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Outsourcing and Offshoring are Loaded Terms 30 May, 2008 14:32:56
What’s in a word?To outsource or not - it's a serious business decision. But the problem is that words carry baggage, and none more so than the word 'outsource'. - +
Outsourcing to the Middle East 13 March, 2008 12:16:38
The business park phenomenon proliferates, as cheap IT labor communities keep cropping up in emerging marketsAs globalization continues to blanket the world and companies continue to look for geographies where they can get IT work done for less, the latest find appears to be the Middle East. - +
On Off, Off On 06 August, 2007 12:20:17
Our intrepid traveller considers resorting — literally — to offshoringI have just returned from a fact-finding mission about moving our IT operations offshore - +
A Shore Thing 06 March, 2007 12:18:08
More CIOs will say “Sure” to offshoringIt is inevitable that there will be more IT offshoring in this country. That was my conclusion after a recent series of roundtables on the topic with local IT executives. - +
Caveat Emptor! 05 September, 2006 09:00:00
While cutting costs by outsourcing internal IT processes to contractors as far away as India or Eastern Europe may offer significant cost advantages, the savings can prove illusory if the company doesn't recognize and actively manage the risks involvedManaging the risks of offshore IT outsourcing - +
Looking Out; Looking In 08 March, 2005 09:42:16
So there's no such thing as a totally outsourced enterprise IT department yet. In fact, although IT is shrinking in some respects, it's also expanding into new areas. So as you outsource in some domains, you can actually insource new territory.Outsource what makes sense, but create some new internal opportunities for yourself. - +
Howard seizes control of ICT agenda 19 April, 2004 11:41:26
With only months until a federal election, Prime Minister John Howard is understood to have brought the strategic control of Australia's telecommunications and IT policies back under the wing of his department. - +
The Dangers of Outsourcing (and What to Do About Them) 10 March, 2004 13:04:36
Sourcing deals are risky, and some of the biggest risks are not visible in the rose-coloured days leading up to deal consummationYou may have just inked a fabulous outsourcing deal. But as the CTO of the Red Cross has learned, you have to be prepared for the endgame - +
What Goes On Behind Your Back 10 March, 2004 12:35:25
Line managers frequently - and understandably - have radically different perceptions from the executives at the corporate pinnacle of what process, products and programs are at their business coreYour company may outsource IT, but your business units will build their own IT systems anyway. Here's how to make sure you stay in the loop - +
Trouble Offshore 06 February, 2004 10:20:31
And I know I’m gonna take it on the chin, nose or shin for this missive, but I think it’s time someone, somewhere, adds a voice of reason to the hullabaloo about offshore outsourcing, and offshoring to India specificallyI know I'm gonna take it on the chin, nose or shin for this missive, but I think it's time someone, somewhere, adds a voice of reason to the hullabaloo about offshore outsourcing, and offshoring to India specifically. - +
A Memo from the Future 06 February, 2004 09:35:04
What does productivity mean when support requests that should never take more than two e-mails inevitably take five because of language problems?Six years from now, CIOs may have their heads handed to them - unless they play their cards right
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
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