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Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US
in Wangtam, on May 22, 2009
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Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...ishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featured panelist at Microsoft's CEO summit this week and...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...actly 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 would recommend ...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...that is near and dear to protectionist hearts after the H1B program, it is the growing trend toward offshoring. Many of the firms serving that trend are well-staffed with American-educated students.
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The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
... moral philosopher Adam Smith who argued that self-interest was the "invisible hand" that guided markets. Only in the case of pirates, it was the "invisible hook". Like any good b...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
... difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relationships have clearly migrated from "non-core" business fun...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
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in Wangtam, on March 25, 2009
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Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
... 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 health care ...
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in Wangtam, on March 12, 2009
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Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...ance rather than relegate it.
Meanwhile, there is strong political sentiment in the US to reign in offshoring in general, with the somewhat mis-conceived notion that all these overseas shenanigans in...
Obama's Tax Breaks and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 3, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 204085
In 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 the elimination of tax benefits for a business...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...del Compliance Group LLC describes compliance issues and concerns that arise during outsourcing and offshoring transactions. The article, intended for both outsourcing and compliance managers, highlig...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley mean audit offshoring?
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
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Offshoring has become more prevalent in recent years. Most firms send part of their operations to cheaper places overseas. But offshoring of audit functions is becoming more popular and, accordin...
A Visit to Buenos Aires
in Latina Viva, on January 29, 2009
...y in Buenos Aires. He's renting an apartment in the city. We used our guide book to take a self guided walking tour which directed us to the Plaza de Mayo, Plaza Congresso and beautiful buildi...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Taking advantage of recessionary pressures to restructure IT
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
...ific ideas on procurement and support, lightweight, flexible operations models, and outsourcing and offshoring options.
It's always interesting to me how businesses can suddenly find so much to c...
Is the Downturn Affecting Offshore Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 20, 2008
...n those savings have proved elusive). As such, I think it could be a very, very long time before we offshoring rebounds....
World Diabetes Day Update
in Daily Diabetic, on November 18, 2008
...r 10,800 times here) were selected by participants.
Event ambassadors affected by type 1 diabetes guided the interactive discussion, including ESPN anchor Brian Kenny; Formula 3 racecar driver Charl...
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
The Slowdown's Effect on Indian Hiring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 28, 2008
...ult economic market - particularly if the political costs offset the perceived economic benefits of offshoring.
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Is reverse offshoring a trend?
in Supplychainer, on October 24, 2008
...e; but a recent survey done by Duke University shows that still most of the companies prefer to use offshoring or producing outside U.S..
In fact, instead of back-shoring, the trend which is shaping...
Europe Feels the Crisis
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...proach.
With such an approach, job creation and stability may become a priority - and opponents of offshoring may find new allies in the corporate boardroom.
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High End Jobs Going to India
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...tesy of iStockphoto , Marcus Clackson
Today's San Jose Mercury News reported on the trend of offshoring higher-end tasks, like graphic design, legal work and other "thought process" t...
Climb Sydney Harbour Bridge
in Wandalust, on October 10, 2008
...slots day, night and twilight and two different routes, The Bridge Club or The Discovery Climb. The guided tour takes three and a half hours and prices start at 179 Australian dollars per adult (aroun...
Citi, Lehman sell India Units
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 9, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Andrew Johnson
Citi has sold its Indian captive to Tata and Lehman has sold its Indian captive to Nomura in two of the largest (and what may be two of the only major) sales of US-owned captives. See this article in InformationWeek.
In the Citi deal, the center...
Distribution of Contraceptives, Approved at Gloucester
in Next Nine Months, on October 9, 2008
...r agreed with last night's decision.
Pact or no pact, I think high school students have to be guided and educated well in terms of pregnancy, sex and even cervical cancer and cervical cancer vac...
Value Will Be King
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...st. What is the fertilizer for such new growth? In a word, value.
In recent years, outsourcing and offshoring was all about labor arbitrage - reducing high-cost headcount with offshore headcount at s...
Running for the Paparazzi tours, Los Angeles
in Wandalust, on October 6, 2008
...cup cake, better book fast as the tour is very popular. I think I'd be taking a leisurely self guided walking tour.
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The Fall of Finance
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...esy of iStockphoto , Felix Möckel
For about the last ten years, many corporate decisions were guided by (or held up by) concerns raised by the finance department. Many of those "on the groun...
Outsourcing to the Phillipines
in The CIO Weblog, on September 27, 2008
I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place behind India in outsourcing revenues.
