Cost, quality of work, availability of skills, language, infrastructure, and a couple of decades of experience all provide India a competitive advantage over other locals. As a result, India dominates the market with as much as a 70 percent share of many off-shored information technology and information technology enabled services. Organizations from corporate giants, such as, American Express, Dell Computer, Delta, GE, and Lufthansa to start-ups in areas as diverse as tax preparation, receivables and payables, financial research, and radiology services have selected India as the cornerstone location of their global delivery infrastructure.

The 2004 India Outsourcing Summit, scheduled on October 13-14, 2004 at The Leela Palace, Bangalore, is India's premier executive event on the ever-changing topic of strategic outsourcing.

The Summit aims to provides a unique opportunity to understand and begin development of its global outsourcing programs, especially from out of India - one of the largest, cost effective and reputed global back offices. It will set the tone to create business-matching forums between the outsourcee companies on one hand and customer focused Indian companies on the other. One will be able to take home rewarding insights and guidance needed to craft and execute their organization's unique approach to outsourcing.

The Summit is set to answer the questions:

• How to use outsourcing to meet today's business challenges
• How to make the right sourcing decision - the first time
• How to achieve operational excellence within and across outsourcing relationships
• How to communicate outsourcing to your employees, customers and the public
• How to build new revenue streams through outsourcing
• How to use outsourcing to reduce corporate risk
• How to successfully outsource offshore
• How to craft value-creating outsourcing contracts
• How to recover a troubled outsourcing relationship
• How to enhance your career as an outsourcing professional

The Summit is produced by Michael F. Corbett, one of the world's best-known experts in the field. Since 1998 The Outsourcing World Summit Conference Series has been attended by thousands of business and government leaders from around the world.