Lauding the benefits of offshore outsourcing to a developing nation’s employment dilemma…

There are so many profound reasons why I laud offshore outsourcing so much. Increasing employment opportunities is already obvious, and as well, its contribution to a developing nations’ economic growth. For this reason, I guess there’s no use to dwell on those ideas. What I would like to expound is how outsourcing gives enviable impacts to our lives, factors which doesn’t solely rest on employment (but maybe connected with employment) or has nothing to do with a nation’s or a business’ revenue. I would like to extend how offshore outsourcing provides viable option for workers who supposedly abroad, yet, remains on the borders within the country and still avails a decent living.

There are so many graduates these days who choose their degree courses for reasons that these will serve as their tickets to have employment overseas and acquire a satisfying compensation. But as the demand for offshore outsourcing is increasingly growing, they tend to remain because better employment opportunities are sprouting radically in their country. I’m not saying that the compensation is the same as working abroad, but, the compensation is quite as satisfactory considering that one won’t have to leave the country and suffer homesickness or all other psycho-emotional distress. They don’t have to cross borders of other nations, yet, they can still uplift their living condition in an outright manner.

A further benefit is that the dignity of the country and workforce is also uplifted. Before, developing nations (Philippines for instance) has been known globally because it produces most of the domestic helpers or seafarers for the global community. However, with the varied opportunities outsourcing provides, many skilled individuals can be recognized in various fields that the country has not been popularly known. From IT solutions, medical assistance, to legal services, the outsourcing industry can offer employment for professionals with different degrees and expertise. To be recognized in the international community with those expertises is such a very commendable and celebrated feeling. It uplifts the dignity of the country and as well it increases the value of the workforce. Aren’t all these things wonderful? And take note, these are just extensions. Direct positive impacts for the foreign companies’ expenses and the outsourced nation’s economy itself struck more feeling of awe and bewilderment. And we all owe these to the advances in information technology and increasing globalization.

There are still so many reasons to point out. But I just let you figure out the other factors yourself. Just keep me posted if you can think of a fresh perspective of looking at the offshore outsourcing industry and might as well, exchange ideas with me. Happy browsing 🙂

Content amidst Changes

There is nothing else constant in this world but change. Same is true to the world of search engine optimization. This field in IT industry is dynamic as the tidal waves that crash to the shore every moment. The competition for visibility in search engine results is hot as flowing lava due to those dynamic changes. Why am I saying this? It is because I just feel the need to point out that search engine algorithms change from time to time.

Algorithms are complex mathematical formulas that search engines use in calculating what words a particular web page should be rank for and where it should appear in the rankings. If unscrupulous webmasters know the algorithms a particular search engine currently uses, then, it will be easier for their sites to rank high in the results when in the first place they are not worthy of that privilege. Their site might be offering tour packages but it might rank high on results searched by a person looking for the latest sporting item. Hence, algorithms hold a fundamental role in the world of search engine optimization. It determines which keywords are the most timely and productive to use.

From time to time, whenever results turn irrelevant to a search, algorithms are changed in order to provide what net surfers really wants to find. No one dares to have far-off search engine results, right? For this reason, major search engines like Google continually reconfigure their algorithms to better serve the need of every net shoppers and surfers in this world. It is only a matter of being content-wise and relevant on the part of the competing websites to keep pace with these changes. Whatever the next algorithms are is beyond the webmasters and link builders to know. They just have to be creative and imaginative in anticipating those. And, they should never forget the content of their sites because that’s the bottom line of everything amidst the changes happening around.

“An Added Ingredient”

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a total solution to a company’s need to be competitive in the virtual world. Its efforts do not end after developing a company’s web site or after increasing the traffic of that site, it also provides web support agents to further the conversion of net surfers from site visitors into actual buyers. How is this so?

Web support agents offer assistance to visitors by guiding them through live chats or e-mails. They are responsible for qualifying web visitors and pushing marketing content to them. They develop good business relationships with customers thus maintaining customer loyalty. They can also update the content of the site whenever necessary. Hence, they act as the company’s on-line employees. In turn, web support agents are viewed as the personal human touch in web sites!

There are still so many reasons to point out as to why companies should avail the service of web support agents. The most important of these reasons is the fact that they can effectively convert site visitors into potential buyers in a way that only the accommodating and convincing powers of humans can do. Increased traffic and well-designed graphics may not be enough to take a company’s sale to its optimum . Therefore, the service of web support agents is an added ingredient in attaining such success.

