Posted on March 24th, 2010 by
M. Ali Nasim
Can your outsourcing vendor really add value and bring insights and agility in to your business?… OR are you dead sure that they just need to be a sweat-shop enslaved in a tight contract and trained to follow the commands and deliver accordingly? My take on this: Just like some employees end up becoming strategic [...]
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Filed under: Agile Project Management, Enterprise Agility, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility, Outsourcing Advice
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by
Zohaib
Peace everyone. An established ‘dogma’ – If (outsourcing IT) then {Territory= South Asia}. India undoubtedly stands as the undisputed giant when it comes to IT resource outsourcing. Emerging markets like Pakistan, Bangladesh (and certain middle eastern countries) have yet to come anywhere near its exploits. While we all know these things, we seldom come across [...]
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Filed under: financial crisis, Global Technology Market, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility, Outsourcing Advice, World Economics
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
It was exactly five years ago Monday that Mozilla released version 1.0 of its open source Firefox Web browser, and fans around the globe marked the occasion with a multitude of special events held as part of the “Light the World with Firefox” campaign. Celebration ideas were plentiful at the Spread Firefox Web site, while [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Enterprise Agility, Global Technology Market, Google Chrome, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility, Search Engines, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Web Broswers, Web Browsing
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Peace, everyone. Please identify three basic reasons why you would NOT outsource your IT needs to any company, offshore or otherwise. Please keep in mind the current US crisis, and if possible, give your thoughts on how you feel the US IT sector can contribute to the economy, keeping your reservations in perspective. Good day, [...]
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Filed under: Enterprise Agility, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility
Posted on November 26th, 2008 by
M. Ali Nasim
Context Today, with companies and industries not merely competing but trying to eat each other up, clinging on to a single competitive advantage is no longer relevant! (Recall the AAA ratings of the financial behemoths that exist no more or are desperately eyeing the bailout? Does that ring the bell? Not just a bell, it has [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility, Uncategorized
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by
M. Ali Nasim
I came across a nice comprehensive comparison of the Captive and Outsourced business model in an article from Graham Russell, who leads Global Transaction Processing for pharma giant AstraZeneca. He has compared the pros and cons of each model as applicable to different indsutries, processes and business scenarios. My stance on the topic is: Based on how things have changed [...]
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Filed under: Commercial Models for Agile Outsourcing, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Outsourcing & Agility, Outsourcing Advice, Vendor Relationship
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by
admin
“Virtualization”, a buzz-word used for optimization / maximization of resource utilization for hardware, networks and applications. However, I would like to discuss another aspect of virtualization which I would term as “Human Resource Virtualization (HRV)”. Sitting in my office (with a team of highly energetic professionals, thousands of miles away from the destinations where their [...]
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Filed under: Communication, Enterprise Agility, IT/BPO Bundled Services, Vendor Relationship
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