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Comedians are having a heyday with outsourcing. Dubai Port World is the butt of jokes from both  Bill Maher and Jay Leno. Bill Maher described President Bush’s recent South Asia trip as an effort to avoid nuclear conflict in the region that could damage India as US jobs – (being done from India)- would beContinue reading “Outsourcing and comedians”

President Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush make their way to India  tomorrow. In India President Bush will visit New Delhi and Hyderabad before going to Islamabad, Pakistan. There was a lot of media attention with a wonderful piece by Fareed Zakaria on the Newsweek cover but surprisingly this is not the top story in theContinue reading “President Bush visiting India”

Ever since the announcement of Ford’s 30,000  job losses  and closure of 14 plants, I have been feeling intrigued. No one can argue that health costs per American car are high at $1500 per car. No one can also argue that net jobs in the Auto industry in the US are probably unchanged as ToyotaContinue reading “Why Ford looses US jobs and Toyota makes them up?”

I was just running out of interesting things to blog about when I read the Martin Wolk’s MSNBC  story about Google’s resistance to the Government subpoena for search records. The mere fact of protesting sends a strong signal to Google users as Wolk writes. Marketing theorists now agree unanimously that "trust" is a vital partContinue reading ““Don’t be evil” and Consumer Trust”

"Outsourcing" somehow continues to be a very charged kind of word. The public automatically associates it with "job losses" in the US. Therefore companies don’t want to talk about it and yet need to do it. I am trying to find articles that explore outsourcing savings with the rise of the DOW over the 11,000Continue reading “DOW crosses 11,000, the Geely Car and Sir Howard the SONY chief”

To learn that Brian Chase wrote the piece in Wikipedia (see below) as a joke was really encouraging. CNN reports that apparently Brian Chase did not know that Wikipedia is used for serious research and wanted to just fool around for his own very peculiar reasons. With this incident I think couple of great andContinue reading “Self Governance and the Web”

After a brief interlude involving the hectic end of semester activities I found myself snowed in today and watching C-SPAN from sometime after 9 am for the latter part of John Seigenthaler Sr. ‘s interview. The reason I stayed on the channel was the references that were being made to Wikipedia which I think isContinue reading “Wikipedia and answers on the web”

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”

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”

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”