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Over the years, not many automakers have been able to capture the fancy of American youth quite like Subaru has been able to do. However, categorizing Subaru as a brand only for the younger generation of Americans would be unfair since there are quite a few Subaru models in the market today that cater to an overall audience. Subaru's rise in popularity among the younger generation has been fueled by the tremendous success of sports-performance, economical and technologically superior cars like the Impreza, Impreza WRX and Legacy.
The exploits of Impreza models in the World Rally Championships (WRC) became a launch-pad for Subaru to promote its ground-breaking Boxer engine technology and the innovative symmetrical all-wheel drive on a global level. Today, we know Subaru as a car-brand that provides high-performance vehicles with more features and more value for money along with the reputed brand-name that is Subaru.
Subaru cars and SUVs are fast emerging as an intelligent choice for people who know a thing or two about automobiles. Most Subaru models come with best-in-class technological features and Subaru has been keen on maintaining this trend and use it as their USP. Across USA, Subaru has been able to establish multi-functional dealerships providing a host of facilities to the customers. Now there are no lengthy delays associated with orders for cars and car parts. Although Subaru parts are slightly expensive, the OEM quality is worth every penny.
In case you own a Subaru and are looking for replacement parts and spares, it is always advisable to go the OEM way. As long as you order brand-new parts from the dealership or buy used OEM parts either online or from scrap yards / junkyards, your vehicle is secure and the company warranty will withstand. The moment you replace any critical components with aftermarket parts and re-built parts, that would void the company warranty on your vehicle and there are more chances of the replaced part not complying with company norms and other parts working in tandem with it. I am sure you don't want to be in such a position.
If you don't want to spend too much on brand-new replacement parts, used auto parts are the best option available to you. Not only are these parts cheap, but they are also genuine company-made products. This option makes more sense if you own a slightly older model of Subaru.
Nowadays you can purchase used auto parts online at the click of a button without any hassles or tiresome visits to salvage yards. In addition to that, most online used-parts sellers provide added benefits like warranty, free home delivery, customer support, discounts and much more. There is no such thing as toil or delay associated with buying of used auto parts if done online.
For Subaru owners looking for inexpensive replacement parts, there are a number of dedicated websites committed to selling high-quality used OEM Subaru parts. Now there is no need to compromise on quality. You can get original used parts at half the price of brand new parts and have them shipped to your home address or directly to your mechanic without even moving a muscle.
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Kpo : Balanced View Of An It Market
Introduction
Outsourcing became a fashionable term in the beginning of the 90s. Many companies, having decided to focus on their core competencies to excel at the market place, chose to outsource noncore activities like Information Technology (IT). Recently, faced with daunting challenges and unhealthy alliances, most companies have been rethinking their IT outsourcing strategy. This report looks at the benefits and risks in IT outsourcing, and how to mitigate these risks. The report also focuses on India - the world's favorite IT outsourcing destination - the opportunities offered by this country and the challenges faced by companies in India. IT Outsourcing is defined as a decision taken by an organization to contract-out or sell some or all of the organization's IT assets, people and/or activities to a third party vendor, who in turn provides and manages the services for a certain time period and monetary fee.
In the recent years the term IT outsourcing is being increasingly used to include any IT activity that is not performed in-house by the company. These includes specific IT Projects, IT call center and service outsourcing etc. For the scope of this report, the latest definition will also be used as a basis for discussion. IT outsourcing industry is expected to grow at an annual rate of 16% to US$ 120 billion. The estimated global market share of the IT outsourcing industry in 1998 was US$ 99 billion. From a relatively unusual entrepreneurial activity, IT outsourcing has recently exploded across the global corporate landscape. Companies outsource IT for many reasons, ranging from its high profile and current popularity to cost pressures from competition and economic recession. Management often regard IT as a non-core activity and believes that IT service vendors have the necessary economics of scale and expertise to handle and provide better and more efficient IT services than their own in house IT department. Some companies are compelled to outsource their IT activity because IT is an enabler in a company and not a revenue producing activity, and managers would rather outsource non-revenue producing activity to a third party who is better skilled in handling such an operation. This perception of IT as a cost burden encourages companies to outsource this activity. Most of the IT operations are regarded as a commodity that does not differentiate the company from its competitors. When an IT operation does not provide a strategic advantage, companies prefer to outsource it to a third party or an outsourcing vendor, who generally claim that they can provide this service for less than what it costs the company's IT department. In the IT sector, technology is changing at a tremendous pace and organizations cannot keep up with these changing standards and newer technologies. It is at these unpredictable times organizations look at IT vendors to gain access to the best technologies in a cost-effective way.
