Indian?? Outsourcing

            American Indians - Another Outsourcing Option

Story: The Other Indian Outsourcer, BusinessWeek, 11/6/2006, www.businessweek.com

I had written previously about rural outsourcing but this piece in BusinessWeek about Accenture committing to a five-year outsourcing arrangement with a native American group was interesting. Here is a business opportunity to use on-shore workers whose employers are in low cost of living areas and pay no corporate taxes.

Great business leaders find ways to make things work in their own country. Swatch bucked the decline in Swiss watch making a couple of decades ago by finding a new way to keep making and selling Swiss watches. More U.S. based firms should do likewise. It doesn't take much work or thinking to offshore or outsource much of one's business. That's something anyone can do. But, finding a unique way to stay onshore and/or keep functions in-house while still staying cost-competitive is more challenging.

I like executives who think outside the box and I support any new business idea that provides jobs and opportunities to the one's own countrymen, especially to the original Americans.