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See Also: Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement. Approach #1: Offer many solutions. Get a mile wide but an inch deep. Provide tons of features that may (or may not) work, look forward to add more. Approach #2: Offer one solution. Get an inch wide but a mile deep. Provide only a few features that will always work, look forward to make those features better. MORE
Petrobras put about $200 million into one of its first deep wells far offshore of Brazil. For an oil well, say, and depending on how deep your hole is, it could take a month. It could take 3 months. It can take six months. For some of the deeper stuff, it can take a year to drill these wells. MORE
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Are You An Offshore Software Project Manager From India? “I just don’t understand why we’re NOT using latest version of the programming language to build this software application. By the time we will finish building this application, this version of language will be out of beta and released,” the programmer showed his disappointment. Okay, does current version of the language you’re using solve your client’s business problems?” The newly assigned project manager asked. MORE
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Held every year on Boxing Day - the day after Christmas - this 628-nautical-mile, (723-statute-mile) deepwater challenge is often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing. The Sydney to Hobart Race is unknown to many Americans, but it is an iconic event for Australians. With unpredictable weather and seas, the Sydney to Hobart Race is considered one of the toughest in the world. It is always a challenging race. But in 1998, conditions were extraordinary. Extraordinarily dangerous. MORE
Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. When asked how satisfied they were with the overall performance of their offshore operations, 83% of them said that they were either satisfied or highly satisfied. Nearly 65% of them indicated their intent to increase the scale of their offshore operations by 15% in the next two to three years. MORE
She was struck by their ability to execute a seamless recovery: “The first offshore race I did with the Ramblers lit a fire as to why I wanted to join them as a team member. The following is a guest piece by author Dennis N.T. Perkins and Jillian B. Murphy. MORE
Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? Your business consistently gets more leads than your current business capacity; No matter with which project team your customers interact, their delight level is almost the same; You take 4 week summer vacation and do not get any ‘urgent’ call from the office; You have generally happy employees. MORE
Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Forward-looking companies see outsourcing and offshoring as tools to achieve strategic objectives such as scale, flexibility, and access to talent, resources and new markets — not just lower costs. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets. MORE
By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad. MORE
Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? Your business consistently gets more leads than your current business capacity; No matter with which project team your customers interact, their delight level is almost the same; You take 4 week summer vacation and do not get any ‘urgent’ call from the office; You have generally happy employees. MORE
Thousands of sorta adequate [ fill in the programming language ] developers have lost their jobs because management decided it was cheaper — and just as effective — to send commodity app development offshore. MORE
6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8% MORE
Share and Enjoy: See Also: Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? 10 Signs You Are Happy At Work by Utpal Vaishnav on March 5, 2010 You never drag your feet but ready to run in pace with your goals. MORE
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Actually, there are three: o In person, fireworks launched from a barge offshore Martha’s Vineyard o Also in person, following Arthur Fiedler’s last performance with the Boston Pops in a park along the Charles River on July 4, 1976 o A fireworks display filmed in China To see the display in China, please click here. […]. bobmorris Arthur Fiedler''s last performance with the Boston Pops offshore Oak Bluffs on Martha''s Vineyard The best fireworks display I have ever seen MORE
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Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the […]. MORE
The hype around robots taking jobs is reaching a crescendo, in response to an insightful new book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, as well as an Oxford Martin School study: ‘ The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? ‘ The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. MORE
Standing barefoot and bare-chested in a moonlit tidal pool, the muscular Hawaiian watched the fat man approach, carrying a canvas backpack, slipping on the wet rocks as the roiling surf crashed offshore. The fat man yelled something but was drowned out by the thunderclap of a wave against the volcanic shelf. From Riptide by Paul Levine MORE
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An excerpt: Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself was becoming more of a nation-state and less an offshore dependency of Europe, an extraordinary committee of clergymen and scholars completed the task of rendering the Old and New Testaments into English, and claimed that the result was the “Authorized” or “King James” version. MORE
’ By rationalising supply chains, implementing technology, offshoring and outsourcing, companies have experiences a golden decade of ever-increasing profitability. MORE
There are offshore markets to explore too. One of the major problems faced by business owners all over the world is knowing when to let go. There are plenty of reasons why. MORE
The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. MORE
See Also: Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement. She was managing one of the most important projects of the company for past 26 months. One day, the junior most team member asked her if he was smart, she said, “No”. He asked him again if he thinks that he wanted to have him in her team, she said “No”. Then he asked him if there’ll be any loss to the team if he stops coming to the work, she said “No”. MORE
Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? by Utpal Vaishnav on October 18, 2009 (Photo Credit: CarbonNYC's Flickr photostream) One of my good friends runs a small 40 people Offshore Software Solutions Agency based in India. MORE
Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the [.]. MORE
Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Similarly, companies must be more forceful in explaining the uses of revenues and margins derived from offshoring/outsourcing's competitive cost structures and local appeal. MORE
Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. MORE
