I just had an assignment: 400 words on the next phase of implementation of recommendations on a recent compensation review: Outsourcing Payroll Services. I love these spot tests: half an hour to get the basics of an organizational initiative, and shift into ‘achieve buy-in’ before the bell goes. I’m hoping to have pulled off a solid B (which would be good, I think.)

Just then, what comes across my desk, but the latest newsletter from Karvy. Heard of them? India’s largest integrated financial services provider, reads the banner. Yes: for real.   This is a most enlightening tome. 

I'd like to suggest you take a look for yourselves.  Sections from management concerns – the how and the why of outsourcing. Then the staff issues (always good to know when getting involved for the first time) are featured. Next, they post a case study.  I liked the tourist blurb on the marble Jain temples.

I wish that I’d had read this before the test, but I still think I did ok. Check out the Karvy Global Services Review at: http://www.karvyglobal.com/newsLetter/Nov2006/index.