This makes perfect sense from a call-center outsourcing per...
Back to school?
in The Parenting Weblog, on September 25, 2008
...l knew my initial application would be denied automatically due to not having the gpa but they guided me through the appeal process and I was accepted into the program.
Thank goodness they cared...
Will the Instability in Pakistan Affect the Offshoring Market
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 19, 2008
...ing off of the front pages of the U.S. media, one of the things that worries me most with regard to offshoring is the recent instability of Pakistan and the threat that it poses to offshoring in Ind...
Novel Prostate Cancer Treatment, Pioneered at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI)
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 18, 2008
...earch Institute (SRI) in Toronto.
The said treatment is called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided transurethral ultrasound - a treatment that utilizes heat from focused ultrasound to treat ca...
a-GPS Hits AT&T
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on September 17, 2008
...gings, gas prices, movie reviews and show times.
MapQuest Navigator will give turn-by-turn, voice-guided driving and walking directions, 3D moving maps, and access to 16 million points of interest f...
Lehman, Merrill and Offshoring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 15, 2008
...man Brothers and the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America will present huge challenges to offshoring in the near- to mid-term. Aside from the clear consolidation in the markets that this wil...
Grand Deals at the Grand Old Opry
in The Flyaway Weblog, on September 11, 2008
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What Kind of Jobs Cannot be Outsourced?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 8, 2008
...hareholders and offshorers for two reasons: (a) it doesn't create a disincentive to today's offshoring, and (b) it seeks to create new areas of high-wage, high-skill jobs - the jobs that our g...
Art Deco hotels in Miami
in Wandalust, on September 5, 2008
...the Carlyle Hotel and the Beacon Hotel .
The Miami Design Preservation League offer 90 minute guided tours of Art Deco buildings every day except Monday or you can take a self guided audio tour....
The Outsourcing Boomerang
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 5, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Niels Quist Petersen In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology article , findings of the Black Book of Outsourcing were discussed. In this year's survey, the Black Book discovered a trend of moving work back to on-shore and near-shore servic...
Duelling analysts
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...and Company and The Hackett Group. McKinsey released a report today entitled "Time to rethink offshoring?" while Hackett put out an e-mail alert this morning with the subject "Back-Of...
Why is Outsourcing the Political Whipping Boy?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2008
...t;ownership society" - corporate management and shareholder groups - have used outsourcing and offshoring to further extract rents from the other stakeholder groups - generally represented by the...
Offshoring decisions as a function of supply chain fuel cost
in Supplychainer, on August 30, 2008
... brought another relevant graph based on his research (taken from SC Digest ) which formulates the offshoring decisions as function of the cost to move the warehousing and logistics infrastructure an...
Mongering... Fear and Otherwise
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 29, 2008
...t ever the spin and whatever your perspective, the position offered by Mr. Obama will not eliminate offshoring, but instead may alter the equation a bit. I seriously doubt that it will reach the tippi...
Do Outsourcing Awards Mean Anything?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 22, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5962793
Any news search that looks at offshoring or outsourcing is bound to come up with a number of items saying that "so-and-so" vendor finish...
Legal Process Outsourcing - Who Benefits
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...e Clifford Chance model will be sustainable in a marketplace where the justification for permitting offshoring is cost-driven, not quality-driven.
See the linked article for more information.
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Headcount at Outsourcing Vendors
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...ient, particularly in the first few years. It may also be that near-shoring is more productive than offshoring for certain tasks.
This productivity gap may not be too big an issue - as long as wage d...
Steps in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 4, 2008
...her Information Systems detailed the steps that they went through in helping a client enter into an offshoring relationship. The articles provide an interesting high-level overview of the process and ...
A Dead Deal
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 1, 2008
...en dealing with a European provider. What that tells me is that either (a) there was no significant offshoring aspect to this deal, or (b) that the deal was not properly priced by HP. In any case, it ...
India instability may drive offshoring to China
in The CIO Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...Chinese IT industry already poised to encroach on India's undisputed position atop the global offshoring dogpile , the latest developments in Bangalore are sure to be unwelcome news to I...
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in Allergies, on July 29, 2008
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Supply chain video: What is the right paradigm in next generation outsourcing?
in Supplychainer, on July 27, 2008
...Now that many global companies have already used offshoring to India and China to reduce the cost of their operation, the question which remains on the table is: What is the next step? What should be ...
