Wrigley is relocating a factory that produces Altoids mints from Wales to Tennessee. I wonder if this will start a new trend: companies strengthening American operations. Or does this move have to do more with Wales being a poor ...READ»
The authors of a new book, The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges and Opportunities, predict that the top five countries to benefit from outsourcing -- and offshoring -- are:
China
India
USA
Russia ...READ»
A new GAO study released last week indicates that while offshoring of U.S. jobs may be on the rise, there are still very few accurate means to measure the resulting gains and losses for the American economy. The 80-page report ...READ»
Well, here's a new one.
Pretty much every morning, my email inbox teams with messages from around the globe seeking my assistance. The sister-in-law of the fifth son of a deposed Ugandan minister wants me to park a few mill. Or a ...READ»
Previously, Shasha commented on the outsourcing of prayers and soldiering. This morning's New York Times takes a look at another instance: the outsourcing of summer camp counselors.
Andy Newman considers the growing trend of ...READ»
I was among the tens of thousands of people packing FDR Drive in New York on the night of July 4 to watch the annual Macy's fireworks display. The 30-minute show of red, blue, white, lemon, silver, and emerald green lights that ...READ»
There has been some interesting discussion on my previous blog entry about outsourcing to India. FC Now reader "M" comments:
what are we gonna outsource next? the president..well that might not be such a bad idea. no offense, but ...READ»
We've heard a lot about American companies farming out programming, call center or back-office work to India. But we may be less aware of the offshoring of other jobs -- such as clergymen and soldiers.
With Roman Catholic clergy in ...READ»
Earlier this week, I received a news release about John Jasper, CEO of SEI Information Technology. Opening with the sentence, "John Jasper doesn't apologize for his firm's service facility in Debrecen, Hungary," the release contains ...READ»
KnowledgeStorm recently released a research paper on offshoring with AlignIT. Entitled "Corporate IT Spending and Offshore Services," the report takes an industry-by-industry look at offshoring and examines IT budget trends for ...READ»
The April issue of Fast Company features a cover story about offshoring's impact on the people whose jobs are sent overseas. Later this week, we'll offer several Web exclusives to accompany the cover story, including an interview ...READ»
FC Now reader Tom Asacker makes an interesting remark in response to an entry yesterday.
Who says it's primarily large multinationals outsourcing work overseas?
In 1993 I outsourced the production of a $100k tool for an injection ...READ»
Practically everyone in business is talking about offshoring. Fast Company is. CFO is. CNN is. Fortune is.
And now, Tom Peters is. While his roundup of 17 observations about offshoring aren't that new or different, one nugget did ...READ»
We've put an early look at our February 2004 Next opener, Offshore Storm: The Global Razor's Edge, online. IBM may send 4,730 white-collar jobs to India and China. Another 14 million could follow.
14 million. John's addressed this ...READ»
Alternet's Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark have one answer: white collars get white hot. In an article yesterday entitled "White-Collar Anger," Danaher and Mark take a look at the increasingly populist uprising among a new labor class ...READ»
Fast Company's long-time friend Tom Peters offers some very good advice to survive the ongoing migration of white-collar jobs to India, China and elsewhere.
In his new book, Re-imagine!, the author of one of our most famous cover ...READ»
