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Avasant Global Sourcing

Overview

We make the world your source.

Avasant Global Sourcing (formerly Stradling Global Sourcing) helps you navigate the complete lifecycle for sourcing IT and Business Process services. Our management consultants, advisors, and lawyers offer focused advisory services for developing your sourcing strategy, executing your sourcing transactions and effectively managing your sourcing relationships. Our methods and practices have been refined over decades of experience spread across a talented team serving clients worldwide. Our team has conducted over 1,000 sourcing engagements collectively since 2001 in over 40 countries. The Black Book of Outsourcing's annual survey ranks Avasant among the top ten sourcing advisors in the world.

Services Offered

Our proven lifecycle methodology saves time, lowers costs and manages business risk. Its flexibility provides for customized solutions to meet your unique needs. The lifecycle includes:

• Strategy Development – establishing a practical sourcing strategy that calls for outsourcing only where it makes business sense;
• Transaction Execution– selecting the best providers and striking optimal deals through a competitive RFP process in less than 6 months;
• Sourcing Management– establishing key roles and processes to manage deals effectively at a reasonable cost.

For your IT and Business Process services sourcing needs, you can count on our advisory team to add significant value.

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• US Economic Slowdown and its Challenges To the Indian Outsourcing Industry
  
  After 5 years of sustained growth, when the Indian outsourcing industry witnessed revenue growth in excess of 30% Year-On-Year, the IT firms were the cynosure of the stock market. But in 2007, shares of Indian IT firms fell to become among the worst performers in a booming local market, hurt by concerns over the impact of a slowdown in the US, rising local wages and an appreciating currency. The once red-hot sector that employs some two million workers is showing signs of strains. However, the leaders in the industry are not sitting back. A series of strategies are on the anvil to minimize the impact of such challenges. In our view, this difficult period will help the industry become more mature and develop more innovative delivery & profitability models.
  
  
• Remote Infrastructure Management
  
  In the last few years, three independent forces have converged together — the rapid evolution in remote server-management technologies and IT architectures, changes in customer behaviors and demand patterns, and developments in the provider and offshore supply environment — and this is propelling the industry toward accelerated adoption of RIM.
  
  
• Renegotiating IT Outsourcing Deals – An Overview
  
  Outsourcing is deeply entrenched as a feature of the global economy as we presently know it, and companies dealing with international outsourcing transactions should be familiar with the nature of these transactions, particularly in the IT industry. This paper provides an overview of outsourcing contracts and their renegotiation from the perspective of service recipients that seek to identify ways to shift the delivery of services to offsite and offshore environments and minimize the inherent risks.