The Law and Economics of Financial Markets

What is Outsourcing? How about Off Shoring? What's the difference?
Where does India fir into the Global picture? What do I need to know about the culture there?

The aim of this book is to tackle the above questions and more in a simple, easy to read manner and provide a reference of sorts for the uninitiated among us with a heavy leaning towards the country of India and why so many companies are sending more and more of their operations there. This is not a book for those who have been outsourcing for 20 years, it is however a book for those business professionals who would like to begin the journey of understanding a business practice that will one day seem as commonplace as using FedEx to overnight documents. In the not too distant past many companies kept functions like electricity generation and phone service "in house". Today that would seem fool hardy. We believe the same transformation will happen to IT and other business functions, only this time on a global scale. And we believe the country of India will play a big part in this transformation. As almost no large company will be left out of this paradigm shift, it will become increasing relevant for executives to know about the countries and cultures that will be supporting their organizations. This book starts you on that journey.

About the Authors:

• Dermot McCormack
  • McCormack is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur and has been heavily involved in the strategic implementation of technology for both new and established companies over the past 2 decades particularly specializing, as he likes to put it, in "the intersection of Sales, Marketing and Digital Media".
• Bharat Sharma
  • Starting out as a programmer in India, Bharat has spent the last decade in a variety of positions in the IT business an is currently managing director of Monsoon Consulting, an IT outsourcing business .
• Fergal O'Byrne
  • Fergal O'Byrne is an internet industry entrepreneur and marketing consultant. He founded Interactive Return in 1998.Fergal is the author of 10 Online Marketing and Search Engine Essentials and has also written fiction works for radio, stage and film.
• David Goldberg
  • Mr. Goldberg's 20 years in IT expands over a myriad of industries and his deep understanding of the financial and political models needed to support the volatile IT environment continues to help transform IT organizations. David has been leveraging his experience to elevate IT organizations out of the pure support model to viable business entities.