Philippines’ Edge as an Outsourcing Destination

What makes the Philippines a viable option for offshore outsourcing? Perhaps, this can be best answered by the increasing numbers of foreign companies who chooses to contract with Philippine IT solution providers to develop their sites, create graphic designs, review bulks of legal documents, and any other thinkable service which can be left handled to the Filipino work force. But to make things a bit more firm and certain, outsourcing in the Philippines booms in a steadfast manner because of crucial factors that stems from the uniqueness and brilliance of Filipinos. Here are some defining factors which able the country to continually gain ground, and perhaps serve as tickets for it to outbid its competitors in outsourcing.

Language Advantage. U.S has been one of the leading countries whose companies prefer to outsource their operations. Luckily for Filipinos, Philippines had more shared culture with the U.S. among Asian countries. This is not just in terms of legal system or the admiration of western mentality, but primarily because of a more fundamental and basic connection, that is, when it comes to language. When compared with other outsourcing destinations in Asia, Philippines has a pool of workers who are more proficient in the command of the English language. Not just that, when interpreting legal documents from the U.S., Filipinos are better skilled in doing this because the educational and the legal system are heavily anchored in the said language. Hence, there is this instant understanding of the solution provider towards the culture of the foreign client. So, it can make the transaction progresses in a fluent manner, and the outputs be accomplished in a way that is sensitive to the character of the one who is being served. The Philippines is the third largest English-speaking country in the world, so it’s not surprising to use this as an advantage over other competing countries in the dynamic world of outsourcing.

Trained and Skilled labor force. Government has been continually supporting the outsourcing sector by keeping a steady supply of talented workers through education and training. Service businesses which includes outsourcing is easier to set up and support than capital-intensive manufacturing businesses, and it can even generate more white collar jobs than the latter. Hence, fresh graduate students with degree holders can be best utilized under the IT and outsourcing industry. The cheaper labor wage compared to the increasing salaries of those who came from other outsourcing countries like India, even further the advantage of contracting with Filipino providers.

These factors are just few of the many reasons why outsourcing continually flourishes in the Philippines. Though there still a lot to mention, still, those are enough to provide hints as to why it will always be an advantage to work with Filipino service providers. Filipinos had been globally known in quite innumerable fields like sports, arts, entrepreneurship, engineering, designing, among others. And, it seems like adding outsourcing in the list would be a greater pride not just to the country itself but primarily to the work force who persistently sustains it.

Uncovering the Issues of Philippine Outsourcing Industry……

Outsourcing has been regarded as one of the flourishing industries in the Philippines. It provides opportunities to thousand of Filipinos, especially to fresh college graduates, and has contributed to the growth of the country’s economy. The outsourcing industry shows a considerable amount of good performance to make it possibly as one of the nation’s leading industries at some point. However, such possibility might remain as such if the industry can’t overcome the present issues that are thrown against it. So what are these issues?

From a solid rock combination of political and economic perspective, outsourcing has been viewed as an exemplification of how developed nations exploit the resources of the developing ones. Most offshore companies engage in outsourcing in order to cut costs. If they outsource their operations and activities, they actually save costs because of the despicable labor wage in developing countries. Along this line, who are at the disadvantaged position? Of course, there is no need to explicitly stating the answer because it is obvious. But the thing is, the workers will not demand anything because at their present condition, they just need an employment with a salary that compromise to national standards. But if you critically think about it, Filipino outsourcing workers deserve a better working condition which is being kept in the subsurface as of the moment.

Another issue that confronts the industry is that the country is often viewed as politically unstable. The expansion of outsourcing downward south might be uneasy as there are negative advisories to this area. While it is true that only isolated areas have unstable political climate. Still, this won’t convince the foreign investors to establish business in those areas in an outright manner.

Much has been said about the issues that plagued the Philippine Outsourcing Industry in an article that is brief as this. Though there are still so many to point out, still, those are enough for one to think whether the industry is confident enough to face these challenges or not. Whatever the outcome or possible development, that is something for everyone to speculate as for the mean time.

A Fundamental Connection between Business and IT

Business has always been a dynamic field in the global community. From time to time, its character changes whenever there are advances in other fields especially in information and communication technology. If one would trace back over the years or perhaps even from the first moment humans transact business with each other, business and the means of communication and information seems to have this fundamental connection that will never be severed regardless of time, place, and the people engaging in it. The varied IT tools and the means of communication directly affects the quality and quantity of business deals. Hence, it affects the outcomes of these transactions and held a significant role in the overall conduct of business.

