IT expert unsure on outsourcing after US polls

IT experts in both the US and India are still not sure if the cry against outsourcing of jobs would abate after the American presidential polls, a leading author and expert said here.

"Whether the cry against outsourcing abates after the November elections, this is the question I heard when I went to the Nasscom summit early this year. The same question was asked in New York last month. Everyone wants to know, but not many of them have an answer," Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, an author of a book on outsourcing to India said on Wednesday night.

Hillary, who has written 'Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage', which he says is a practical guide for managers to know cultural and business issues in IT offshoring, said, the next big thing in IT outsourcing would be Indian IT service firms bidding for $1 billion deals.

Hillary, along with Ford Motor's European IT business strategy manager Mahesh Ramachandran is currently researching to write a book on 'Beyond BPO' expected to be released next year.