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And This Year's National Champs Are...
in The Universities Weblog, on September 14, 2008
Okay, I don't know who the national champs will be yet. But I know who they won't be: the Ohio State Buckeyes.
If Ohio State had played a halfway competitive game and lost at USC, it might be possible to pretend that they still had a change. Now all year long we're going to hear about ...
GM staves off bankruptcy
in Sox First, on July 16, 2008
... raise the cash is by cutting thousands of jobs through retirements, early retirements, buyouts and attrition (no sackings, yet). Let's be quite clear: this may be the last roll of the dice for w...
Winners and Losers
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 23, 2008
...imes, when given half a chance, these college graduates jump to higher level work - leading to high attrition and service instability. In cities with developing infrastructure for outsourcing, this ma...
An interesting approach to p2p at school...
in P2P File Sharing, on May 20, 2008
...ch consists of questions about what is lawful and what is not.
It's definitely an intersting apporach , and with punishments for DMCA notices involving 2 weeks no internet, and 28 days communi...
Employee Attrition...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 10, 2008
...Is attrition a bad thing?
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We have talked about it many times; there is some attrition that is good. Wil Schroter in his most recent blog entry points out that you need to ha...
The Decline and Fall of Recreational Golf - Part Two
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 1, 2008
My thanks to Geoff Shackelford's fine blog for this post. It's in response to the New York Times article describing a general falling trend in the numbers of Americans playing golf.
It seems Greg Nathan, the vice-president of the National Golf Foundation took issue with what he...
Good News for Doctoral Candidates: Finishing the Degree Becomes More Likely
in The Universities Weblog, on December 29, 2007
... Inside Higher Ed reported recently that attrition rate for students in Ph.D. programs seem to be going down. Except in the humanities, where getting that doctorate is still as hard as ever.
The Cou...
The Outsourcing Return
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 22, 2007
...ina fatigue". This was described as:
"Businesses which are seeking relief from the staff attrition and rising salaries that have become the norm in Asia and looking to Latin America and les...
Thoughts for the Outsourcing Future
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 28, 2007
...ongside growth is the change in outsourcing. As India faces the challenges of higher labor cost and attrition rate, the country is now developing different business strategies which would keep them on...
A Few Lessons on Price War
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on September 7, 2007
...e learn about this seemingly an endless debacle?
1st Lesson: There is NO winner in this game of attrition. Of course, that's on the perspective of mobile companies. Conversely, it is a major v...
Infosys on the changing "global business environment"
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2007
...diverse and complex, from increasing headcount thousands of miles from home, to dealing with higher attrition rates in China, to calculating just how much growth can be achieved internally versus thro...
India Faces New Outsourcing Threat
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 12, 2007
...d in the Indian outsourcing scene. Some of these disadvantages includes the following:
-high attrition rates
-poor infrastructure
-rising wages
-appreciation of the Indian rupee
These factors ...
Cognizant Q2 - Earnings Call
in The CIO Weblog, on August 5, 2007
... Excerpts from Cognizants Q2 Results:
Attrition - Employee attrition increased slightly to 17%, which is consistent with seasonal trends and attrition for the second quarter. This increase was ...
Emergence of the Midtier Indian IT Services players
in The CIO Weblog, on July 27, 2007
...ansition from the client to the provider environment.
Investment in people. US Technology's attrition rate is less than 10%, far below the industry average of around 20%.
"Quality ver...
Summary of Facts from some Indian IT Services Companies
in The CIO Weblog, on July 26, 2007
...illion USD bucket
Hexaware:
The technical manpower comprised 89.7% of the total workforce
Attrition rate stood at 16.8%
The number of clients registering $1m+ in revenues has registered a ...
Captive Centers - 20% Additional Savings
in The CIO Weblog, on July 25, 2007
...veral critical challenges facing today's captives, especially those in India: 1. While employee attrition is endemic to the industry as a whole, captives are at a disadvantage as they must pay sig...
Industry Talent Retention
in The CIO Weblog, on July 18, 2007
...ies and after revenue and the impact of the strong rupee the other stat thats of interest to all is attrition.
