reports that the recession and the accompanying slowdown in decision-making by executives wary about where their decreased budget dollars are going, have combined to make life a little [...]

Outsourcing is a good way to minimize costs and simplify operations for a business that needs to focus on its core competencies. Just like many companies hire an employee leasing company to perform their human resources functions, outsourcing information technology (often called “managed IT services) to a third party can be an efficient way to [...]