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Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
... trading a license to print money. Earlier this week, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefing their expertise and setting up climate desks for their clients which include high ...
Virginia Nanotechnology Park Moves Forward
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 9, 2009
...basic nanotechnology research from 2003 through 2007 with 187. Virginia Tech and nearby nanotech firms captured 61 of them valued at $15 million, more grants than in any other region of the state.&q...
Jackson Memorial Service Internet Viewing May Match Obama's Inauguration
in Wangtam, on July 8, 2009
...f experts around the world - LiveWork
• Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
• Massively
• CollegeClassifieds.com - College Classifieds Textbooks, Jobs, Apartment Rentals, Carpools, Roommates...
Outsourcing Trends
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 2, 2009
... © laura padgett
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...
Install OS X On SD Card
in Wangtam, on June 30, 2009
... HTC Hero Pre-Order At Amazon UK!
• Microsoft puts Razorfish up for sale
• Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe
• Fennec Alpha 2 now available for Windows Mobile
• Vodafone eye...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...rge institutions that could destroy the financial system. The changes also force financial services firms to carry more capital to guard against losses. They will also have to retain a portion of the ...
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
... © chucklin
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...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...cts their large logistics chain.
- The predicted growth haven't materialized so some logistics firms have ended up with extra resources.
So, like many other sectors, these companies have started...
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
in Wangtam, on June 10, 2009
...smaller firms
• Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple
• Breaking: Facebook Username Landrush to Start June 13 at Midnight
• Bing Off to a Good Start in First Week of Search Activity, According to comS...
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...
50 Beautiful Flash Websites
in Wangtam, on June 9, 2009
...he European Parliament
• WWDC 2009 Predictions
• Super Chirp
• PC firms face China decree
• Seesmic To Launch New Desktop Version, iPhone App And Browser Based Client
• Scan Your Books And S...
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...
Supply chain video: Short interview on SC Finance
in Supplychainer, on June 8, 2009
...panies in car business have put working capital reduction in their agenda and gives examples of the firms like KPN (Telecom operator in Netherlands) and Syngenta and their initiatives.
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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...
Supply chain video: Supply chain scorecard
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
... there are less examples of the concepts and models such as SCOR reference model adopted by several firms at once. However, I came across another new one which is becoming mainstream among Electric co...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...nstead of buying them to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final suggestion was that taxes on VC firms not be raised past the current capital gains framework.
Bulger at PE Hub made some interesti...
Britain to lose AAA rating, US is next
in Sox First, on May 23, 2009
...d of course, the perverse irony is that the US is running up a budget deficit to save the financial firms that had been given AAA ratings by those same ratings agencies....
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
...ir employees at a record pace. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, mortgage brokerage firms slashed 3,900 employees in January alone. This leaves a smaller number of loan officers to han...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
... engagement levels should set alarm bells ringing in boardrooms because there is some evidence that firms with highly engaged workforces tend to outperform stragglers." So with more companies cu...
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...
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...
Cashing in on the disgust with banks
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...l be losing market share to such forces as peer-to-peer lending, Islamic finance, boutique advisory firms and retailers setting up their own banks. All of them will be cashing in on the public disgust...
Financial crisis winners to hurt banks
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
Who are the big winners coming out of this financial crisis? And how will they threaten to destroy banks? The Economist identifies four big winners that will decimate the banking sector. These include the advisory boutiques which are cashing in on the banks destroying their reputations and da...
Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups
in The RFID Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID firms who would like to bring over their technology experience. It will be offering flexible facilit...
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 ...
SpringSource Buys Hyperic
in Java Entrepreneur, on May 11, 2009
...n popularity in the five years since it was created, and it has won numerous accolades from analyst firms, such as Gartner, which named it a 'company to watch in 2009,'" writes SD Times&...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...e losing the war by inadvertently driving talent away from American tech companies and into foreign firms and startups, according to this Investors.com article .
The problem is an outgrowth of a lar...
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...
Kapalua Saved. PGA Sighs With Relief
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 8, 2009
...r broader industry sectors" rather than sticking with the traditional financial and automotive firms.