On this topic i came across a set of slides as a part of the teleconference at Forreste...
TCS Some Thoughts?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 15, 2007
... less the same and we have worked out this kind of a detailed plan to meet that impact.
Employee attrition is another major problem faced by most Indian IT companies. What steps is TCS taking to re...
Infosys - Q1 Results - Fast Facts
in The CIO Weblog, on July 12, 2007
...from around 55%. And I think we had about 1,800 people hired in the lateral pool this quarter.
attrition rates have stabilized. Second quarter of last year we had 2,040 people leave us in servi...
McAfee：2007年度十大安全威胁名单
in Wangtam, on June 27, 2007
近日，McAfee再次 调查并发布 了2007年度十大安全威胁预测。据McAfee Avert Labs 调查显示：密码窃取网络钓鱼网站等威胁如预期一样盛行。然而，遥控式傀儡程序等其它威胁却出乎意料地有所减少。
McAfee Avert Labs 和产品开发部高级副总裁 Jeff Green 表示："正值我们步入年中之际，我们有必要检查我们年初对未来预测的走向如何。正如预测中的一样，有组织的专业罪犯网络犯罪行为继续肆虐。然而，我们非常惊讶地发现，移动恶意软件和图片式垃圾邮件在近期有所减少。"
McAfee Avert Labs 预测的 2007 年度十大安全威胁...
BPO Salaries: Going Up
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 22, 2007
...d also a choice of their desired position. On the other hand, BPO companies could experience a high attrition rate because of their employees resigning for better opportunities. This is the reason why...
High Cost Equates to Low Outsourcing Growth
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 28, 2007
...s show this could not happen because of the continuous rise in expenses.
In this news piece , the attrition rate in India was described thus indicating that it could lead to the downsizing of the ou...
SAP's SME Portifolio
in The CIO Weblog, on May 15, 2007
Here is a slide with the SME Portfolio:
SAP Business One - 10 users
SAP A1S - Around 50 Users
SAP All-in-one - Around 100 users
(i might be a little off in terms of the number of users, but its there about)
Prashanth Rai
Top Destination
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 9, 2007
... destination in outsourcing. Some of these reasons mentioned were:
-stronger technical skills
-low attrition rates
-less cultural difference
Though Russia has indeed these advantages, they should al...
Cognizant Q1 Earnings Call Excerpts
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2007
...ition of approximately 4,600 employees around the world.During the quarter, our annualized employee attrition declined to 15% from 17% in Q4.
As we look forward to the rest of 2007 based on our str...
TCS and the headcount....
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2007
...cations are that TCS will maintain this ratio even after its new hires of over 30,000, this fiscal. Attrition at the country's leading software services exporter is at 11%, up from its norm...
Satyam Results - Excerpts
in The CIO Weblog, on April 25, 2007
...s call for the (gross) addition of 14-15K associates in fiscal 2008, unchanged from the prior year. Attrition, which includes a 3-5% involuntary component, improved to 15.7% from 17.6% in 3Q07 and 19....
Convergys Home Based Customer Service Employment Success
in Home Based Business, on April 25, 2007
...an resources manager in Ogden, said employees love the flexibility.
"We've noticed lower attrition on that program," she said.
Smith estimates that there are about 80 employees in th...
Project Manager : Organize your life
in Tech Intelligence, on March 12, 2007
...o be really strict as I am not too organized by nature. So when the heat is on and several projects apporach me and start eating my resources, I need to put a little Zen in my office to get everything...
Private Clubs: An Endangered Species?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 16, 2007
...ese days, there are more than just economic considerations for private clubs to worry about.
"Attrition is a big factor for a lot of private clubs", Rob says, "30-somethings don't ...
Russian ITO Market to Grow by 40% or 50% in 2007: neoIT
in The CIO Weblog, on February 5, 2007
...s that despite the ongoing debate about Tier 1 versus Tier 2 cities and concerns of wage inflation, attrition and infrastructure issues, Indian Tier 1 cities (NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mu...
salesforce.com will be acquired in 2007 - IDC
in The CIO Weblog, on February 3, 2007
IDC blog has a post highlighting one of their predictions for 2007 . Salesforce.com will be acquired in 2007. We believe the growing importance of online delivery of software and business services will make salesforce.com (and particularly its AppExchange hub) a very tempting target to bot...