Four Causes Of Poor Performance (And What You Can Do About Some Of Those) by Utpal Vaishnav on October 26, 2009 As a manager you must have dealt with poor-performance. MORE
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GPP prides themselves on producing and procuring the highest quality precision machined products through their domestic facilities and offshore joint ventures. Global Precision Parts (GPP) was established in 2006 as a combination of 3 manufacturing companies located in Ottoville and East Liberty, Ohio and Wabash, Indiana. MORE
On the first night of the race, three of the crew members were hunched over a chart debating the relative merits of taking a tack offshore. Survive Your Promotion! MORE
Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement by Utpal Vaishnav on September 4, 2009 Do not allow enough time to put systems in place. Expect that offshore team members are not human but machines who can work for 25 hours a day. MORE
If there is a trend to moving offshore then there are markets for things like ESL, accent correction, communication process and systems. Moving offshore would need to be done efficiently so a focus on making it frictionless. I continue to blog at # WIF11. S.Kishnan was the first speaker. He is the author of The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks. His view is the increasing communication is changing the way innovation happens. MORE
Manage Projects By Leveraging Your People’s Happiness by Utpal Vaishnav on September 18, 2009 People’s tendency is to do what give them happiness and to be reluctant of what give them pain. American Psychologist Hull says that: Happiness or pain comes quickly after the behavior. MORE
Since they were first published on April 3, the Panama Papers have thrust a spotlight onto world politicians, celebrities, and businesses sheltering money offshore. It also created an academic windfall: the opportunity to study the real financial impact of offshore vehicles. MORE
million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore tax havens. It’s being billed as possibly the “largest journalism collaboration in history.” For the past 15 months, nearly 100 reporters from media outlets around the world, working in collaboration with the International Center for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have analyzed about 2.5 The effort aimed to expose the “hidden dealings of politicians, con artists, and the mega-rich in more than 170 countries.”. MORE
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Guest post from Angela Sebaly: A recent Harvard Business Review article examined Shell Corporation’s adoption of an 18-month program designed to help the company’s offshore workers give and receive feedback before their upcoming deployment. MORE
Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research. MORE
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OCTOBER 9, 2009
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JULY 4, 2014
Actually, there are three: o In person, fireworks launched from a barge offshore Martha’s Vineyard o Also in person, following Arthur Fiedler’s last performance with the Boston Pops in a park along the Charles River on July 4, 1976 o A fireworks display filmed in China To see the display in China, please click here. […]. bobmorris Arthur Fiedler''s last performance with the Boston Pops offshore Oak Bluffs on Martha''s Vineyard The best fireworks display I have ever seen
Crossderry Blog
APRIL 11, 2011
Thousands of sorta adequate [ fill in the programming language ] developers have lost their jobs because management decided it was cheaper — and just as effective — to send commodity app development offshore.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2014
Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research.
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JUNE 24, 2013
Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the […].
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APRIL 30, 2013
Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the [.].
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2011
Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Forward-looking companies see outsourcing and offshoring as tools to achieve strategic objectives such as scale, flexibility, and access to talent, resources and new markets — not just lower costs. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 13, 2013
Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. When asked how satisfied they were with the overall performance of their offshore operations, 83% of them said that they were either satisfied or highly satisfied. Nearly 65% of them indicated their intent to increase the scale of their offshore operations by 15% in the next two to three years.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 12, 2014
The hype around robots taking jobs is reaching a crescendo, in response to an insightful new book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, as well as an Oxford Martin School study: ‘ The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? ‘ The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2013
million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore tax havens. It’s being billed as possibly the “largest journalism collaboration in history.” For the past 15 months, nearly 100 reporters from media outlets around the world, working in collaboration with the International Center for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have analyzed about 2.5 The effort aimed to expose the “hidden dealings of politicians, con artists, and the mega-rich in more than 170 countries.”.
C-Level Strategies
AUGUST 26, 2017
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Execupundit
DECEMBER 31, 2011
Standing barefoot and bare-chested in a moonlit tidal pool, the muscular Hawaiian watched the fat man approach, carrying a canvas backpack, slipping on the wet rocks as the roiling surf crashed offshore. The fat man yelled something but was drowned out by the thunderclap of a wave against the volcanic shelf. From Riptide by Paul Levine
Execupundit
MARCH 5, 2013
Held every year on Boxing Day - the day after Christmas - this 628-nautical-mile, (723-statute-mile) deepwater challenge is often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing. The Sydney to Hobart Race is unknown to many Americans, but it is an iconic event for Australians. With unpredictable weather and seas, the Sydney to Hobart Race is considered one of the toughest in the world. It is always a challenging race. But in 1998, conditions were extraordinary. Extraordinarily dangerous.
Execupundit
JUNE 6, 2011
Petrobras put about $200 million into one of its first deep wells far offshore of Brazil. For an oil well, say, and depending on how deep your hole is, it could take a month. It could take 3 months. It can take six months. For some of the deeper stuff, it can take a year to drill these wells.
Six Disciplines
APRIL 21, 2011
GPP prides themselves on producing and procuring the highest quality precision machined products through their domestic facilities and offshore joint ventures. Global Precision Parts (GPP) was established in 2006 as a combination of 3 manufacturing companies located in Ottoville and East Liberty, Ohio and Wabash, Indiana.
