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RSI CEO Monty Hamilton to participate in Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion in Washington, DC Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Monty Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing Inc., (RSI) has been invited by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to participate in a round-table discussion on “Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Economically Disadvantaged, Rural and Under-Served Areas.” The round-table discussion will be held Thursday, Jan. 27, in Washington, DC. Read More >

WJBF News Video: RSI to bring 100 jobs to Augusta Friday, December 03, 2010 If you’re looking for an IT job, you may be in luck. Rural Sourcing Inc. has picked Augusta to set up shop. Read More >

Rural Sourcing, Inc. Announces Augusta Operation Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Governor Sonny Perdue announced today Rural Sourcing, Inc. (RSI), an Atlanta-based provider of internet technology domestic sourcing, is opening a development center in Augusta in Richmond County. The company plans to create 100 direct jobs in the fields of computer and software engineering and programming. "Georgia’s highly-skilled pipeline of talent for high tech companies will certainly be an asset to the Rural Sourcing Augusta development center," said Governor Perdue. "The company’s expansion will boost the local economy and provide job opportunities for Augusta-area residents." Read More >

Outsourcing To Small Town USA Friday, July 09, 2010 Rural Sourcing CEO Monty Hamilton discusses outsourcing to small towns in the United States, with CNBC. Read More >

RSI Announces Expansion of Development Center Wednesday, June 23, 2010 RSI, the leader in domestic IT sourcing, a cost-effective alternative to the offshore model for technology development and the ongoing support and maintenance for critical business applications, announced today its expansion to a new office location in downtown Jonesboro. Read More >

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Selects RSI for Software Development and Support Monday, November 16, 2009 Rural Sourcing, Inc. (RSI) today announced that it has signed an agreement to work with Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS) and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, to support Trillium Software's accelerated pace of development for its data quality software solutions. Read More >

Clarus and Rural Sourcing, Inc. team to create new technology jobs in rural America. Monday, April 06, 2009 After evaluating all options including offshore alternatives, Clarus Information chose Rural Sourcing, Inc. due to its ability to quickly deliver... Read More >

Industry Veteran Monty Hamilton Selected as CEO of Rural Sourcing Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Rural Sourcing Inc. (RSI) announced that it has selected industry veteran Monty Hamilton to take over as CEO. Hamilton was most recently.... Read More >

Rural Sourcing and Clarkston Form Domestic Sourcing Partnership Tuesday, June 05, 2007 Rural Sourcing, Inc. announces a partnership with Clarkston Consulting that will provide highly skilled software developers using their proprietary Domestic Sourcing staffing model... Read More >

News Events

Lessons Learned from the 2011 Momentum Geography Report Monday, January 09, 2012 Every region of the world experienced significant outsourcing developments in 2011. The TPI Momentum 2011 Market Trends and Insights Geography Report found that global developments are increasingly connected. Read More >

IAOP Releases Top Outsourcing Trends to Watch for in 2012 Tuesday, January 03, 2012 The New Year will bring new business realities, delivery models, destinations and technologies to the outsourcing industry, according to the fifth annual trend predictions released today by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). Read More >

Outsource Institute Road Show - New York City 2011 Thursday, December 15, 2011 The Outsourcing Institute’s Fall 2011 Road Show Series will gather the smartest buyers, providers and consultants in the outsourcing space to discuss today’s most compelling issues. Discover the latest innovations in outsourcing. Read More >

How RSI Benefits Communities Friday, September 16, 2011 “There is absolutely nothing negative about what you do.” David Markiewicz, reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution explained when interviewing Monty Hamilton, CEO of RSI. Read More >

Joplin Tornado Weighs Heavy on Clinton's Mind Thursday, June 30, 2011 Former President Bill Clinton on how his global initiative is helping residents. Read More >

Rural Sourcing Takes Root In Ga Tuesday, March 08, 2011 Some jobs that have been outsourced overseas are returning to U.S. shores. A new trend known as ‘rural sourcing’ is beginning to take root - including in Georgia. Read More >

Rural outsourcing on the rise in the U.S. Monday, March 07, 2011 For years, U.S. companies have been shipping development work and other IT tasks offshore to take advantage of low labor costs. Now a growing number of organizations are tapping lower costs closer to home, by hiring outsourcing providers with operations in rural areas of the U.S. Read More >

Rural Sourcing: A Trend to Watch? Thursday, March 03, 2011 Managers thinking of establishing virtual teams may have visions of the best and brightest in New York, San Francisco and Shanghai dancing in their heads. The untapped workers of rural places and small cities like Kanab, Utah or Augusta, Ga. probably feature less often. Now the proponents of a still embryonic but expanding trend known as “rural sourcing” are trying to change that. Read More >

