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in Wangtam, on July 8, 2009
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China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
... contributing region for nine of 15 risks examined, including supplier and internal product quality failure, security breaches and intellectual property infringement. (Note: Probably you remember some...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
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Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computin...
Outsourcing Trends
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 2, 2009
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Here's an interesting article on outsourcing trends (made more interesting because I am quoted in it).
In any case, I believe that outsourcing could be at the leading edge...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
...ting examination early this month of what may be the biggest problem faced by the H-1B visa: Indian outsourcing.
A bill currently before Congress, the Durbin-Grassley visa reform bill, would probably...
How biotech companies can reduce supply chain risk?
in Supplychainer, on June 25, 2009
... shut down (the same as many other sectors:)).
What was interesting for me was their use of FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) which is very established method in quality management to reduce s...
I Am Making The SSD Jump Thanks to Kingston V-Series Kit
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 16, 2009
...romises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the process to upgrade, and to tools to do it are included. This is SSD f...
So profitieren Kunden und Versicherer durch IT-Consultants
in versicherungsintern, on June 12, 2009
...eiberuflicher IT-Consultant: "Aus Sicht der Unternehmen geht es weder um das komplette Outsourcing der IT-Abteilung noch um den Aufbau einer Parallelabteilung. Es geht lediglich um punktuelle Unt...
Worth Watching!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 11, 2009
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This video is a humorous poke at the Customer-Vendor relationship in outsourcing deals... does it remind you of any of your relationships?
I just wish there was another one from th...
Outsourcing Your Dating Life
in The Dating Weblog, on June 10, 2009
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A number of sources ( TechCrunch , Online Dating insider , VentureBeat ) have reported on a new service that lets you outsource all the stuff involved in online dating - for a mere $480 a month.
VirtualDatingAssistants.com will do the work of creating your profile and scre...
Could This be the Future of Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...rket, but because of the underlying concept of reverse project auctions.
I have long thought that outsourcing projects could be susceptible to reverse auctions. In commodity-level sourcing, a project...
Crowdsourcing
in Web 2.0, on June 7, 2009
...urcing as "the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open c...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...once the king of the mortgage-lending business. Now he's the face of the industry's massive failure. According to the Reuters story, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil l...
PSP Go is Official, but Where is it Headed
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 1, 2009
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There are three types of products: trend-setters, trend-setter competitors, and failures. For example, the Nintendo DS was a trend-setter, and the original PSP was a competitor, and the iPod Touc...
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Tissue
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...ow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and thus reverse damages due to heart failure by doubling myocytes, or heart cells, and reducing cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent.
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Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
... prefer the more traditional sugar-coating and uncertainty followed by outright layoffs or business failure, prompting this observation in comments:
It's an interesting portrait in psychology, h...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
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Gopalakrishnan clearly sees the dangers in industry consolidation and in changes in the nature of outsourcing, with more businesses taking the same tack as they have with their internal IT organizat...
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...ivers and those dams and reservoirs might endanger wildlife and might be vulnerable to catastrophic failure, unleashing devastating floods on those downstream. Indeed, this risk might be increased by ...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... EquaTerra highlighted its "Speed Sourcing" concept - an accelerated process to complete outsourcing deals. The practice, whereby the entire procurement and negotiation process is compressed...
The problem with economists
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
... France, sheds light on the hubris of the profession. The paper, The Financial Crisis and Systemic Failure of Academic Economics points out that this crisis is different from its predecessors. While...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...happen a lot more frequently than "doing things right." The danger to IT shops lies in a failure to adapt to this reality even as the market around them does. As Lawson says, "...if IT ...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...ymore and why exactly you still need that plump budget, anyway.
To be fair, Hackett discusses both outsourcing and offshoring in their cost control strategy, and both are among the techniques that I ...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
...rested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking this nut, and the differences between th...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
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The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they d...
Failure Whets the Appetite for Success
in TJ's Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...'s Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me th...
S&OP in high tech companies should incorporates measures of risk
in Supplychainer, on April 30, 2009
...decision-makers are now more concerned about maintaining the integrity of their pipeline. "The failure of some suppliers in China has become an issue," he said. "And having the low-wage...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...ues, in an article posted on WhatPC yesterday, talked about the difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relations...
