Nearshore Journal

By DIONNE SEARCEY
They’re the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen.
Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he’s demanding that some of the world’s top Web [...]

- Summary introduction of Care Economics. An analysis of the key management ideas, concepts and practices driving service globalization (outsourcing) over the first leg (last 10 years), and the major forces, trends and practices to master in the second leg, for service provider and captive location success.
- Comparative cost and demographic rating and attractiveness [...]

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Coming to you from The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Boston, we’ve assembled a panel to explore a new military aircraft systems interoperability consortium and effort, the Future Airborne Capability Environment [...]

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As more services, applications, and data are developed for — and delivered via — cloud models, how do business to business (B2B) commerce and procurement adapt?
Or, perhaps we have the cart in front of [...]

Key Issues in Selecting a Vendor Partner
Roxanna Wall
UBS AG
Description:
Roxanna Wall is Executive Director at UBS AG where she is Americas Regional Lead for Group Outsourcing & Offshoring. This team, a part of Corporate Development, is responsible for working with business and functional leaders across UBS to define and drive outsourcing and offshoring related strategies to [...]

This guest blog comes courtesy of Dr. Chris Harding, who leads the Cloud Computing Working Group at The Open Group. He can be reached at c.harding@opengroup.org.

By Chris Harding
History has many examples of invaders wielding steel swords, repeating rifles, or whatever the latest weapon may be, driving out people who are less well-equipped. Corporate IT [...]

Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, Ltd., explains how inverting the management pyramid leads to superior organizational performance. He is the author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.
Source: http://blogs.hbr.org