SaaS up ..up and away!!!
in The CIO Weblog, on January 30, 2007
Another survey confirming the growth of SaaS, a new survey by Cutters Consortium confirms that the SaaS movement is in full throttle . Customer interest and adoption of this new on-demand model is real and continuing to grow at a strong pace.
"This growth is being fueled by shifting cu...
Should OR Shouldn't I Upgrade ....Enterprise App's - Forrester
in The CIO Weblog, on January 22, 2007
...Enterprise application vendors face increased resistance to upgrades, which will result in gradual attrition to their customer bases . As customers fall further and further behind the upgrade path,it...
Involuntary Attrition up !! - Infosys
in The CIO Weblog, on January 12, 2007
...i found an interesting fact from yesterdays Infosys call, where they had indicated that Involuntary attrition is up from 0.9% to 1.3% , though the explanation provided was that there are very high sta...
ADM Outsourcing - Go / No Go
in The CIO Weblog, on December 25, 2006
One of the most common outsourced element is ADM, this is usually the first step in the outsourcing journey of most companies.Recently came across a report by Aberdeen Group, titled "Does Outsourcing Application Development, Maintenance Pay Off?".
The report re-iterates the popularity...
Its not about cost , Its about Intellectual Arbitrage - CTS
in The CIO Weblog, on December 23, 2006
Continuing on the topic of cost arbitrage, I was reminded of an article in Strategy and business which was an interview with Fransico D'Souza, COO, CTS . During the interview Mr.D'Souza talks about the change is focus from Cost Arbitrage to Intellectual Arbitrage.
Excerpt from the...
Zoho.....Has a winner
in The CIO Weblog, on November 30, 2006
Today i got a mail from Arvind of Zoho...On an update they made, I strongly beleive that all the 3 updates are WINNERS, and will increase my usage by leaps and bounds...and definitely will increase adoption also significantly 1 & 3 will surely have immediate results...But i can assure you ...
IBM an ERP Company - Redmonk
in The CIO Weblog, on November 30, 2006
James from Red monk is at the IBM annual analyst conference and has post up on Steve mill 's (Group GM IBM Software) presentation check it out .
Below is an excerpt that i found interesting:
"We sell an extraordinary amount of software into Oracle, Retek, Peoplesoft accounts....
QAD & Infor VS Oracle & SAP
in The CIO Weblog, on November 29, 2006
Firms seeking to consolidate or replace enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems often look to SAP or Oracle, but two somewhat lesser known ERP vendors -- Infor Global Solutions and QAD Inc . -- are threatening to take a bigger slice of The ERP pie, a new survey by Boston, Mass.-based ana...
Indian IT Services Co's Performance - AMR
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2006
...rices. Close to 30% of hires in CTS were functional / domain consultants.
Chief concerns are
- Attrition...Increased Salary costs
- Controlling other costs..using other levers - onsite/offshore r...
The Secret to Motivating Employees
in Small Business Unplugged, on August 3, 2006
...they motivate themselves."
My answer used to be relatively lengthy but I 'changed' my apporach and ever since I have changed the way I answer that question. t
The Most Important Princi...
Stanford research results: Companies that invest in supply chain security measures can expect substantial benefits that far outweigh the costs
in Supplychainer, on August 2, 2006
Companies that invest in supply chain security measures can expect substantial benefits that far outweigh the costs of the security expenditures, according to a new study by Stanford University released August 1 by The Manufacturing Institute, the research and education arm of the National Asso...
Scale Dilemma for Indian IT Services Providers
in The CIO Weblog, on June 8, 2006
... and skills.
Indian IT industry's cost advantage is fast diminishing with rising salaries and attrition.
most small software companies that are racing on the growth path, there is pressure to ...
YOU should pay ME - 9 Companies That Don't Get It
in Businesspundit, on June 6, 2006
... I wouldn't be surprised if there was a management book entitled "Ostracizification: Using Attrition To Improve Employee Performance). If your own employees won't use your product, perhap...
