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We see little further upside to the value of Ayala Land's unused land bank going forward with increasing competition from cheaper alternative [offices] for call center and business process outsourcing clients.

Leo Venezuela

Companies in business services and outsourcing, we believe provide nice secular growth and have some resilience to a generally difficult economy.

David Kaslow

Fighting a battle against outsourcing.

James R. Hoffa (jimmy)

It's not as if everyone is shifting away from IT, but there are some other sectors like alternative energy, business services, and outsourcing that have drawn a little bit of interest away from IT.

Josh Grove

Whilst much attention has been given to UK companies outsourcing jobs to India, the fact is that successful Indian businesses – notably in the technology sector – are expanding rapidly in the global market and bringing new jobs to London.

Michael Charlton

No objective analysts, even if they were in favor of outsourcing, would write a report like this.

Ron Hira

By internalizing their Internet services instead of outsourcing them, it could be a good thing for Gateway. It's not critical, though. They're doing well with their hardware, their personal computer sales, so it's not as important overall.

Kevin Hause

We are also planning to set up an outsourcing centre for computer aided manufacturing (CAM) related work for global firms, including leading contract manufacturers.

Anil Gupta

The fundamental issue has always been employment security. Outsourcing is seen as an attack on employment security. Fundamentally, the issue of employment security has not gone away. But because of the global economy, it's hard to say you're anti-outsourcing.

Charles Bofferding

We essentially already have gaming. It's in our backyard, whether we want it or not. We are outsourcing these gaming jobs.

Debra Teufel

They actually have the consulting side as part of their business, to advise on a range of aspects of outsourcing.

Tony Williams

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Lee Kuan Yew

The fact that it's based on the Web doesn't make the project any easier, ... You need to do all the due diligence that you'd do on any outsourcing project, especially one that's this strategic.

Ajay Singh

I'm dubious that the boost in corporate profitability from outsourcing has contributed much to creating new jobs.

Lee Price

We are looking for a more lasting relationship with our sponsors. We are involved in negotiations with a marketing company for outsourcing sponsorship to assist us.

David Gilbert

[So is IBM's announcement the beginning of the shift to on-demand computing? Some say absolutely:] We're on the tip of a change on the order of magnitude of [the beginning of] the client server in late '80s, ... Our estimates are that outsourcing and on-demand computing will cut IT costs [buying and operating] in half over the next five years.

Frank Gillett

Ericsson was the first to make a major announcement a few years back, ... More recently, we saw Nortel, and that was followed by Lucent's announcement a few weeks ago, which will probably ultimately end up at about $10 billion being outsourced there. And now we have Motorola making a major announcement for outsourcing.

Keith Dunne

This is a big win. We're very pleased to be a major part of GM's third-generation outsourcing model.

Jeff Kelly

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

Mario Morales

There's a lot of headroom to go further -- a lot of efficiencies that can still be created. There will be some barriers, but as long as the corporate mandate is to increase profit and reduce cost, the only two solutions are automation and outsourcing -- companies in either one of those [industries] will do well.

Trip Chowdry

In rational dollars-and-cents terms, e-mail outsourcing makes a lot of sense. Most companies aren't doing very much (with e-mail) that is unique.

Tim Sloane

We want to start outsourcing within this fiscal year.

Katsuhiko Machida

I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs . . . to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.

Buzz Hargrove

Outsourcing isn't just strategic and tactical. Once you make a move, the invisible hand gets to work.

Lars Gustavsson

Every time we have an outsourcing forum, it's like a GE and McKinsey alumni association meeting.

Sunil Mehta

The one thing that gives (the union) that power is that outsourcing jobs takes a lot of time, but if you make life very difficult for the manufacturer these jobs are leaving.

Richard Aboulafia

When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.

David Brenner

We're on the tip of a change on the order of magnitude of [the beginning of] the client server in late '80s. Our estimates are that outsourcing and on-demand computing will cut IT costs [buying and operating] in half over the next five years.

Frank Gillett

Actually, there's not as much outsourcing as many companies would realistically hope. A lot of nightmarish scenarios have emerged from outsourcing, with some companies opting to move their call centers back in-house, due to customer complaints.

Jeff Markham

There are many advantages to being based here - it's a more mobile market, and there is access to lower development costs through outsourcing.

Doug Richard

It's important for Americans to collaborate more than they have been, ... It's unfortunate that everyone has put a stake in the ground that outsourcing is totally bad or totally good. No one's looking in the middle.

Robert Dunn

Outsourcing would be a misnomer.

Michael Becker

One place is in proven vertical domain expertise. There's just a lot more knowledge and experience in North America than in areas where [outsourcing] is new to them. You can import management, but the industry isn't importing hundreds of thousands of agents with proven vertical expertise.

Donna Fluss

You don't see major corporations abandoning their e-mail infrastructure, but they are beginning to seek outsourcing to handle things like remote mail and calendaring, ... Messaging Online.

Eric Arnum

You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has been threatened with outsourcing, be it Italy, be it Australia, New Zealand, and certainly, Canada.

Ed Asner