Special Features1 Forecast Research on future technology trends or innovation Trends
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Forrester has increased its estimate of how many US services jobs will go offshore in the near term. Long term, we believe that our previous projection of 3.3 million by 2015 is still accurate. The near-term increase is driven by a combination of the following four factors: 1) Visibility has encouraged more conservative companies to experiment with going offshore to protect themselves competitively; 2) a broadening of the IT services offered by offshore vendors like Wipro and Infosys; 3) the establishment of captive offshore centers by user companies for business process outsourcing (BPO); and 4) onshore IT technology and services vendors setting up shop in locations like India, China, and Belarus to develop/maintain products or provide lower-cost services. List of FiguresThis report includes the following figures, available in downloadable PowerPoint and/or Excel spreadsheet format. Figure 1: Most Firms Are Not Planning On Using Offshore Resources Figure 2: Firms That Already Offshore Plan To Increase Their Offshore Spending Figure 3: Forrester's Methodology Figure 4: Forecast: Resizing US Shift Of Service Jobs Offshore, 2003-2015 Figure 5: The Fortune 1,000s' Offshore Evolution, 2003-2008
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Offshore Visibility Has Increased
Forrester Increases Our Near-Term Offshore Numbers