Wednesday, May 11, 2005

A company immune to overseas outsourcing?. There's one U.S. company that the Indian service giants don't want to take on, and that's Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the pay check king, said Jessie Paul, head of marketing... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] well. i guess that means that all 278 million americans can safely figure that when the rest of the world is as materialistic and paycheck bound to their ear buds as we are, we will be the paycheck KINGS and QUEENS of the planet... boy - now that gives me the warm fuzzies!! 7:47:04 PM    comment []

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Internet Cuts Need for Bike Messengers (AP). AP - Bicycle messengers once crowded downtown traffic to deliver court papers, business documents and blueprints. Today, only one such company and one lone courier pump along on any given workday in Maine's biggest city. [Yahoo! News: Technology] would be interesting to compare job gain/job loss from the bicycle messengers to today.  factoring in speed and the increased willingnes to send things fast, as well as the safety of communicating virtually vs physically delivering a message, I bet the overall impact, is well, pretty good. 7:47:23 PM    comment [] Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? 7:29:02 PM    comment [] Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? 7:28:56 PM    comment []

Monday, May 02, 2005

Starting up with offshore help. Does starting up a software firm with offshore help leave U.S. techies behind? Not according to Persistent Systems, a fast-growing Indian company that assists software companies... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] This article makes the same underlaying assumption - - that America's contribution to the equation will  always be an understanding of the American consumer.  But, that consumer of the past is NOT going to be the consumer of the future.  Quickest example that comes to mind?  My kids and me.  My consumer needs at their age was abouth clothes, music, STUFF.  Theirs?  Internet service and online game software.  While they like trendy clothes, it isn't the same as the stuff drivers that I had. 3:47:09 PM    comment [] Offshore nations have reason to worry too. A provocative essay today by Morgan Stanley's chief economist makes clear that the Asian nations striking fear into many U.S. techies' hearts have plenty to be scared of themselves... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] Seems like this happens to me, or more likely to the flow of information a lot.  A topic, in this case offshoring of jobs and the American consumer as spender as unemployed, etc.  seems to be the topic this week.  There is a pattern to this stuff.  Now, to figure out if it is a) pervasive, b)targeted to what I read or c) just an observation that I make... not likely to be the latter but I may see it earlier ( by that I mean a day or two) that people who aren't reading the same kind of stuff I aggregate... But then, that would be option d) how and what I aggregate.  3:43:48 PM    comment []

Thursday, April 14, 2005

http://news.com.com/2061-1_3-5671108.html?part=rss&;tag=feed&subj=news interesting prediction about the impact of offshore fraud at Citicorp having a seriously negative effect on BPO offshoring... That and the fact that Americans are looking for a reason to back out of that IMHO.  We don't play nice with others, unfortunately. 8:12:27 PM    comment []

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Indian call center workers charged with Citibank fraud. Former employees of a call center in Pune, India, were arrested this week on charges of defrauding four account holders in New York of Citibank, a subsidiary of Citigroup, to the tune of $300,000, according to a police official in Pune. [InfoWorld: Top News] Oops - - seems like a pretty big hole left there... Don't the same procedures apply offsource as on shore to prevent this kind of fraud? 7:22:24 PM    comment []

Friday, April 01, 2005

The next big offshorer?. Could San Francisco-based Freeborders be the most important outsourcer you've never heard of? The company is aiming to be the biggest operation in China providing application... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] 9:36:16 PM    comment [] Offshoring jobs or adding jobs offshore?. The offshoring debate is often framed as a zero-sum game, but that's probably too simplistic a view. Consider chip designer Rambus, for example. The Los Altos, Calif.-based... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] 9:35:50 PM    comment [] The flight to India. Next time you dial United Airlines to inquire about standby room, your call might be routed to someone an 18-hour flight away. The Chicago-based carrier, fighting... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] 9:35:18 PM    comment [] An offshoring tidal wave to come?. A recent InformationWeek article offers a dizzying statistic about the scale of offshoring over the next decade. The story says a forthcoming report from research... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] 9:34:59 PM    comment []

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Financials Worth Endorsing. In the payroll business, synergy seems to work. Just ask Paychex. [The Motley Fool] Hmm- healthy in this business??  Good management perhaps?  Shouldn't be that hard, huh? 12:22:49 PM    comment []

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