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			<title><![CDATA[Collaboration 2.0 - A book review]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1480</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While not news for many of us, much of what is driving the developments in Collaboration and the developments in collaboration tools is the necessity to create a Virtual Team space (VTS).  Early in the book the authors define 10 trends in collaboration, the most interesting to me is ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Emmy Gengler]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Cool Tools&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:26:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Review - Offshoring Secrets]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1459</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Offshoring Secrets – Building &amp; Running a Successful India Operation  Author: Utkarsh Rai   Paperback: 160 pages   Publisher: Happy About (August 22, 2007) In recent years I have read a number of books about offshoring, outsourcing, offshoring to specific geographical locations, etc. Offshoring Secrets falls in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:44:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&quot;Managing Without Walls&quot; - A review]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1427</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The case for many workers in the US and around the world is that they have been working in virtual environments for some time now. The virtual environments may vary; from completely virtual where the person is working independently from home or a small office and rarely sees the people ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Emmy Gengler]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:25:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virtual Team management - a book review]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1421</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Managing Virtual teams is becoming more and more the hot topic in the project management world, as outsourcing continues to grow. I thought I would share with you a book I read recently which I believe can assist Virtual Team managers, while not the most recent book, it is from ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Emmy Gengler]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:59:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Good review of the results of Outsourcing at Sun]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1410</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For those who may be interested, the latest issue of the InnerCircle newsletter from Sun Microsystems has an interview with Matthew Ricks, the Sr. Director of Vendor Management for Sun, entitled:  "Lessons Learned from Sun’s Outsourcing Initiatives".  While not necessarily containing anything earth shattering, it does give good ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Emmy Gengler]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[ADM / IT&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:06:45 -0700</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1410</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Software as a Service (SaaS) projects be done offshore?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1408</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometime I get these incredulous looks from people when I tell them that we are able to do SaaS (Software as a Service) projects offshore, and not only the software development portion, but we involve offshore resources from the very beginning of any transition to SaaS project.  There is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:32:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Visit the Offshore Location or do an Actual Project?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1406</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Often I hear from people that they will never work with someone before they have an opportunity to meet with them in person. Some people have always worked this way; they like to build a relationship before working together. If it is possible to do this great; but in the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:30:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Offshore: Server access for your remote team or not?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1380</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For many companies, the question that stands before them is not whether outsourcing is for them or not; they already know they need it. But rather the question is whether or not to give access to a remote team located in another country. The question may come up whether or ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 09:23:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Globalization Officer]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1374</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was reading an article in Global Services magazine, "The Quest for a Chief Globalization Officer." It brought up a couple of thoughts for me. First, I am wondering if anyone else knows of any other companies that have successfully created the position of "Globalization Officer." As the article ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[new pricing models for outsourcing agreements]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1371</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have seen this a couple of times lately, most recently in a Whitepaper on Outsourcing 2.0 from the Outsourcing Institute, that outsourcing vendors and clients need to work out new pricing models. Something that the industry has not seen yet, something to better serve the industry. I have thought ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPO&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 13:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Managing your offshore team – Do you use a manager from your own company or from]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1349</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Back to the question of who is best to manage your offshore team (Assumes you have a dedicated team that works only with your company, the same as your in-house team, but sitting in the offices of your outsourcing vendor, in another country.).Reasons you may want to outsource project coordination ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:23:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ukraine's share of the Global Outsourcing pie]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1347</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine itself received a small review in the Outsourcing press recently:  http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199100580The good news is the numbers for 2006, the size of the software exports market is now at $280 million (this figure includes both software licensing and services though).  The article looked at only a couple of ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:41:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eastern Europe garners media attention as an Outsourcing Destination]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1341</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Eastern Europe or more accurately Central Europe garnered media attention today in the form of a New York Times article:  Eastern Europe Becomes a Center for Outsourcing - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/business/worldbusiness/19prague.htmlThe focus is on the Central European countries of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, etc., with examples from Accenture and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:56:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Managing your offshore team – Do you use a manager from your own company or from]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1331</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Before setting up an offshore team, the question that should come up is: How are we going to manage, or more accurately, who is going to manage and work with the new offshore team? In this two-part blog I am going to go over some of the pros and cons ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:06:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshore management]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1309</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When we set up a team for a client, one of the things we work on is how that team can be better managed and incorporated in to the US side of things. There are a number of processes one can put in place to manage a team, using a ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:17:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When do you start Knowledge Transfer when offshoring]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1295</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am often asked when is it best to start transfering knowledge offshore to a new team. The answer is, as soon as possible, and it is not as hard as you think. As an example, if we take a Software as a Service (SaaS) project;  moving an internal ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:18:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More consolidation in the Russian outsourcing market]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1293</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Exigen, www.exigenservices.com, a US outsourcing services firm with its major operations in Russia and Latvia announced on the 12th of February its merger with StarSoft Development Labs. StarSoft is also a US firm with three operations centers in Russia; St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kazan, as well as a center in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:50:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Non-profit looking to help ease problems in the Indian court system]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1267</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This past week in Mountain View, California, the Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS), outlined phase two in their initiative to refer India's civil and criminal justice system.    For more informatio about the Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems: http://www.isdls.org/]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:05:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshoring is really hitting the mainstream]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1266</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I was at a meeting of women consultants here in Northern California. The topic of conversation revolved around trends for 2007 and the economic factors responsible for those trends. One of the main trends revolved around the use of offshore resources at the consultant level. While for ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:38:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is 2007 the year Ukraine joins the WTO?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1253</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For the last several years we had been told by the Ukrainian government that WTO was a priority and right around the corner. Indeed Ukraine has been working on ascension to WTO for more than ten years. Will 2007 be the year for Ukraine to finally join the WTO? The ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:04:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshoring your software development a review, &quot;Software without Borders&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1251</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It seems everyone is writing a book on outsourcing these days, but I recently finished one of the better ones that I have read in a while. Published this year, Software without Borders by Steve Mezak of Accelerance, is a good primer for those not familiar with the process of ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:21:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Overcoming the &quot;Dangers of Foreign Software&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1220</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Another Computerworld article has grabbed my attention, and probably the attention of a lot of folks looking at offshoring. The article, "DOD Report to Detail Dangers of Foreign Software,” referred to a report due out shortly by the Defense Science Board, a military/civilian think tank. It is expected that they ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:27:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Interviewing Ukrainians for your team!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1215</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent Computerworld article entitled, “Fishing in the Global Talent Pool,” outlined how multi-nationals are widening their search for IT talent. The idea is that the hired IT talent will remain in their home country and work out of the firm’s local offices. Previously these offices had typically only been ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:41:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where did my developer go?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1210</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have heard from several entrepreneurs that their offshoring "horror" stories included working with an individual software developer, completing one project successfully, then a second project successfully, and then somewhere along the line they just stop hearing from the developer. They seem to disappear. Maybe the developer completed the project ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[ADM / IT&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:46:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trust and Communications in Offshoring]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1192</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Very often I hear from software managers and CEOs that we need only good technical resources for our offshore project and then all of our projects will work well and be successful. I have seen this as well in articles interviewing the CEOs of companies which are made up of ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:39:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Blogger: Emmy Gengler]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1191</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Emmy Gengler has more than 10 years of experience in information technology solution development, including the last four years as president and CEO of an IT and business consulting company based in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine and California. During her tenure, partnership agreements have been signed with such companies as Oracle, ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:36:19 -0700</pubDate>
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