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Outsourcing to China
Watch out, India
May 4th 2006 | XIAN
From The Economist1 print edition

China is way behind India in the business of outsourced services, but it has now started to catch up Imaginechina

 

The sheer size of this undertaking2 betrays China's ambition to become a global power in software and services to match its pre-eminence in manufacturing. Attracting outsourced business is central to this. ①The worldwide market for offshore3 spending on IT services for (predominantly) Western companies will reach $50 billion by 2007, according to Gartner, a consultancy, and is growing in double digits4. The market for BPO, which encompasses5 processing bills and credit-card applications to managing entire human-resources operations, should be worth another $24 billion by next year, and is expanding even faster.

Meanwhile fears about piracy6 of intellectual property—more rampant7 in China than India—will constrain8 growth. Though foreign companies in China say that copying sophisticated IT processes is difficult and can be thwarted9 by relatively10 simple safeguards, the perception that sensitive business information is at risk is likely to slow development.

②All this suggests that, for the moment, China is likely to capture an increasing share of low-level BPO tasks, such as data entry, form processing and software testing, while India continues to dominate higher-value functions, such as research and design, which require greater creativity and language skills.However, this will change as more western firms demand support in China and domestic opportunities grow. And it isn't just pure competition between the two countries: last year, TCS signed a deal with the Chinese government and Microsoft to build China's first big software company, which aims to provide IT services for the Olympics.

翻译提示:①spending on IT services,这个分词短语应该怎么处理? ②capture一词译成什么合适呢?

背景知识:

1.什么是外包(outsourcing)?

外包就是企业做自己最能干的事情(扬已所长),把其它的工作外包给能做好这些事情的专业组织(避已之短)。外包业是新近兴起的一个行业,它给企业带来了新的活力。

2.外包分境内外包和离岸外包

外包根据供应商的地理分布状况划分为两种类型:境内外包和离岸外包。境内外包是指外包商与其外包供应商来自同一个国家,因而外包工作在国内完成。离岸外包则指外包商与其供应商来自不同国家,外包工作跨国完成。由于劳动力成本的差异,外包商通常来自劳动力成本较高的国家,如美国、西欧和日本,外包供应商则来自劳动力成本较低的国家,如印度、菲律宾和中国。

虽然境内和离岸外包具有许多类似的属性,但它们差别很大。境内外包更强调核心业务战略、技术和专门知识、从固定成本转移至可变成本、规模经济、重价值增值甚于成本减少;离岸外包则主要强调成本节省、技术熟练的劳动力的可用性,利用较低的生产成本来抵消较高的交易成本。在考虑是否进行离岸外包时,成本是决定性的因素,技术能力、服务质量和服务供应商等因素次之。

3.哪些业务适合外包?

通常外包的业务内容,主要包括信息技术,其次是人力资源、财务和会计。

4.谁被全球发包商青睐?

印度目前是IT离岸外包市场的中心,据称至少80%的全球外包业务都去了印度。其它外包目的地则遍及亚洲、欧洲、非洲和南美洲,包括中国、菲律宾、俄罗斯、墨西哥、新加坡、爱尔兰、北爱尔兰、以色列、南非、东欧和巴基斯坦等。这些国家的排序比较模糊,因为每个国家都有其自身的优势和缺陷。

根据McKinsey的调查,印度是迄今为止最受离岸外包业务青睐的地区,这主要得益于其在成本和质量上的综合优势。爱尔兰和以色列可以提供良好的基础设施和多语言人才,但费用过高。有些国家则是质量和成本之外的因素较为突出。例如,中国可以提供较低成本和有特殊技能的软件专业人才,以完成那些文档已丢失的项目。与印度相比,中国的竞争优势在于劳动力成本,但在质量上远远落后。

 

≡参考答案:≡

 

①The worldwide market for offshore spending on IT services for (predominantly) Western companies will reach $50 billion by 2007, according to Gartner, a consultancy, and is growing in double digits.

据市场研究公司Gartner称,到2007年, 西方公司外包IT服务支出的全球市场将达到500亿美元,目前正 以两位数的速度增长。

②All this suggests that, for the moment, China is likely to capture an increasing share of low-level BPO tasks, such as data entry, form processing and software testing, while India continues to dominate higher-value functions, such as research and design, which require greater creativity and language skills.

这一切表明,目前中国可能会包揽越来越多的低端BPO业务,如数据输入、表格处理和软件测试,而印度 将继续主导一些高端职能部门,如研究与设计。因为这些高端职能部门要求劳动力具备很高的创造力和 熟练的语言技能。



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1 economist AuhzVs     
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
参考例句:
  • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
  • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
2 undertaking Mfkz7S     
n.保证,许诺,事业
参考例句:
  • He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
  • He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
3 offshore FIux8     
adj.海面的,吹向海面的;adv.向海面
参考例句:
  • A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
  • A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
4 digits a2aacbd15b619a9b9e5581a6c33bd2b1     
n.数字( digit的名词复数 );手指,足趾
参考例句:
  • The number 1000 contains four digits. 1000是四位数。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The number 410 contains three digits. 数字 410 中包括三个数目字。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5 encompasses cba8673f835839b92e7b81ba5bccacfb     
v.围绕( encompass的第三人称单数 );包围;包含;包括
参考例句:
  • The job encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. 这项工作涉及的职责范围很广。
  • Its conservation law encompasses both its magnitude and its direction. 它的守恒定律包括大小和方向两方面。 来自辞典例句
6 piracy 9N3xO     
n.海盗行为,剽窃,著作权侵害
参考例句:
  • The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
  • They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。
7 rampant LAuzm     
adj.(植物)蔓生的;狂暴的,无约束的
参考例句:
  • Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
  • You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
8 constrain xpCzL     
vt.限制,约束;克制,抑制
参考例句:
  • She tried to constrain herself from a cough in class.上课时她竭力忍住不咳嗽。
  • The study will examine the factors which constrain local economic growth.这项研究将考查抑制当地经济发展的因素。
9 thwarted 919ac32a9754717079125d7edb273fc2     
阻挠( thwart的过去式和过去分词 ); 使受挫折; 挫败; 横过
参考例句:
  • The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison. 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
  • Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain. 我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。
10 relatively bkqzS3     
adv.比较...地,相对地
参考例句:
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
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