New PRTM research highlights supply chain trends till 2010
in Supplychainer, on July 24, 2008
...continue to emerge as major targets for globalization, while Eastern Europe is catching up as a top offshoring destination. Investments in North America and Western Europe also remain strong as compan...
Confusing Numbers
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 23, 2008
... 2008, considering it's an election year in the US." he went on to say that "[a]s any offshoring contracts or significant layoffs become very visible in an election year, customers are g...
SmartMirror Puts GPS In Your Face
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 23, 2008
... am always using it. It seems so futuristic and cool to drive my 10 year old truck with a satellite guided navigational system. The new SmartMirror by Azentek takes the GPS concept and makes it just a...
Offshore outsourcing in trouble?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...domestic costs, rising. But Larry Dignan puts together some signs that all may not be well on the offshoring front.
Dignan puts together cautious statements from the Big Three Indian off-shoring fi...
China-based supply chain becoming a threat?
in Supplychainer, on July 10, 2008
... For a global company nowadays, using China as one of the base countries for sourcing and offshoring is a must and we see these across many sectors such as electronic consumer goods, medical de...
Apple 发布 iPhone 3G 新功能演示视频
in Wangtam, on July 3, 2008
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Apple 昨天发布了一个 iPhone 3G 新功能演示视频"iPhone 3G Guided Tour"，用于帮助用户了解 iPhone 3G 中增加的新功能。视频中提到了 iPhone 3G 以及旧款 iPhone 升级 2.0 版本固件之后的各种新性特性及其操作。如果你已经决定了要购买 iPhone 3G，那就先看看这个视频吧。...
Hurray! A Sports Game Worth Playing on your DS!
in House of Nintendo, on June 23, 2008
...'s clumsy attempts to do the same (i.e. Superstar mode in Madden). In last year's game, you guided a young college player through several seasons of college baseball , all while training...
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in Wangtam, on June 19, 2008
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Mark Hughes takes over at Manchester City
in The Soccer Weblog, on June 4, 2008
...eason, their third top ten finish in a row, to take over at Eastlands where Sven Goran Eriksson had guided them to ninth.
In many ways this could be regarded as a sideways move by 'Sparky' Hu...
Does Legal Process Outsourcing Waive a Client's Fourth Amendment Rights?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 1, 2008
...h Hennessey sought clarification from the DC and Maryland Bar Associations regarding whether or not offshoring legal services compromises a client's fourth amendment rights. The suit is based on t...
China to encroach on India's offshoring turf?
in The CIO Weblog, on May 22, 2008
Why not? It sounds like the new frontier, reading this ComputerWorld article on opportunities for Mandarin speaking folks with managerial experience in the burgeoning Chinese IT market.
While India has loads of technical talent, as the article points out it isn't difficult to replicate that w...
Outsourcing in a recession
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2008
After I posted this article last week discussing cost-cutting measures and briefly mentioning that CIOs who had structured their departments to make significant use of outsourced services had a much easier time cutting costs quickly or temporarily, someone mentioned that I should have been more sp...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on May 16, 2008
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
微软WorldWide Telescope公测版发布
in GSeeker, on May 13, 2008
...ndows版本，其它平台用户要等一等了。
经过初步的试用，WWT在界面上感觉比Google Earth更方便、美观。由于默认情况下就是全屏模式，因此在视觉上更震撼。如果你有24寸或更大的显示器，再加上良好的计算机硬件性能及高速宽带上网，那你在使用WWT时很可能真的会很兴奋，甚至流泪。如果你家里有天文望远镜，不妨试一下WWT能否认出它，因为它支持连接天文望远镜控制。
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Material Handler Robot!
in Supplychainer, on April 25, 2008
...ontrol. The machines use vision technology to learn their routes, so no wires on the floor or laser guided system is needed. This makes them very flexible to changing requirements, and we are told the...
Oncology Diagnostics By AviaraDx
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 14, 2008
...ormalin-fixed and Paraffin -embedded (FFPE) tissue samples easily available from imaging-guided needle biopsies.]
There you go. Read more .
[Thanks to Laura Baumgartner for the hat tip!]...
Visiting a College Campus
in The Universities Weblog, on April 7, 2008
...hat visiting one does.
Grove has some very good suggestions. For starters, don't just take the guided tour; spend some time roaming the campus on your own, without a guide. You'll see things ...
Opera Mini 1.4 beta released!
in Tech Without Wires, on April 6, 2008
... browsing experience continues with Opera releasing Opera Mini 1.4 beta .
Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour by operasoftware
The new beta version boasts of 50% faster page loading, suggest...
