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The phrase “offshore outsourcing" has become ubiquitous in the Information Technology (IT) industry. It is spread all over in trade publications, and you can hear it in many places ranging from the company boardroom to the water cooler. If you are involved with any facet of the IT industry, it is important to learn more about this latest development in evolution of the industry. In this article, I will present an overview of the offshore outsourcing scene and the various ways in which companies are involved in offshore outsourcing. At the end, a set of recommendations is listed for business owners, managers, and other stakeholders who are considering offshore outsourcing for their organization. Please be advised this article only addresses IT offshore outsourcing. It does not cover outsourcing in other industries. LetÂ’s start by defining the term “offshore." Offshore in the phrase “offshore outsourcing" refers to any country where wages for IT professionals are substantially lower than in the US, UK, Western Europe, and Japan. The major destination countries for offshore work are India, Russia, and Ireland. Other places to note include countries in Eastern Europe, such as Ukraine and Bulgaria, Brazil, South Africa, Israel, and China. Low wages in these countries are a result of the low cost of living. The wages in these countries can be anywhere from one-third to one-tenth of the wages for similar skills in Western markets. It is worth mentioning that IT skills in these nations translate into 20-50% higher salaries than their respective national average salaries for all professions. Next, letÂ’s define the term “outsourcing." From a business point of view, outsourcing is a situation in which a defined piece of work is performed by an external third party provider. At times the line of authority of an external provider can be blurry - a global company may pass around work among different departments spanning the companyÂ’s own offices in multiple countries. Generally speaking, however, outsourcing involves two or more independent companies working together. For example, American Company A prepares the specifications for a software application, and then passes it to Ukrainian Company B for actual design and development. After the work is completed, Company A receives the finished product from Company B. Software development is one type of IT work that can be outsourced. Remote system administration and product maintenance are some other types of work that are routinely outsourced by IT firms.Putting our definitions of offshore and outsourcing together, we can now effectively define IT offshore outsourcing – it is the outsourcing of IT work to offshore countries. Offshore outsourcing is actually not a recent phenomenon. IT offshore outsourcing has been occurring as early as the 1970Â’s. There were several Indian companies that provided services to American firms at that time. IT offshore outsourcing started to take off in the early 1990Â’s and gained further popularity during the Internet Boom of late 1990Â’s. Then, with the crash of the Internet Boom, offshore outsourcing came into center stage – the biggest driver was the fact that businesses were scrambling to cut costs and offshore outsourcing provided a viable means of lowering cost of operations and new development.Below are the different categories that can be used to group companies working in the offshore outsourcing space - Type I: Fully offshore. These are small companies operating in the offshore countries. They can have anywhere from 1 to 50 employees. A major feature that distinguishes these companies is that they spend very little, if anything, on external marketing. Their business mostly comes from word of mouth promotion and referral from existing clients. Rarely do they have offices in countries where their clients come from. Also, freelancers and informal teams of friends and associates working together are part of the Type I category. Type II: Fully offshore with own representative office (for marketing, requirements engineering, etc.) in the client countries. Given the representative office in the client countries, Type II companies can more effectively get client leads and market their services. Companies operating in this space are medium to large sized, with an employee pool ranging from 50 to several hundred. On the top rung in this category are a handful of companies like Indian Satyam and Wipro, employing thousands and generating revenues in millions of US dollars.Type III: Western companies with their own dedicated development centers located in offshore countries. This arrangement is commonly referred to as the hybrid model. Using their offshore centers, Western companies can leverage their local talent in the respective country and use it for a variety of tasks. Most major global IT companies have a presence offshore, and now several medium sized companies are also turning to this alternative. Type IV: Western companies acting as middlemen for offshore companies. Also known as service brokers, they maintain their own network of offshore firms (mostly Type I). Type IV firms may offer end to end management of projects, including project and financial risk management, or simply introduce a Western company to an offshore provider and charge a commission on the work performed.Following is a set of recommendations for using offshore resources -- Identify potential companies by inquiring in your circle of associates and checking online offshore provider directories. Unless your organization is fairly large, it would be ideal to approach only Type I and III companies. Type II companies mostly work with Fortune 1000 caliber clients.