Future structural changes in supply chains
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...son and Zeng suggest, we could see entire value-chains established within a geographic region.
- Outsourcing and contract manufacturing changes: There is some opinion that contract manufacturers th...
More job cuts ahead: Bain
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
... achieving their cost reduction targets. The other tools they plan to use to meet these targets are Outsourcing and Business Process Re-Engineering. All up, that's a sign that many more will lose...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
... of what creates profit opportunities and causes instability in the global economy results from the failure of these assumptions. Herd behaviour, asset mispricing and grossly imperfect information hav...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
... cell service also went down as the trunks to towers were severed. An unanticipated side effect was failure of software systems internal to the hospital, which apparently required outside connectivity...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
...uld Save $1+ Billion Per Year Outsourcing Search To Microsoft
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Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
... useful. But the real question is, would you have come up with those ideas on your own? Because the failure of this generation of innovative services might have a significant chilling effect on invest...
InfoSys's Sales Decline
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 15, 2009
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Proving once again that the outsourcing marketplace is not immune to the recession, IT outsourcing giant, Infosys, has seen a downturn in its business - its first since 1981. ...
Data Robotics Introduces DroboPro Storage Device
in On Storage, on April 11, 2009
...inch SATA hard drives to back up data and to provide redundancy to protect against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard disks," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "When a...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...ad of what's failed. Start appointing people who have records of success, instead of records of failure. That would be another nice place to start. There are lots of things we can do. Even today, ...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ction among those who sign the checks: the sheer amount of confusion and uncertainty created by the failure of this deal creates risk that can in most cases be avoided by proceeding with other vendors...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...reduced or taken off the table when the firm starts performing badly so there will be no reward for failure. Furthermore, firms have to "clear, comprehensive and timely information" about th...
A video on social efforts from Dr. Patrick Dixon
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 31, 2009
...st in social welfare oriented activities. In this video from Patrick, he talks about the effects of outsourcing on social welfare in poor countries and a sustainable solution to solve global poverty p...
From Ganz: Site Issues Update
in WebKinzBlog, on March 31, 2009
... This weekend we had a hardware failure with one of our many servers. We are currently in the process of fixing this issue. The impact of this failure is that the Curio Shop information for today was ...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...#39;s a bit of an open question as to how much corporate culture actually matters to the success or failure of the products produced by the company. Certainly it's always a factor; the question is...
Asetek appoints new supply chain lead
in Supplychainer, on March 29, 2009
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According to Business Wire , Mr. Tang brings extensive knowledge of OEM and EMS manufacturing, outsourcing, materials and supplier management to the company. Tang also brings expertise in contrac...
The questions you should ask before going to implementation of SCM solutions?
in Supplychainer, on March 28, 2009
... people have asked me is: "How should we approach implementation of a SCM initiative, avoiding failure?". Well, I think we should even start from before the implementation: We should ask our...
Are Visa Rules a Form of Protectionism? India Thinks So...
in Global Mobility Report, on March 22, 2009
...m hiring foreigners on H-1B visas. The problem is not just the H-1B visa. Many U.S. politicians see outsourcing to India as part of their own economic problems. And bitterness in India over the tighte...
IBM Buying Sun?
in Java Entrepreneur, on March 21, 2009
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The Wall Street Journal this week broke the news that IBM is considering purchasing Sun Microsystems .
"Teams of International Business Machines Corp. lawyers are examining Sun Microsystems Inc.'s contracts and documents in a due-diligence process that could take a...
And Now for Something Completely Different
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 20, 2009
... and gloom, sometimes we need to take a minute and laugh. To that end, take a look at this clip on outsourcing from The Onion .
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Staying Motivated
in TJ's Weblog, on March 16, 2009
...one what that.
The post goes on to talk about several other things to avoid. Things like fear of failure, or that "quiet period" where nothing at all happens for weeks or months.
You can ...
Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows（含 Protable 版）
in Wangtam, on March 15, 2009
Skype 4.0 上周有了小更新，主要都是一些 Bug 修复。
11.03.2009 Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows
Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
...hat the U.S. funds its own social safety net, and how that funding creates additional pressure for outsourcing/offshoring.
