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The one thing that has always baffled me about the European Union, is how they try and unite a hodge-podge of countries which despise each other, when all they really want to do is carry on doing things their<\/em> way and never take orders from anyone. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

They clearly have three goals within the EU:<\/p>\n

1. To make pots of money from that\u00a0expensive\u00a0Euro (what a great excuse to raise the price of a coffee from 50 cents to $10);<\/p>\n

2. To have a powerless European governance system and keep things exactly as they have always been<\/em> at the local level;<\/p>\n

3. To beat the Americans at golf \u00a0every two years (even though the Irish don’t need any continental help in that regard).<\/p>\n

And when you look at the individual outsourcing intentions of\u00a0continental\u00a0Europeans versus the other regions, from our new study<\/a>\u00a0that we just conducted with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, exactly<\/em> the same philosophy seems to apply:<\/p>\n

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So what’s really<\/em> driving outsourcing decision-making across the world?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

United States:<\/strong>\u00a0Let’s save some money, but also use this as an opportunity to globalize operations, transform processes and gain access to\u00a0compliance\u00a0standards and business process acumen that we – let’s face it – simply don’t have. \u00a0Let’s take a realistic view of what we can get from the experience: use it as an\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to manage our ropy processes more effectively, but let’s not go overboard with the “forcing change” stuff, or having any fancy new technology thrown at us – as there’s never such a thing as a free lunch, folks.<\/p>\n

Britain:<\/strong>\u00a0Please can we shed the costs and change the bloody processes – but our existing bunch are going to be smart enough to\u00a0figure\u00a0it out – and we certainly don’t need to be told what to do – especially by our former colonies. \u00a0We used to run the world, you know…<\/p>\n

Continental Europe:<\/strong>\u00a0Ah… mes amis! \u00a0Let’s rip out ze costs, but for ‘eaven’s sake, don’t make any changes to our mother-ship. \u00a0By all means, sack all the expensive foreign staff in the vorldvide offices and sheeft ze vork to India or Les Philippines, but – we repeat – don’t CHANGE anything!<\/p>\n

Asia:<\/strong> You mean we can offload all our terrible back office stuff and have you lot run it for us cheaper and<\/em> better? Take it now – ALL of it!<\/p>\n

So there you have it: HfS sums up world politics and culture in a single chart and blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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