Over the weekend and after a great Thanksgiving I found myself at Barnes and Noble browsing Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich last night. Morning searches on the Internet revealed that Barbara has her blog and the book seems to be timely for my course on Global Outsourcing. In the book Barbara makes the pointContinue reading “Bait and Switch”
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Avian Flu and “Fire Blanket”
The Meet the Press discussion on NBC today on the Avian Flu in South East Asia set me thinking about globalization in a different sort of way. Apparently we are 3-5 years from building a vaccine manufacturing capacity. After we do so – the 300 million US population will be able to be vaccinated inContinue reading “Avian Flu and “Fire Blanket””
Good Legal Advice for Providers
I was still in my "legal" mind frame when I noticed a great article by John Gliedman in Computer World. Obviously John knows what he’s talking about and I think the points he makes are really interesting. In fact I have academic papers on some of these points. For example, issue 4 about who ownsContinue reading “Good Legal Advice for Providers”
Legal Process Outsourcing-LPO
You can hire a very smart lawyer in India for about 700$ a month compared to the 350$ per hour you need to pay for a similar lawyer in the US. The tasks are myriad that can be done from overseas and these are called "LPO". Tasks could include, patent searches, research into history ofContinue reading “Legal Process Outsourcing-LPO”
More IT Jobs with Outsourcing ?
Contrary to popular opinion in the US a study commissioned by the Information Technology Association of America and conducted by Global Insight suggests that IT outsourcing has added 257,042 U.S. jobs this year. The executive summary of the Global Insight report makes interesting reading. Particularly one recommendation of teaching multiple skills to current tertiary studentsContinue reading “More IT Jobs with Outsourcing ?”
My CAPM Workshop
On October 25th I presented the workshop on "Global Outsourcing of knowledge based services" at CAPM. The presentation was further developed from the earlier ISM presentation (see outsourcer section of http://www.stratoserve.com) for the older slides. I needed to develop my talk further for this very special audience of CAPM who like the entire ISM/NAPM communityContinue reading “My CAPM Workshop”
Maintenance Outsourcing in Aerospace Industry
Come to think of it most folks take the car to the garage and let the mechanic handle it. In fact, as the auto parts aftermarket folk will tell you – the key influencer in the replacement market brand choice is the garage mechanic. The same seems to apply to the airlines business. Qantas theContinue reading “Maintenance Outsourcing in Aerospace Industry”
How Babe Ruth felt
The article on "People Issues" reminded me of how Babe Ruth must have felt when he was "sold" to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox. The "Curse of the Bambino" lasted 86 years and there is a blog entirely devoted to the curse. To avoid being cursed by IT star employees who are "sold"Continue reading “How Babe Ruth felt”
Now Airbus outsources
If Boeing gets parts of the work done overseas can Airbus be far behind? Well no, The St. Petersburg Times reports from Frankfurt that Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert plans to keep 30% of the "core competence" in-house while 70% of the work will be done by providers in Russia,China and India. In fact, outsourcing workContinue reading “Now Airbus outsources”
Electricity Trading and Distribution
While Econometricians have studied the distribution of electricity- marketing scholars seem to have been more comfortable in studying the distribution of soap,chips and soda. : "Soap is simply more glamorous than electricity" both my academic and practitioner friends in marketing affirm. Anyhow the importance of distributing electricity comes to sharp focus when electricity becomes uncertainContinue reading “Electricity Trading and Distribution”