{"id":194,"date":"2006-04-06T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/06\/chennai-emerges-as-best-city-for-offshoring\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:54:15","slug":"chennai-emerges-as-best-city-for-offshoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/04\/06\/chennai-emerges-as-best-city-for-offshoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai emerges as best city for offshoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chennai <\/strong>has emerged as the most attractive city for offshoring, beating traditional top cities like Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida or NCR, Bangalore and Mumbai. Hyderabad follows as a close second-most attractive city. <strong>Kolkata <\/strong>is emerging as a credible alternative to cities with more established offshoring services industries. These key findings were released by <strong>A.T. Kearney <\/strong>on Saturday, the global management consultancy firm in their Indian City Services Attractiveness Index 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The cities have been benchmarked as attractive based on <strong>three <\/strong>major categories of <strong>financial costs <\/strong>(compensation costs, infrastructure costs, cost of living); <strong>people skills &#038; availability<\/strong> (availability, educational skills &#038; attrition rates); and the <strong>business environment <\/strong>(city infrastructure, quality of life and government support). <\/p>\n<p>Chennai emerged as a clear leader across all categories followed by Hyderabad, NCR and Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nine <\/strong>Indian cities of Chennai, Hyderabad, NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Kochi and Jaipur were assessed for their attractiveness for placing offshoring services.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Mr Mohit Rana<\/strong>, principal, communication &#038; technology practice, A. T. Kearney, Gurgaon, they see a &#8220;<strong>trend of vendors developing Tier 2 locations as the Tier 1 are expensive<\/strong>.&#8221; Mr Arjun Sethi, principal, BPO &#038; offshoring, A. T. Kearney, New York, said, &#8220;The A. T. Kearney study as expected reflects that the Tier 2 cities have a significant cost advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai has emerged as the most attractive city for offshoring, beating traditional top cities like Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida or NCR, Bangalore and Mumbai. Hyderabad follows as a close second-most attractive city. Kolkata is emerging as a credible alternative to cities with more established offshoring services industries. These key findings were released by A.T. Kearney on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,3],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}