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Change Your Thermostat’s Setting to Save Money on AC
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...ck to its normal setting and it won't take long to cool the house again. This way, you are not wasting a lot of electricity cooling a house that nobody is in.
If you run an exhaust fan either in...
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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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...
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 ...
Newspaper futures
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...akeover, and unless the investors are prepared to put in more to reshape the Chronicle they will be wasting their money. To get some idea what's possible, check this CNET report on how the New ...
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...
Gaps In the Schedule
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 28, 2009
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And speaking of economic debacles, sports writer, Steve Elling lambastes Chrysler Corporation for wasting taxpayers' money - bailout money, if you prefer - on the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Ex...
Saving Money Isn't What It Used to Be
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...more frugal in our travels - if you traveled at all. Now that it has relaxed some, be careful about wasting money on unnecessary trips - save it instead.
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 57...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pirate sentanced to 3 years probation
in P2P File Sharing, on September 5, 2008
...re expected to see the same sort of sentancing.
It confuses us and Zeropaid why the government are wasting time and money going after people who are not in it for the profit? Surely that is a civil...
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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Official Windows 7 blog opens
in The CIO Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...onetheless, this is exactly what I think Microsoft should be doing at this juncture, instead of wasting, say, $300 million on a Vista marketing campaign . Get out there and drum up some excitemen...
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...
How many cars do you need
in carzz.org, on August 8, 2008
...aren't driving as much and are quickly realizing that having a car just sit in the driveway is wasting money.
More and more people are taking the bus, tram, train, or car pooling , How abou...
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 ...
Exercise Pill...Anyone?
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 31, 2008
...mic the effects of exercise have therapeutic potential in treating certain muscle diseases, such as wasting and frailty, as well as obesity and a slew of associated metabolic disorders where exercise ...
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...
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...
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...
SoWine preserves your wine
in The Wired Home Weblog, on July 16, 2008
... When you open a new bottle of wine (and don't finish it) you stand the risk of wasting the remainder of the bottle if you don't drink it soon. The sowine bar is designed to hold two bo...
Telecommuting: the employee perspective
in The CIO Weblog, on July 11, 2008
... complaint isn't to keep people on the hook during their personal time, but rather to stop them wasting time at work... or figure out why that is somehow an issue which suddenly requires compensat...
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...
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...
Revision3 sends the FBI after MediaDefender
in P2P File Sharing, on May 30, 2008
...very good light. Rather than sending cease and desists, they put up fake files, tricking users into wasting their time downloading files they do not need. They also have a reputation for DoS attacks, ...
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...
Slow starters
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 12, 2008
...9;t do showers or baths in the morning unless necessary. She eats a simple breakfast so I'm not wasting time cooking. I couldn't cook if I wanted because I have to keep her on track.
She'...
Jaxtr allows you to send free SMS to your friends & family globally
in The Smart PDA, on April 18, 2008
... 38 countries. So if your friends and family reside in one of those 38 countries, there is no point wasting money on texting. Most important of all registration is totally free. Read more about it he...
Are you decluttering your office?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 4, 2008
... able to find things faster, have more time to accomplish more important tasks and you will not be wasting time going through a bunch of clutter to find what you need.
I found that taking easy steps...
Real Time Traffic in Your Car: Dash Express Launches on Amazon
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 27, 2008
...ite features: it can tell you the price of gas at each station nearby so you can price shop without wasting gas driving around."
Summing up the range of reviews already published, SlashGear...
ASA Calls CBD, Sierra Club and PEER Out About MisInformation Tactic
in Under My Helmet, on March 24, 2008
...t have the data to make their case, but they know they can delay the action and are perfectly happy wasting YOUR tax dollars doing it....
Protestaufruf der Tierhilfe Hoffnung: Rumänienhunde
in pfotenundfell, on March 17, 2008
Es gibt einen neuen Aufruf in Sachen rumänischer Hunde und Katzen der Tierhilfe Hoffnung . Nachdem in Rumänien ein neues Tierschutzgesetz schon fast beschlossen war, scheint dieses nun doch noch gekippt werden zu sollen - ein Rückfall in düstere Zeiten?
"Wie wir in einer Aussendung zu Weihnac...
John Daly's Role in Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 15, 2008
...r who gives golf "color" and those who think it's just a terrible shame that he's wasting all that talent, not to mention his health.
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BootStrapMe interviews Bijoy Goswami (Part 2)
in BootStrapMe, on March 5, 2008
...ther words, if I've got a great idea and strike out alone without a team already in place, am I wasting my time or can the team grow organically as I move forward in my efforts?
BG: Bootstrappe...
Hologram-toting IC tag: Combo of RFID and Hologram from Hitachi and Toppan
in The RFID Weblog, on March 4, 2008
...ty expensive designer handbags or perfume you will be confident of the fact that you are not wasting your hard earned money on some fake product which can only be distinguished from the genuine...
Valentine's Day Book Recommendations
in The Dating Weblog, on February 14, 2008
...is year. Maybe it's because there's no one on your online dating sites that seems worthy of wasting your time with this love day. Or perhaps it's because you're just starting to dip yo...
Book Review: Living Rich By Spending Smart by Gregory Karp
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 5, 2008
...might also feel overwhelmed and end up doing none of them because suddenly you feel like you're wasting money like crazy and you'll never get it under control. Here's what I'd do. Afte...
Breathe Easy - Air Car is on the Way
in carzz.org, on February 4, 2008
They used to say, "The best things in life are free." Well one thing that has always been free now may cost you money to run your car.
How obnoxious it was when gas stations started to charge for air. Now you may start seeing signs at filling stations that read - "Air $5.0...
Reverse flow of offshoring back to America
in Supplychainer, on January 22, 2008
I have already written a little about this but reading Hottest Supply Chain Buzzwords list in Industry Week became a motivation for me to pinpoint the issue one more time:
Many manufacturers in U.S. are currently shifting their sourcing base from Asia to the Americas. The falling U.S. dollar,...
Nichts gelernt: Top-Gespräche auf der CeBIT 2008
in Das CIO Weblog, on January 21, 2008
...T Outsourcing, wie der jüngste "Hexaware Outsourcing/Offshoring Report" beweist. Über 40 Mrd. Dollar für 2008 vorausgesagt!
o Richard Woods , Geschäftsführer Interactive Intelligence, präs...
Europe catches the outsourcing wave
in The CIO Weblog, on January 10, 2008
...Although much of the hoopla over outsourcing and offshoring technology functions has died down in the press lately (a bit odd, considering the Election year spooling up here in the US), the market...
My Biggest Regret of 2007: I Wish I Spent More Time On Facebook
in Businesspundit, on January 8, 2008
... on Facebook. But I bet there are days that you sat down intending to spend 20 minutes and ended up wasting 2 hours on it, or on some other Web 2.0 site.
Human beings are suffering from a values gap ...