Ya think? The Tour should have been doing this last year but apparently they're not too ...
USC Gets $12.5 Million from DOE for Nanotech Energy Research
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 2, 2009
...rs will be established at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation... the new Materials for Energy Systems research center at USC will seek to ...
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...
The Future of Golf is Online
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 17, 2009
...dumb about that is how global advertisers like Coke, MacDonald's, Ford, GM, worldwide financial firms like UBS, Citi and many others are denied access to a literally global audience.
When you com...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
...uld Save $1+ Billion Per Year Outsourcing Search To Microsoft
• Time Warner delays meter program
• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories
• Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confuse your moral com...
InfoSys's Sales Decline
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 15, 2009
... © JustinLowery.com
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. ...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...ournal was raising concerns about the Obama administration's plans to regulate venture capital firms, pointing out that Sarbanes Oxley's compliance costs had stopped start ups from going publ...
Skype's Founders Want Their Company Back
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...uot;Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have approached several private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling service...
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
...d selection of IT executives, whether or not the conversations matched up with what the big analyst firms were talking about; IT/business alignment or the post-IT/business alignment world (depending o...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...he 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 their compensation pract...
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...
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...
Novell Intros SLE 11
in HackITLinux, on March 27, 2009
...dows tools."
"On the server side, SLE 11 offers a high-availability extension that lets firms build Linux clusters to maintain business continuity," writes VNUnet's Daniel Robins...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...cretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we should be p...
NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft
in Wangtam, on March 26, 2009
...sable the Close button (X) of selected windows.
• Firms Seek Profit in Twitter's Chatter
• IBM to Cut U.S. Jobs, Expand in India
• For Whom the .Tel Tolls
• iStopOver Short Term Rentals: R...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
... 2009. The financial crisis has disrupted the normal functioning of the banking system and deprived firms and individuals of much-needed credit. Falling stock markets and housing prices have also admi...
Executive pay and shareholder greed
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... Barack Obama is about to give itself increased oversight of executive pay at banks and Wall Street firms. The new rules, it's said, are likely to tie pay more closely to performance and one would...
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 .
Enjoy!
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A.I.G. Lists Firms It Paid With Taxpayer Money
in Wangtam, on March 16, 2009
...• A.I.G. Lists Firms It Paid With Taxpayer Money
• Email Marketing with Sendn
• FastSoft, Inc.
• BlueStripe Software
• Web Access Management | On Demand | Symplified
• Axxana.com - Taking D...
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 ...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
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All over the world, financial services firms are sacking workers. An International Labor Organisation (ILO) report says there were 325,000 layoffs around the world between August 2007 and 12 Feb...
8 Mistakes
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 10, 2009
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5964395
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
...tesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4326573
In this article in IndustryWeek, one of the key problems in outsourcing relationships is explored. While this article focuses on manufacturing, it also applies ...
IBM to Buy Satyam?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 6, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1908674
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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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...
Follow Me on Twitter!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 1, 2009
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Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...al projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So I see more and more consulting firms launching such programs:
Oliver Wight is one of them which has launched a series of "Fa...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3068294
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...
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...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
... the sorts of sponsors the PGA Tour - or any other Tour that has done business with major financial firms - wants to dance the Tango with.
The problem is in finding other well-heeled sponsors outside...
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...
AZ Collection Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...ing partnerships with the most renowned local artisans , as well as the internationally recognized firms, to bring you a unique and extensive selection at the best possible value. ...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...g much to rein in the finance buccaneers given how they heavily it was funded by financial services firms including hedge funds. "In Republican and Democratic national politics, the notion of a ...
Banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...omics Nouriel Roubini, Dr Doom himself, has warned that total losses on loans by American financial firms and their falling value will reach $3.6 trillion. That's up substantially from his previou...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
... Wilson of Citadel Compliance Group LLC describes compliance issues and concerns that arise during outsourcing and offshoring transactions. The article, intended for both outsourcing and compliance m...