- After identifying some prospects, learn as much as you can about the company. Carefully look through their online case studies and portfolios. If a company looks like a good candidate for partnership, contact them for names, email addresses and, if possible, phone numbers of their existing clients. If their existing clients are established companies themselves, it is a good sign that the company you are considering is reliable.- Once you have made a decision on partnering with an offshore provider, start by giving them small, non-essential projects or pieces of a project. This will allow you to assess the relationship without jeopardizing any of your own business in case the arrangement does not work the way you had envisioned. In which case, try to resolve the issues. Any reasonable business owner will endeavor to work with his or her clients towards a mutual resolution of any differences or misconceptions. - Be sure to have risk management mechanisms in place and sign service level (SLAs) agreements with your offshore partners. As the situation requires, non-compete and non-disclosure agreements may also be signed. Before sending off work to an offshore provider, it is well worth the time to lay out formal procedures to respond to events like network crashes (at your site or the providerÂ’s site) and deadline extensions.Offshore outsourcing has become an integral part of the IT industry. In the next few years, its role will only become more important. Gartner Research predicts that 25% of IT jobs will be “offshored" by year 2010. 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Medical billing outsourcing, also known as third-party medical billing, is regulated by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The OIG was created by Congress through the Inspector General Act of 1978 in response to a series of government scandals that occurred within nearly every major Federal Agency throughout the 1960s. Lawmakers believed that by creating an independent Office of Inspector General for each Federal Agency; the government would be better able to detect fraud and prevent the waste and abuse of Federal taxpayer monies. The hope was that these Federal watchdogs would reestablish the public's confidence in government agencies.The Office of the Inspector General, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, developed and released the Compliance Program Guidance for Third Party Medical Billing Companies on November 30, 1998. The intent of this program is to promote a higher level of ethical and lawful conduct throughout the entire health care industry; and to protect the solvency and stability of the Medicare Trust Fund (also known as Medicare). Before we go on any further don't get the impression that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) carries some sort of grudge against or questions the validity of medical billing outsourcing services. Prior to the Compliance Program Guidance for Third Party Medical Billing Companies was established, the HHS had already issued compliance programs for the clinical laboratory and hospital industries as well as home health care agencies. The legislation comes in response to the proliferation of medical billing out sourcing companies throughout the health care industry; the undo influence these medical billing services could have on a physician's billing and coding practices; and the potential negative effects of unscrupulous billing and coding practices by these medical billing services on Medicare. Like most OIG-issued compliance programs, conformity to the Compliance Program Guidance for Third Party Medical Billing Companies is strictly voluntary. On other hand, issues that arise due to a failure on the part of the medical billing service to abide by these "voluntary" compliance programs could expose the billing service to legal actions brought on by the U.S Government. Protect yourself and your business by interpreting "voluntary" as "mandatory" or be prepared to suffer the consequences. The OIG has identified seven fundamental elements to an effective compliance program. They are:1.Implementing written policies, procedures and standards of conduct;2.Designating a compliance officer and compliance committee;3.Conducting effective training and education;4.Developing effective lines of communication;5.Enforcing standards through well publicized disciplinary guidelines;6.Conducting internal monitoring and auditing; and7.Responding promptly to detected offenses and developing corrective action.In future articles I will continue to explain the Compliance Program Guidance for Third Party Medical Billing Companies in plain English so you can take the steps necessary to protect your medical billing service from unwanted government intervention. If you are a health care professional outsourcing to a medical billing service you too should be interested in this program. Ask your medical billing service to provide you with documentation showing the steps they take to insure compliance to this very important program. Be a smart business owner and protect your practice from unwanted government action. http://www.mmanews.com/blog/zxcvb0507/4 ... %E3%82%B9/ ミュウミュウ 財布 クロムハーツ ブレスレット marc by marc jacobs バッグ トリーバーチ サンダル マークバイマークジェイコブス バッグ オークリー ジュリエット

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