Offshoring News

Research Agencies to Boost Outsourcing in the next 3 to 5 years
Source: Outsourcing Insider: Market research Outsourcing (MRO) is relatively new compared to other outsourcing segments. It has all the potential elements to grow into unprecedented levels, as current market conditions forced research cycles to be shortened in order to be more cost efficient. Data collection, processing and panel services are the top outsourced activities due their high offshorability. While project management, report writing and research design were determined to be the most difficult areas to offshore.

Research agencies are expected to boost outsourcing of non-core activities in the next 3 to 5 years, as shown in the data above. Industry experts estimate the potential for offshoring research services to be in the range of $8 billion to $10 billion in 2010. “This growth will be primarily driven by ‘rapidly growing’ and other ‘untapped’ opportunities”