{"id":1563,"date":"2011-01-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/latam_011811\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:01:00","slug":"latam_011811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/latam_011811\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America: The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When our COO Esteban Herrera<\/a><\/strong> joined us last year, we definitely got more than we bargained for\u2026 try a fluent Spanish and Portuguese speaker with a deep working knowledge \u00a0and affinity of the assortment of cultures south of the border. <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Yes, there’s more to Esteban than merely a sourcing consultant sporting a painful grin after 14 consecutive hours of negotiations.\u00a0So who better to examine Latin America, the Gigante Durmiendo<\/em> of outsourcing. He’s written a great RAPIDInsight<\/a> on the promise (and realities) of Latin America as a sourcing destinations, so let’s hand you over to Esteban to give you the 411…<\/p>\n

Latin America: The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been encouraged to see many providers paying more than lip service to Latin America as a region for growth and business opportunity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sourcing to LatAm: reaching new heights?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Previously the un-loved stepchild of the outsourcing geographies, Latin America does hold promise for those who approach it the right way\u2014and there is more than one right way to approach it.<\/p>\n

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I have a personal soft spot for the region, since I got my start in offshoring managing service delivery from Brazil and Mexico before the word \u201coffshoring\u201d came to mean what it does today. I had a great time personally, but still to this day I have yet to find a more creative technical team than the one I led in Brazil, or a harder-working team than the one I was privileged to lead in Mexico. I could tell great stories about the quality of work I managed in Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica as well.<\/p>\n

But you no longer have to take my word for it.<\/p>\n

There are hundreds of multi-nationals and service providers delivering back office support from Latin America. A good friend who runs F&A BPO for a provider recently confessed that they had lost a number of deals because they could not adequately support their global clients\u2019 Latin American needs.<\/p>\n

I doubt the region can catch up to the Asian powerhouses in scale, but there are a number of value creating approaches to Latin American outsourcing\/near-shoring that are proving successful. You can read about them, as well as the region\u2019s advantages and challenges in our latest RAPIDInsight: Latin America: The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?<\/p>\n

Read the HfS RAPIDInsight Latin America–The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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