Cheltenham - How we did
in The Gambling Weblog, on March 17, 2006
...
Well Cheltenham 2006 is all over. War of Attrition (pictured) is the Gold Cup winner after a disappointing run by our selection Beef or Salmon. The easiest horse to back today, and of the festiva...
Nasscom - Mckinsey Report - Excerpts - 2
in The CIO Weblog, on December 19, 2005
...ving the quality of the potential and current workforce
Better matching of jobs to people so that attrition is reduced
Strengthen Local Infrastructure: India needs to deliver on both basic and...
News from the Ariba Freemarkets Merger
in TJ's Weblog, on December 2, 2005
...ite a lot of buzz in the business-to-business online world -- it hasn't been painless. Layoffs, attrition and culture clashes that are common to most unions have hit Ariba and the former FreeMarke...
Software Vendors Migration apporach to Open Source
in The CIO Weblog, on November 22, 2005
... Murgan Pal, The CTO of spike source has an entry in the Oriely Blog on an suggested apporach for Software vendors to migrate to the open source model.
Some interesting excerpts from the article ...
Another Open Source Success - SleepyCat.
in The CIO Weblog, on November 15, 2005
...well as storage leaders such as EMC and Veritas.
Sleepycat has choosen the dual licensing strategy apporach, one a no-cost open source license, like the GPL, and the other is a paid commercial licens...
Motivating Your Solid (but not spectacular) Performers
in Businesspundit, on October 13, 2005
...en overlooked." He fears that if this group continues to be neglected, he will see his current attrition rate of up to 2 percent skyrocket when the economy picks up.
Few companies actively decid...
Colleges Offer Spring Admissions to Manage Enrollments
in The Universities Weblog, on May 25, 2005
...leges' standpoint, is simple. Enrollments tend to dip in the spring, given fall graduations and attrition trends. A certain percentage of freshmen arriving for the fall semester won't return f...
Outsourcing Staff Attrition
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 18, 2005
...ions.
Ashish Sonal, country manager at Hill & Associates, commented on worker turnover: "Attrition not only pushes up costs incurred on the training of employees but also affects productivi...
TCS is India's Outsourcing King
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 29, 2004
... the juicy details include ....
... while TCS scores on profit growth, revenues per employee and attrition rate parameters, Infosys has an upper hand on factors like sales growth and operating marg...
Women Run Small Businesses Better
in Businesspundit, on September 9, 2003
...asis on philanthropy and community issues, and that they pay more attention to succession planning. Attrition rates among family members are 40% lower than at male-owned family firms. Female ow...
outsourcing to India
in TJ's Weblog, on August 29, 2003
...h. Visa regulations and political interferences will probably not last long.
More difficult are the attrition rates: "Gartner, a consultancy, believes this has reached around 40% a year in call-c...
outsourcing to India - deeper analysis
in TJ's Weblog, on July 15, 2003
...lly not good :-)
Note: The last three points are not directly mentioned in the article! Well an attrition rate of 40% per year and absenteeism of 5-8% are not really surprising. Although nobody sa...
SAP to go slow on hiring!
in The CIO Weblog, on December 27, 2006
An article in Bloomberg highlights the plan to reduce hiring in SAP, As inidcated by Claus Heinrich an SAP board member in charge of personnel.: Excerpts:
The ratio of new software engineers to total new hires will drop in 2007 from more than 50 percent this year, said Claus Heinrich, in an i...
Future of BI
in The CIO Weblog, on December 27, 2006
Baseline Mag , Highlights a set of new uses of BI, excerpts below:
Office Apps/Mobile Access Cognos in 2005 introduced, as part of its new Cognos 8 business intelligence software, a feature called Go! Office, which lets organizations interact with content within commonly used Microsoft Offi...
Wipro's Apporach to Attrition
in The CIO Weblog, on November 26, 2006
... Attrition & People are the greatest concern for IT Services firms, just read the article on Wipro's revised approach - People Pulse , the people tracker colour-codes every Wipro ...