As mentioned on this blog the other day, do not expect the trend for offshoring to slow - in fact expect the amount of countries involved in external service provision to increase.

I met Duncan Aitchison, partner at outsourcing advisor TPI, yesterday who told me that multisourcing - and offshoring in particular - remain the dominant sourcing fashions.

"I get calls from all over the world," he says. "Everyone across the world is looking at offshoring."

And from his recent dealings, Aitchison lists a collection of countries that have been been keen to join the offshoring bandwagon: Argentina, Uruguay, Philippines, Russia, Ghana, South Africa and Mauritius.

Despite such interest, he says India stills wins on every offshoring dimension – probably because of the high level of English skills.

So far this year, India-based service providers have won more than 24 per cent of all the deals on which TPI has advised, up from an average of 13 per cent during the previous four years.