The present means of doing business is a case in point. As information technology gets immensely sophisticated, business seems to have been revolutionized virtually in all of its aspects. From the managing of a company’s administration up to the assessment of its performance, the advances in IT have always been making these things more efficient, effective, and surprisingly wonderful. For instance, outsourcing in web development and graphics design becomes a trend and even done off-shored. These would not be possible if not for the enhancement and sophistication of varied IT tools in data management, communication means, software development, among others.

The advances in business are not made realize without the help of information technology. The enhanced ways and means in doing business are quite unimaginable in the earlier decades where IT is still at the tips of where it is now. The quality of information and communication technology determines the quality of business transactions. For this reason, the idea that IT and business are fundamentally interlinked with each other is real. And this idea will resonate throughout the marching of time and will always be that way until a presently unthinkable circumstance will disprove this claim.

The Brilliance of Outsourcing ( insights on Web Development services)

When the Internet started to become a popular means of easily acquiring information, firms started to realize that something could be made out of that. And it is the opportunity to enhance their sales, performance, and in effect increase their profit. They were right. Over the years, the Internet has kept its promise. It boosts the overall performance of business firms in a way that is unprecedented and exceptional. It is undeniable that the Internet is a revolutionary tool which makes human life better and sophisticated. And for businesses, moving towards this advancement would mean needing the help of web developers and programmers to make their presence felt in the World Wide Web.

Web development refers to any activities relating to web sites and the Internet. This aims to create a virtual space, which enable companies to advertise their products and services to consumers around the globe. As more and more businesses realize the importance of having an online presence, the demand for web development has grown immensely. Many web development companies have sprouted as the demand increased. They even continually update their services by including web support agents, interactive graphic designs, enhanced web programming, search engine optimization, among other advances to better suit their client’s need.

One of the amazing advances of web development is that it is now done through outsourcing. Outsourcing web development is one of the most engaged businesses nowadays. With U.S. as one of the leading country who engages in outsourcing, it is undeniable that the industry has gained enough momentum for its continued growth. Developing countries, which are the outsourcing destinations like Philippines, have also benefited from this recent phenomenon. Though there are criticisms that through outsourcing, developed nations have taken advantage of the despicable labor wage in developing nations, the thought that it provides employment opportunities weighs more and makes everyone lauds the industry so much.

With outsourcing web development, the skills and talents of those from the developing nations are incorporated to the dynamics of the global community. Hence, this would be an added value for those people who might be unemployed if not for these advances and whose potentialities were, in the past, unrecognized. All in all, the current conditions brought by the revolutions in information technology provided an array of opportunities for businessmen and ordinary people alike. For this reason, the continued growth and influence of the IT industry will be sustained until such time a new advancement will rise up.

a bit of history….

Being new to the IT world, I always find myself confused with the terms and processes that are present in such field. Though my task is more on blogging, still, it is inevitable for me to be familiar and understand, as deep as I can, to the nature and the core concepts that are fundamental to the IT industry. It leads me to question what’s the reason for the establishment of the said Industry? Who’s responsible for it? And how does it affect the global social and commercial landscape?

With a bit of a research, I came to find the following answers to satisfy my own inquiry and might as well yours. I won’t promise that these answers will absolutely clear all the doubts about the origin of the IT world, rather I just opt to give the readers some hint and key ideas that will be informative to a questioning mind.

The development of the IT Industry is almost exactly synonymous with the development and popularity of the internet or the information superhighway. It was not until 1983 that internet came into being and became subject to regulation in the early 90s. The campaign for investing on the internet was not easy. As one of its proponents in the US, AL Gore actually experience difficulties in convincing the people in general or the business sector to believe on the possibilities and opportunities that an information superhighway can give. It started way back in the 70s, but conservative politicians are being skeptical to the usefulness of the internet. After lots of campaigns and heated debates against the skeptics, the Gore Bill was approved in the U.S. legislation and legitimizes the said system that is now getting popular throughout the world.

With the rise of the internet, all sorts of human affairs rises up to a higher level; a level that is more efficient, effective, and impressive. Social networking sites grow very popular as the years gone by, even commerce via the net seems unstoppable to anticipate. Hence, the way humans deal with each other in all fields seems revolutionized most especially in doing business. The IT industry offers a lot of things in improving the sales and performance of companies. IT outsourcing, search engine optimization, name it and they have it all. All for the cause of improving the access of clients to products and services and as well presenting the things that a company can offer. Isn’t this wonderful? This ideas and concepts may be unknown decades ago, but they now holds importance in this world where complexity and sophistication is the name of the game. And the IT industry can help someone with that.