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		<title>Bangalore is “The Silicon Valley of India”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005 it was actually decided by the state government that Bangalore should change name back to the original Bengaluru. However the federal government is currently reluctant to giving the permission. Internationally Bangalore is still more used than Bengaluru why it will be used in this post.
Bangalore is the capital in the state of Karnataka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India is the best outsourcing country in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/india-is-the-best-outsourcing-country-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple Google search for “biggest outsourcing countries” shows that India indeed is a very attractive country to outsource to. The first four hits (1, 2, 3, 4) all have rankings where India is in the top. Out of the four India is the top outsourcing country in three of them and in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing helps businesses focus on their comparative advantages</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/outsourcing-helps-businesses-focus-on-their-comparative-advantages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the most recent decades big countries such as China and India have opened up their economies. From an economical perspective this was a good idea because it opened up for trading with foreign countries. Free trade is an area where there is more or less consensus between economists that it is good.
The Scottish economist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing throughout history</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/outsourcing-throughout-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since there is no official definition it can be argued that outsourcing began already with the rise of small communities millennia ago. The first kind of outsourcing was born when humans came up with the idea of organizing small villages and they started understanding the benefits of the division of labor. This type of outsourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging trends in the outsourcing industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I previously made a blog post about the structure of the outsourcing industry. Here I wrote it can be argued that there are four fundamental types of outsourcing (ITO, Software R&#38;D, KPO, and BPO). However as I also wrote there exist other types of outsourcing and some of them are growing rapidly. I will describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The structure of the outsourcing industry</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/the-structure-of-the-outsourcing-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often delegating work to a third party is just called “outsourcing”. However there exist many different kinds of outsourcing. It can be discussed how many different kinds and what they are. However many would say that there are four fundamental types. These are ITO, Software R&#38;D, KPO, and BPO. Below there is a short description [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling back in time to a powerful empire</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/travelling-back-in-time-to-a-powerful-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in a previous blog post (“Emil Says”) there are gems hidden everywhere in India. From Bangalore it is easy to catch a bus and reach these destinations. Since I am working and not studying here I have my weekends off. It is not like being a student where you will always have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting at the 5th best business school in India!</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/recruiting-at-the-5th-best-business-school-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is the 5th best business school in India and we were very happy to get the opportunity to recruit one of these ambitious young people. According to one of the students they each year have 500,000 applicants for just 100 spots. This proves that this certainly is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Emil says&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/emil-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/?p=1418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to get well integrated into a new culture it is always a good idea to do what the locals do. However it is an even better idea listening to what I have to say. So pay attention! “Emil says”:
1. When a camel walks by your house, ride it!
Only in India a camel would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of a Prank</title>
		<link>http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/the-talk-of-a-prank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madhav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthdays!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Playing pranks on people whatever the situation maybe is always awesome fun, but birthday pranks tend to be a lot more special and serious at Outsmart360 (I ain’t joking)! After hours of deliberation and intense thinking we decided to prank Ganesh and Shabeen together.
So this is how it all started. Ganesh recently held a seminar [...]]]></description>
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