"By FY 2008 at current rates of growth, India is expected to be among the top 3 countries in the world in IT revenues" BY Software Technology Park, India.
The birth of Indian IT Market
One of every four global giants outsource their software requirements to India. The IT outsourcing model was born in India. The Indian IT industry, being the first, introduced to Software Organizations, worldwide, the new and highly cost-effective mode of outsourcing. The large technical resource pool in India was the main reason for the proliferation of the outsourcing services. The cost of skilled manpower in India was lower than what other Technical giants offered. The fluency and versatility with English also proved fortifying for the emerging Indian IT region.
In the early 1990s, the Indian economy underwent a major change in terms globalization and privatization. The Telecom Industry was released from the monopoly of public sector. It changed the face of the Indian Telecom Sector with latest facilities, fast connectivity to the world and other advanced telecom technologies. The world started to see India as a strong IT and BPO service provider. Outsourcing that had started in the 1980s gained a momentum with the boost in the Telecom arena. Major IT leaders emerged in the Indian high tech cities to offer the most competitive brainpower, solutions and services with major time/cost benefits and global connectivity. The skill sets of the Indian technical professionals broadened. The wave of software education in universities and schools significantly added to the number of skilled resources produced, each year.
With India emerging as leaders in evolving cost-effective IT solutions, the quality focus was never lost. Soon Indian software providers started maintaining high quality and performance standards. Indian IT Industry proved its commitment and consciousness to provide world-class quality standards. The investment in ERP initiatives increased substantially. India soon became the ground for providing total solutions for Global clients to outsource turnkey projects. The IT skills extend expertise in a wide spectrum of services like sustenance engineering services, business process re-engineering, maintenance of legacy systems, system migration, embedded systems and e-commerce applications.
The Indian IT domain strengthened with the ability to provide world-class workplace, 24X7 connectivity, high-speed Internet connectivity and the best security and networking. Thus, evolved the concept of dedicated development centers wherein virtual extensions of the clients' business was established as different units in development centers in India. The clients' development environment is replicated in the unit setup in India. An onsite team transfers knowledge to the team of offshore professionals for absolute clarity on clients' business objectives.
Risks in IT Outsourcing:
There is a saying that goes around in the IT industry: ‘Every company gets the outsourcing partner it deserves'. There is a great element of truth in this saying. Companies that have inefficiently managed their IT department almost always find incompetent outsourcing partners. Whereas, organizations that outsource efficiently managed IT functions derive substantial and further benefits from outsourcing. Companies that have not done their homework prior to the outsourcing decision and companies that have viewed IT as a burden that has to be offloaded as soon as possible have realized that they are in a much worse quandary than ever before. Some of the other risks of IT outsourcing or causes for concern while considering to outsource are mentioned here:
þ Test the Market : Some companies do not undertake market testing and some do not even consider ‘in sourcing', where the company may be better of sourcing the activity to themselves, especially in the case of strategic IT functions.
þ Managing the Outsourcing Vendors :Most companies do not realize that in order to manage the outsourcing activity they need to have good management expertise in the company to begin with. Companies that have faced challenges in managing their own IT department may find it more difficult to handle the outsourcing vendor. Outsourcing the IT function does not naturally take away the scope of management, in fact it demands more efficient and more organized management, which results in better control of the off-site vendor.
þ Quality of Outsourcing Vendor : While many companies outsource their IT activity because they are incapable of finding and retaining programming staff, companies, much to their consternation, have realized that IT outsourcing vendors also face these same obstacles and challenges. There have been many instances where companies have discovered that IT vendors even bid for specialized projects for which they have no in-house expertise in the hope that they can find these specialists once the contract is secured. Companies that plan to outsource their IT activity may have to do in depth research on the bidders and their reputation and in-house talent.