Unlike most of the industrialized world, the U.S. does not fund the bulk of ...
8 Mistakes
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 10, 2009
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While an article like this shows up in the outsourcing press on a regular basis, this one, in GlobalServices, is a good, succinct summary of eight...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...mic crisis creates an environment with the potential, or even likelihood, of great upheaval for the outsourcing market. You can find all perspectives on just what that upheaval might look like; Satya...
The Outsourcing Paradox
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 8, 2009
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In this article in IndustryWeek, one of the key problems in outsourcing relationships is explored. While this article focuses on manufacturing, it also applies ...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 8, 2009
...ootprint and help make better customer service-level decisions as well as lead to more advantageous outsourcing of key functions.
Sustainable sourcing and procurement. By encouraging suppliers to d...
IBM to Buy Satyam?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 6, 2009
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The rumor mill is swirling around Satyam. On March 7, the Australian web site, IT News reported that IBM was in talks to buy Satyam. This is really interesting and looks like it could be a good, opportunistic, pickup for IBM.
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Biocase Fingerprint Lock Will Be Well Intentioned Failure
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 4, 2009
Some uses of technology are well intentioned but destined to fail. Windows Vista, Circuit City, and musical greeting cards are great examples. The Biocase Fingerprint Luggage lock is another well-intentioned product that is more trouble than it is worth. I completely understand the need to keep...
Obama's Tax Breaks and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 3, 2009
...a recent article published by the Gerson Lehrman Group, Obama's elimination of tax breaks for outsourcing was analyzed. The article states (and I agree) that there is a large difference between ...
A More Pessimistic View of Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 2, 2009
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In today's Tech Trader Daily section of Barron's a pessimistic view of the Indian outsourcing industry this year. Wachovia's Edward Caso points out that "demand remains lack...
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in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 1, 2009
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Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
... investors need to play 'What If?' even when it involves some outlandish possibilities. The failure to do such worst-case planning, even after plenty of red flags, probably made the after-shoc...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
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As a long-time participant in the outsourcing industry, I was not surprised by India Inc.'s hyperbolic reaction to the budget presented by Pre...
Still in the dark on Steve Jobs
in Sox First, on February 26, 2009
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Last month, I did a blog entry slagging off at the Apple board and its total failure of corporate governance, keeping shareholders in the dark about Steve Jobs, his health and the likelihood or ...
The 25 Most Dangerous Places for Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 26, 2009
...interesting article popped up in Network World today highlighting the 25 most dangerous places for outsourcing . In addition to simply listing 25 areas with high crime or high risk of terrorist attac...
Outsourcing Takes a Hit
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 24, 2009
... BusinessWeek had a piece earlier this month on the how a number of businesses are cutting back on outsourcing as part of their fiscal response to the recession. Of course, that's hurting outsour...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...could deliver steady, positive, market-beating returns in any type of climate, despite the manifest failure of virtually every other money manager to do so-were obviously foolish. But our best financi...
Is Mexico still a viable near-shore location?
in Supplychainer, on February 19, 2009
A report by the US Joint Forces Command published in January 2009 caught some by surprise: "In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico ." According to...
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in Wangtam, on February 17, 2009
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SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...chnology or technical concept, without considerable depth of adoption, it risks marginalization and failure in the markets. A significant concern noted by many CIOs when considering SaaS solutions has...
Data management and forecasting remain top challenges in life science sector
in Supplychainer, on February 16, 2009
...erent systems. This may require recruiting resources with specific expertise in data integration or outsourcing such task to business services firms.
The authors also propose companies to focus on v...
The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on February 14, 2009
...et to one, but depression economics has returned. For the first time in two generations, there is a failure in the demand side of the economy. To put it bluntly, there is insufficient spending. The ob...
IBM provides EC2 versions of server software
in The CIO Weblog, on February 12, 2009
...r a mixed model and to produce its own cloud service, Azure, in-house, but there are glimmerings of failure in those efforts already (although the game is hardly over). IBM may be able to vault over t...
