Brown-wilson Group’s “2009: The Year Of Outsourcing Dangerously.”

[rafval]

May be of interest and doesnt seem to have been mentioned -

Risk centers

These rankings are based on mean scores in 10 areas of risk as reported by The Brown-Wilson Group’s “2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously.”

* 1. Bogota, Colombia

* 2. Bangkok, Thailand

* 3. Johannesburg, South Africa

* 4. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

* 5. Kingston, Jamaica

* 6. Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon, India

* 7. Manila/Cebu/Makita, Philippines

* 8. Rio de Janeiro

* 9. Mumbai, India

* 10. Jerusalem

The Worst Three Cities for …

Unsecured or unprotected networks and infrastructure:

* 1. Bogota, Colombia

* 2. Bangkok, Thailand

* 3. Kingston, Jamaica

Unstable currency:

* 1. Bangkok, Thailand

* 2. Bogota, Colombia

* 3. Johannesburg, South Africa

Personal crime rate/police-to-citizen ratio:

* 1. Bangkok, Thailand

* 2. Johannesburg, South Africa

* 3. Rio de Janeiro

Legal system immaturity:

* 1. Bangkok, Thailand

* 2. Bogota, Colombia

* 3. Kingston, Jamaica

Weather/climate threats:

* 1. Kingston, Jamaica

* 2. Manila/Cebu/ Makati, Philippines

* 3. Bangkok, Thailand

[chiangmaibruce]

thanks for posting this - always interested to hear about new reports

i found this link for the report :

http://theblackbookofoutsourcing.com/docs/...dangerously.pdf

You might also be interested in this report:

www.asiarisk.com/library6.pdf

[jumnien]

Pretty comical, laughed more than a few times while reading through it. Thanks for the link.

It really is crazy the stuff that gets printed on the internet these days!