þ Cost of Outsourcing : The biggest and the most frequent mishaps happen when companies focus on costs as their single most important driver for IT outsourcing. Most CEOs look at the balance sheet and see IT as one of the biggest consumers of company funds. This is because most of the cost benefits of IT are not transparent. While IT may help other departments to reduce costs, IT as itself may be seen as a department that has increasing costs year after year. Some companies have even gone to the extent of admitting that the so called esoteric benefits derived by IT are not substantiated. In such instances the companies readily outsource IT and see a change in their income statement that is immediate and in some cases even tremendous. But many companies are inadvertently signing away the investment in time and training incurred in developing an IT department. It is likely that the companies have sacrificed their crucial competencies and capabilities that may be extremely hard to regain when the company changes its focus in the future.
þ Adaptability of rapid IT development : One of the factors that motivate companies to outsource their IT activity is the belief that they cannot hope to adapt to the rapid changes and new developments in the market place. The companies believe that the vendors will have the agility, ability and the economics of scale to respond to the latest trends and development
þ Contract Lifecycle : The biggest dilemma companies face while deciding to outsource IT is the length of the contract. Some companies prefer short-term contract and some believe that long-term contract ensures long-term commitment from the vendor. Vendors typically do not prefer short-term contracts, but companies sometimes prefer such contracts as the field of IT is full of uncertainties and companies do not want to be stuck with a vendor who skills are no longer competitive in the market place. A long term contract normally ensures more investment in time and money by the vendors and also gives the vendors incentive to update their skills.
þ Dependability : When the decision to outsource occurs, companies essentially stop learning about newer technologies, and all the advantages gained by investment made in technology development and adaptation is sometimes wasted. In the long run, the company also finds that there is a lack of informed buyers in the Company as to tomorrow's technologies. IT outsourcing sometimes does create a dent on the organization's natural learning process.
þ unrealistic expectations : Some companies even regard outsourcing as a necessary evil as they have observed that IT outsourcing affects the innovative capacity of the organization. Companies have often been disappointed when they expected the vendors to be innovative, while still asking them to focus on providing the lowest cost alternative. This leads to unrealistic expectations. Innovation, to a large extent, requires flexibility, resources and certain competency levels that can sometimes be fostered only in-house. While there are tremendous risks associated with outsourcing, the benefits derived from outsourcing the right way are manifold. The growth of IT outsourcing is increasingly based on ‘selective sourcing', characterized by short-term contracts for specific activities.
India – the leading destination for outsourcing IT services
The size of the IT outsourcing market in India increased from $2.9bn in 2002 to $12.5bn in 2007, reflecting a CAGR(Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 33.9%, and is further predicted to grow to $40.9bn by 2012, at a CAGR of 21.2%.
Key market features include:
þ Transaction intensive business process outsourcing (BPO) services account for nearly 78% of the revenue mix, and knowledge driven process outsourcing (KPO) garners the remaining 22% market share. Industry experts estimate that after 2012 revenue contributed by these segments will change substantially, with the BPOs contributing nearly two thirds of total turnover, followed by the KPOs with the remaining one third share.
þ Revenue mix is essentially driven by exports to the US and Europe. Presently, exports account for nearly 85% of the total IT market in India – a trend that is also predicted to continue in future India currently accounts for a near 45.0% share of the global IT outsourcing market.
þ According to key players this is predicted to grow to nearly 55.0% by 2012 – largely due to the accelerated growth of KPO, as well as in the growth of BPO services. In addition, outsourcing is set to increase from continental Europe and the Middle East, on top of the traditional markets i.e. the US and the UK.
