| Excerpt
from The Harvard Business Review - 'Serving
the World's Poor, Profitably': “Companies
realizing savings locating labor-intensive functions
such as call centers, marketing, and back-office processing
in developing areas. eg, the nearly 20 companies that
use www.OrphanIT.com's
affiliate-marketing services, provided via its telecenters
in India and the Philippines, pay 1/10 the going rate
for similar services in the US or Australia.
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla describes the remote-services
opportunity this way: "I suspect that by 2010, we
will be talking about [remote services] as the fastest-growing
part of the world economy, with many trillions of dollars
of new markets created.". |
