Business Moving to International Shores


by AJEET KHURANA - Date: 2007-06-20 - Word Count: 459 Share This!

In this day and age we are all witness to how the world is becoming a smaller place. The rapid developments in telecommunications have given a great deal of encouragement this movement. The entire world is slowly turning into a common market, with the Internet playing quite a big role in this development. The evolution of e-commerce is an example of how people from Canada can just as easily sell goods to those in Australia as they might to people a few buildings away. Businesses, both big and small, have not been slow to react to the need to reach out to a great diversity of people.

One of the results of this coming together of the world is seen in the growth of off-shoring. Why should a company decide to take to off-shoring? The primary reason for this is that companies want to reduce their expenditure as far as possible. If this means having a setup on a different continent so that the costs may reduce considerably, so be it. Transportation is certainly not a problem in the modern world. So China and India have emerged as top off-shoring destinations for countries from all parts of the globe.

A regular mistake that we all make is to assume that off-shoring is the same as outsourcing. Well, let me give you some low-down about the two. The two are quite different. Outsourcing generally means giving out a contract to do a piece of work to an external company. However, off-shoring refers the transferring of a part of the operations to a different unit (either of the same company or a different one) but which is situated on different shores. Outsourcing could be done within the same country, but not off-shoring. The latter necessarily refers to a geographical distance.

Off-shoring is generally of two main types. These are production off-shoring and services off-shoring. The main example of production off-shoring can be seen in the case of China, where production costs are the bare minimum. Thus, companies that want to save on their production costs by and large rush off to Chinese locations to produce their goods.

As far as services off-shoring is concerned, a terrific example is the case of India. Thanks to the astounding expansion of the telecom industry and thanks to the great Internet boom, after the 1990s, there was an opening for nations which would incur lower costs to enter the services field. Thus, India, with her pool of English-speaking people turned out to be just the right thing.

Of course, off-shoring is today becoming a global phenomenon, and it continues to increase its influence everyday.

Ajeet Khurana recommends that you find out more by reading: Offshore Company Formation, Offshore Company Formation, and Offshore Bank Accounts.


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