Aug
18
India – The Buck Stops Here
August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Brutal cost-cutting have taken a bite out of the Big Apple and knocked some numbers of Big Ben as banks and financial firms in New York and London are now farming out data-intensive tasks to lower-cost regions, primarily to the biggest region of them all: India.
Aug
15
Outsourcing and the Olympics : The Links
August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The whole world’s attention is glued to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing where nations cheer as their athletes compete with other athletes to achieve the rare, golden prestige.
Nations, their athletic representatives, compete with each other to bring home the gold.
Seems familiar?
There are comparisons that can be noted between the current situation of outsourcing business with the modern Olympic Games which has been around for 108 years.
Aug
12
Outsourcing : Power Plays
August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Today’s global fuel crisis is affecting how business is done in a bad way.
As fuel costs rise, so does the cost of living for any individual residing and working in a major metropolitan area– enterprises have to attend to their employees’ pleas for salary increase, as well as attend to costs in materials, transportation, facilities and power costs.
Aug
7
Multinational of One
August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The world’s shrinking, in a manner of speaking.
If we look at the trend of end-products of technological advancement, we could almost say that the size that matters is small.
And it’s not only our gadgets that are getting smaller. The way we live, the way we work, the way we can do business is being refined to a point where we can do more with less effort. Doing small things can lead to big results.
Much in the same way how small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as private individuals are doing what the big firms and multinational companies can do, to draw on the talents and skills of the human resources from any corner of the planet through the Internet.
Welcome to the age of Myself, Co. and Yourself, Inc.,—-the one-man (and one-woman) multinationals.
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