AJC News: RSI offers ways to keep jobs at home Friday, February 11, 2011 The good-paying information technology job Jason Holmes started in January could have gone to someone else, someplace else -- most likely India or another overseas country. Read More >

Rural Outsourcing Trend Harvests Tech Talent Back Home Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Corn isn't the only thing they're growing in rural America. There's also an abundance of IT talent waiting to be harvested. Increasingly, companies large and small are finding they don’t have to go offshore to find IT employees at reasonable costs. Rural sourcing lets them hire the talent they need in their own backyards. Read More >

IT services: The new allure of onshore locales Monday, September 27, 2010 Despite the steady march of IT services to offshore centers from India to Russia over the past 15 years, many IT tasks aren’t easily moved. Financial regulations, for instance, often demand that data such as bank records be processed in home markets. Privacy rules impose similar restrictions on health care data, while security guidelines require defense contractors to handle data analysis within national markets. Read More >

Rural Outsourcing: Why It’s Better in Des Moines Wednesday, September 01, 2010 When it comes to total cost of ownership, outsourcing stateside to Iowa or Arkansas trumps offshoring for some CIOs. Read More >

Forget India, outsource to Arkansas Thursday, July 08, 2010 (CNNMoney.com) -- Looking for skilled, low-cost labor? Forget about India and China. How about Jonesboro, Ark.? As the national unemployment rate hovers near 10%, some companies are starting to eye job-hungry areas of the country as prime candidates for the kind of outsourced work that once would have gone overseas. Read More >

The New Polymath Thursday, June 24, 2010 RSI has been profiled in Vinnie Mirchandani's new book, The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations. This book categorizes eleven "building blocks" for the new Polymath to leverage its R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E framework, including next-generation analytics, cloud computing, sustainability, and social networks. The author examines over a hundred innovators and demonstrates how they use these building blocks to solve both their individual day-to-day issues and the "Grand Challenges" the world faces. Brimming with examples from a variety of industries, countries, and business processes, the book will inspire you to groom your own New Polymath tools, processes, and ecosystem of innovation ideas. Read More >

RSI CEO Featured on Globalization Today Magazine Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Rural Sourcing CEO Monty P. Hamilton appears on the cover and page 22 of "Globalization Today Magazine" as part of the "If You Had A Magic Wand What Would You Change About Outsourcing?" feature. Read More >

2010 Outsourcing World Summit Thursday, February 04, 2010 Outsourcing means jobs go overseas, right? Not always. At this Orlando summit, Monty Hamilton, CEO of Atlanta-based Rural Sourcing, will explain how U.S. firms can save money by moving work to the non-metro areas... Read More >

Monty P. Hamilton, CEO at Rural Sourcing to present at 2010 Outsourcing World Summit Thursday, January 07, 2010 The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) in association with FORTUNE® Custom Projects presents the 13th edition of its world-renowned conference series. Read More >

CFO Magazine: The New Calculus of Offshoring Wednesday, October 21, 2009 The discussion today to offshore is more complicated than ever. While looking for ways to cut costs and increase savings remains a constant struggle, U.S. firms are now beginning to see an increase of options available to them in order to meet their organizational needs and are finding creative ways to work within business models that demand flexibility. Rural Sourcing, Inc., an innovative alternative to offshore strategies, is highlighted in the attached CFO article as an example of the inputs to the new equation of outsourcing. Read More >

Rural Outsourcing Sparks Interest Monday, August 17, 2009 Rural Sourcing and other domestic outsourcing businesses are profiled in this Financial Wire commentary on the rise of rural outsourcing. Read More >

Onshore Outsourcing Helps Venture Capitalists Strengthen Investments Friday, June 26, 2009 After a venture capital (VC) firm invests in a startup or expansion company, its commitment to that company doesn't end; in fact, it's just beginning. Read More >

India on the Outs? Monday, June 08, 2009 The global downturn, coupled with political concerns in the U.S. about domestic job losses, has caused companies to reconsider outsourcing to the subcontinent... Read More >

Is America Ready to Call Back Outsourced Jobs From India for "Rural Sourcing"? Wednesday, May 27, 2009 I'm from a small town of 2,000 people in the middle of nowhere in Northeast Missouri. It's one hour to the nearest McDonalds and there's not a stoplight in... Read More >

RSI featured in Northeast Arkansas Business Today Monday, January 19, 2009 A Jonesboro based firm is helping information technology executives meet the challenge of finding software development... Read More >