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How to Choose a Reliable Partner for Offshoring

CEO Insider

While running an operations service company for software R&D centers in Ukraine, I’ve seen enough companies fail to properly set up teams abroad at the beginning. Vendors who lacked transparency and/or couldn’t live up to contractual expectations were usually to blame.

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A Visa for Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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The Next Wave of Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Are You Prepared for the Unintended Consequences of Cloud Computing?

Harvard Business Review

In these days of temporary and consultant-heavy workforces, offshoring and outsourcing, a younger, technologically adept generation, and the plummeting cost of data storage, you would have to be pretty confident that you had an ace security team on the job to protect your sensitive data.

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Can You Live Without a Data Scientist?

Harvard Business Review

The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. Three Questions to Ask Your Advanced-Analytics Team. The big analytics providers, including Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM, are all gearing up on the topic, and there are a variety of boutique firms that have formed. More >>.