India Vs China - The IT Outsourcing War
"One of every four global giants outsource their software requirements to India"
McKinsey studies, infogain
In the past, there have been several speculations about China capturing the major share of Indian IT outsourcing market. But as leading market researchers probe further into the changing economies of both China and India, the studies reveals positive results for the Indian Software Industry. China has several critical problem areas to counter before it becomes a threat to the Indian IT supremacy. Even though the revenue from IT sector for China has increased, it still lags behind the Indian IT revenue. In fact, according to the reports, it is still half of India's share, which is $12.7 billion a year. The main reason that outsourcers in U.S. rely on Indian software providers is the maturity and stability of its outsourcing market and advanced telecom infrastructure. China also faces a shortage of technical English-speaking resources. Countries like Philippines, Singapore, Russia and Ukraine, recently surfaced to provide outsourcing alternatives but the political instability is a major drawback for them.
In the last decade India dominated the IT outsourcing domain. Meanwhile, China geared up aggressively to brace up its software-outsourcing Industry. The booming economy and low wages in China emerged as the strengths that could threaten the Indian IT market.
But as per reports and surveys of leading market researchers, it will take several years for China to match the quality and expertise of Indian IT services domain. The Chinese IT industry is fragmented and needs to consolidate to attract major players, worldwide. "For starters, the Chinese must consolidate their highly fragmented industry to gain the size and expertise needed to capture large international projects. Currently, there is little movement in this direction," says a McKinsey report.
India still continues to evolve as the leading player in IT arena. The factors that have led to the accelerated growth are the support from Indian Government to open policies, excellent IT education system, English speaking, flexible regulations, investor friendly reforms, knowledgeable talent pool of IT professionals and managers.
The future of outsourcing : India is the world 's favorite outsourcing destination
Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) is the biggest revenue grosser in India as KPO companies move up the value chain in their service offerings which includes:
1. Research and Development
þ Product Innovation - Companies are going beyond basic research to invest in innovation and new product development. Companies that have invested in R&D in India are Cisco Systems, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Google General Motors Corp. and Boeing Co among others.
þ Co-development- In pharmaceuticals, India has the opportunity of co-development and ownership of new patented drugs through drug research, clinical trials and manufacturing. Indian pharma major Ranbaxy has an agreement with MNC GlaxoSmithKline to commercialize compounds they develop together.
2. Legal Outsourcing :
India 's large pool of qualified English-speaking lawyers with experience in the British legal system can offer paralegal support, legal support and patent services. A few Indian companies affiliated with American law firms are now able capture a tiny piece of the American market. They are now doing legal research at very high rates by Indian standards but yet 50% below typical American rates.
3. Engineering Outsourcing :
India can provide high-quality engineering services in the fields of:
- Mechanical & Electronic engineering - analysis and design , embedded software
- Plant Design, Process Engineering
- Plant Automation Services
- Enterprise Asset Management and OEM solutions
4. Remote Infrastructure Management Services :
India can offer management services for IT infrastructure, applications operations, IT security and maintenance. This sector presents great potential through large-value multi-year contracts
5. Accounting Services :
We are in the initial stage where payroll processing and some accounting is being done for large American companies. This trend will continue and soon a full range of accounting and tax services will be provided by Indian companies.
6. Outsourcing opportunities for India exist in other fields like Financial Research, content development, medical writing: animation, film, publishing, web services; Human Resource outsourcing: recruitment, training, Education, Nanotechnology and many others.
About the Author
Lecturer, MBA, Orchid college of Eng. and Tech., Solapur, Maharashtra, India
97 Subaru Legacy Outback Oxygen sensor check engine light keeps coming back on after i replace it NE1 know Y?
The code that keeps showing up is for bank 1 sensor 2, which is the oxygen sensor located in front of the Cat. I replaced the sensor first with a universal bosch sensor and the light still came up, then I put an OEM bosch in thinking faulty/weak connection from the universal and the check engine light still comes back after I erase it and drive around for a bit. Comes back almost instantly. Anyone have any ideas?
Okay so after reading some of the responses I used the multi tester on the engine side of the Oxygen sensor plug. It has two positives and one negative connection. I tested both positives to the negative and found that one of the positives had no pulse. The other read 10 ohms. This is with the cars ignition on engine off. Im not sure but im thinking this is where the problem lies. Anyone know if this could be the problem?
Get your Catalytic converters checked.
Dot Hill Reports First Quarter 2010 Results
LONGMONT, Colo., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.
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