Outsourcing opens doors in global village

The Age
THE offshore outsourcing train has left the station and Australia doesn't even have a ticket, according to FoobooOnline.com president Martin Conboy. Mr Conboy is in the business of match-making. His newly launched FooBooOnline.com (Front Office Outsourcing Back Office Outsourcing) business offers a website portal as a single point of contact between buyers and suppliers of outsourcing services in the Asia-Pacific marketplace. He believes businesses that do not assess their outsourcing or offshoring opportunities will be left behind. "If we don't get on to this train then overseas organisations will come over here and where (companies) have got comfortable … will eat their lunch," Mr Conboy said. "Unless they've got something so fantastically special that people are prepared to pay a premium for it, they'll go out of business. Outsourcing is not a blip on the economic radar. It's a growing and accelerating trend. Currently the market is worth about $US130 billion ($A180 billion)." more...