1. This will be the year for artificial intelligence.For the manufacturing and logistics section, Shawn C. Helms, a partner at K&L Gates, stated increasingly more companies will embrace robot-like technologies which are forecasted to automate man-powered processes this year. He also kept in mind that robots will soon go up the value chain over time. Jonathan Crane, IPsoft’s primary commercial officer, on the other hand, questioned the durability of this pattern should it persist. He noted that this could be a cause for the downfall of labor arbitrage all over the world.Another industry expert specified that this could be a solution to the increasing labor costs as CIOs are trying to find alternative ways to minimize and handle operating expenses without having to automate everything and rule out manual processes.2. Rise of hybrid sourcing An executive forecasted that in 2014, offshore contracting out as a company model will lose its lustre as the hybrid model where offshoring
and insourcing will be more utilized in operations. However, one factor that is anticipated to stay in the new design prevails management. It is expected that companies will discover the very best mix that will fit the requirements of their organisation, that includes discovering the best skill for the job and cost efficiency for IT services.3. Insourcing will likewise end up being more popular.Stan Lepeak, international research study director at KPMG, stated 20 to 30 percent of the outsourced IT procedures will be restored in-house as more companies feel the need to have more operational control on the services. IT services management structures are likewise growing which is expected to fuel the movement of outsourced procedure back internal.4. Service combination will be insourced as well.After the experimentation duration where clients transferred multi-sourcing management capabilities to service providers, it is forecasted that service integration will be taken in back house. It was found that most outsourced designs fail to provide positive results and are frequently causes of extra difficulties for executives
such as loss of control and presence in their outsourced operations.5. Doubt in the cloud Cloud structures are anticipated to end up being more in-depth as clients wish to manage IT services better, especially now that they are waiting for clearer reports on how their financial investments are used. They will be doing this until they have gathered enough information to use as benchmark. Service companies will be changing
to the modifications inthe demands of the market.6. Partnership is type in multisourced operations.Since most organizations that utilize multisourcing developed “cooperation agreements “for their companies in 2013, it will be more utilized in 2014 as increasingly more companies are embracing the multi-sourced business design.7. Pricing designs for IT offers will be less constricting.Financial dedications will be more versatile this year as IT contracting out customers are starting to grow and have actually gained

understanding on how to make deals according to their business‘s choices. Service providers will start to offer services and products at a lower cost range and packages such as annuity memberships to maintain clients without imposing long-term commitments.8. India to take over infrastructure offers India
is anticipated to get traction in infrastructure deals as professionals expect them to move from application development and business procedure outsourcing to a destination for infrastructure advancement.9. Offers will be scaled up or downsized.Large outsourcing offers are anticipated to be broken down into smaller, multi-sourced ones and little offers are expected to be augmented to midsize as clients wish to expand operations with their present suppliers.