CEO Blog
JUNE 8, 2011
If there is a trend to moving offshore then there are markets for things like ESL, accent correction, communication process and systems. Moving offshore would need to be done efficiently so a focus on making it frictionless. I continue to blog at # WIF11. S.Kishnan was the first speaker. He is the author of The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks. His view is the increasing communication is changing the way innovation happens.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 5, 2015
There are offshore markets to explore too. One of the major problems faced by business owners all over the world is knowing when to let go. There are plenty of reasons why.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 22, 2017
Guest post from Angela Sebaly: A recent Harvard Business Review article examined Shell Corporation’s adoption of an 18-month program designed to help the company’s offshore workers give and receive feedback before their upcoming deployment.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 15, 2017
By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 14, 2017
CFS International Formations offer a trademark search on their website for those interested in offshore company formation. Starting a company will never be easy, especially if you are new to the business scene.
Execupundit
APRIL 3, 2011
An excerpt: Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself was becoming more of a nation-state and less an offshore dependency of Europe, an extraordinary committee of clergymen and scholars completed the task of rendering the Old and New Testaments into English, and claimed that the result was the “Authorized” or “King James” version.
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APRIL 2, 2013
She was struck by their ability to execute a seamless recovery: “The first offshore race I did with the Ramblers lit a fire as to why I wanted to join them as a team member. The following is a guest piece by author Dennis N.T. Perkins and Jillian B. Murphy.
Utpal Writes
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
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Utpal Writes
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement by Utpal Vaishnav on September 4, 2009 Do not allow enough time to put systems in place. Expect that offshore team members are not human but machines who can work for 25 hours a day.
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JUNE 23, 2011
6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8%
Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2016
Since they were first published on April 3, the Panama Papers have thrust a spotlight onto world politicians, celebrities, and businesses sheltering money offshore. It also created an academic windfall: the opportunity to study the real financial impact of offshore vehicles.
Survive Your Promotion
APRIL 12, 2010
On the first night of the race, three of the crew members were hunched over a chart debating the relative merits of taking a tack offshore. Survive Your Promotion!
Utpal Writes
APRIL 21, 2012
Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement. What should our software application offer? How can we provide that amazing experience to our customers? It’s about creating that awesome user experience. Actually, It’s about creating value, isn’t it? and ROI too. Need to do something that we haven’t offered, let’s make an iPhone app! What do customers want? …but, do they know?
Utpal Writes
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Disaster-Prone Business Organizations 30 7 Acts of Poor Managers Who Gift Cancer To Their People, Their Clients and Their Businesses Are You An Offshore Software Project Manager From India?
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world.
Utpal Writes
MARCH 21, 2011
Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? Your business consistently gets more leads than your current business capacity; No matter with which project team your customers interact, their delight level is almost the same; You take 4 week summer vacation and do not get any ‘urgent’ call from the office; You have generally happy employees.
Utpal Writes
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
See Also: Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement. She was managing one of the most important projects of the company for past 26 months. One day, the junior most team member asked her if he was smart, she said, “No”. He asked him again if he thinks that he wanted to have him in her team, she said “No”. Then he asked him if there’ll be any loss to the team if he stops coming to the work, she said “No”.
Utpal Writes
APRIL 3, 2012
See Also: Twenty Traits Of Software Project Sponsors Who Have The Power To Screw-up An Offshore Outsourcing Engagement. Approach #1: Offer many solutions. Get a mile wide but an inch deep. Provide tons of features that may (or may not) work, look forward to add more. Approach #2: Offer one solution. Get an inch wide but a mile deep. Provide only a few features that will always work, look forward to make those features better.
Utpal Writes
MARCH 5, 2010
Share and Enjoy: See Also: Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? 10 Signs You Are Happy At Work by Utpal Vaishnav on March 5, 2010 You never drag your feet but ready to run in pace with your goals.
Utpal Writes
MARCH 21, 2011
Do You Manage Your Offshore Software Solutions Business This Way? Your business consistently gets more leads than your current business capacity; No matter with which project team your customers interact, their delight level is almost the same; You take 4 week summer vacation and do not get any ‘urgent’ call from the office; You have generally happy employees.
Talent Technologies
AUGUST 9, 2010
’ By rationalising supply chains, implementing technology, offshoring and outsourcing, companies have experiences a golden decade of ever-increasing profitability.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2010
Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore.
Utpal Writes
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Four Causes Of Poor Performance (And What You Can Do About Some Of Those) by Utpal Vaishnav on October 26, 2009 As a manager you must have dealt with poor-performance.
Utpal Writes
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Are You An Offshore Software Project Manager From India? “I just don’t understand why we’re NOT using latest version of the programming language to build this software application. By the time we will finish building this application, this version of language will be out of beta and released,” the programmer showed his disappointment. Okay, does current version of the language you’re using solve your client’s business problems?” The newly assigned project manager asked.
Utpal Writes
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Manage Projects By Leveraging Your People’s Happiness by Utpal Vaishnav on September 18, 2009 People’s tendency is to do what give them happiness and to be reluctant of what give them pain. American Psychologist Hull says that: Happiness or pain comes quickly after the behavior.
Utpal Writes
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
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Utpal Writes
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
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