BP Outsourcing
Cognizant Global Experiment in the Collaborosphere Pays Off
As many of you know, I spent the first half of my career in the IT space tracking the IT services sector. The business of large-scale systems integrators and outsourcers wasn’t always thrilling, but boy-oh-boy, did those firms rake in the big bucks. Contracts weren’t even worth mentioning if they didn’t register in the hundreds [...]
Fun with Outsourcing…
Saw this on an outsourcing discussion group and had to share… They’re talking about outsourcing architectural drawings to India. Re: Paris?? so which projects you do can you send me a detail list in email so that we can mutually understand and exchange some projects.. Reply From: CB Date: Nov/17/06 – 20:05 (GMT) [...]
¡Ay, caramba! Blogging is work.
I’ve been posting on the new ZDNet blog. They tell me it’s live, but there’s a glitch in the technology that is preventing it from showing up in the blog roll. You can view it here. I’m very interested in off-beat IT Services stories, so please email me (susanATitservicesadvisoryDOTcom) with any interesting ideas.
Hot Topic: Back to Backlash
I was reading Vinnie’s blog and he mentioned Tom Davenport’s pooh-poohing. When I returned to the business this year, and went to my first outsourcing conference in 5 years (see 3/30 post), Davenport was the keynote speaker. He was an excellent speaker and connected easily with the audience. As a matter of fact, he was [...]
Trust, Communications, Relationship-management…
Frank Casale invited me to co-moderate a workshop yesterday at his Outsourcing Institute NYC Roadshow on "Outsourcing's Bad Rap: Playing Politics." Throughout the day, although the outsourcing market has changed so much over the past ten years, I heard the recurring themes of trust, communications, and old-fashioned relationship management. Buyers and sellers all have their [...]
The World is Flatulent
So I went to my first outsourcing conference this week in New York after five years. If I hear one more reference to Mr. Friedman's book, I'm going to start to become disrespectful. Can we please move on to the next pop business fad? There was even an Indian offshore company raffling off the book [...]
