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			<title><![CDATA[Software Industry 2007 at CMU]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1365</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm an SD Times (SD = Software Development) reader and enjoy editor Alan Zeichick's perspective and links. In his current newsletter, he wrote an analysis of Ray Lane's presentation at the recent New Software Industry 2007 conference that you can read at http://www.sdtimes.com/article/LatestNews-20070501-06.html. Even though the content isn't particularly related ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Karen Watterson]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 15:14:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Competitive Intelligence]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1301</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just listened to an hourlong Microsoft Webcast that featured compeitive intelligence guru Leonard Fuld, and it occurred to me that CI is something it might pay to outsource. Clearly, you'd have to pick your service provider carefully (you might even hire a local student to do it). I wonder ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:01:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Certifications Increasingly Demanded by Feds]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1298</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Excellent article by Heather Hayes on trends in federal procurement - especially regarding certifications - in the 2/12/07 issue of Washington Technology. The article includes a good sidebar that defines CMMI, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 20,000-1:2005, ANSI 748. EVM, ITIL, along with six sigma and lean that sourcingmag.com readers will be ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:24:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CompassConnections]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1297</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm the kind of person who likes to think about trends, and one of the ways I do this is by skimming advertisements. A rather large display ad in the 2/22/07 Financial Times described CompassConnections' search for a UK-based CEO that would lead the Mumbai-based outsourcing firm in its growing ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPO&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:47:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[10 Outsourcing Sites for China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1296</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In case some of you, like me, missed the 12/06 announcement from China's Ministry of Commerce about its plans to develop 10 outsourcing "base cities" by 2010, you can read short articles about the announcement from Chinese, Indian, and European perspectives at these URLs:http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/11/content_5468312.htmhttp://www.rediff.com/money/2006/dec/11bpo1.htmhttp://www.europeanleaders.net/learninggroups/global-sourcing/global-sourcing-news/42694/]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:31:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Productivity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1290</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Edward Baker has written what I consider an excellent article on productivity for CIO Insight; you can read it at http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2085007,00.aspBest quote: "Parkinson [John Parkinson, former chief technologist for the Americas at Capgemini], puts the problem another way. Raw productivity gains, he says, aren't sufficient to compete successfully in the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:27:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SIIA Survey Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1288</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the February 1, 2007, issue of Software Development Times (SD Times), David worthington summarizes a recent survey conducted by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) in partnership with Symphony Services, a "purveyor of outsourcing services." The survey report (GBL-06, available to SIIA members for $395), is based on ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:30:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1286</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Peter Marsh’s January 31, 2007, Financial Times article, "A new twist to India IT outsourcing," provides an interesting perspective on TCS’s strategy going forward. TCS, a publically traded firm which is 80% owned by the parent Tata industrial conglomerate, current employs about 83,000 people, a third of whom work outside ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:41:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IAOP Announces G100]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1063</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) recently released its list of the Global 100, led by IBM, Sodexho Alliance, Accenture, HP, and Capgemeni. You can read the press release with its analysis at http://www.outsourcingprofessional.org/firmbuilder/dist/Guest/IAOP%20G100%20Master%20Press%20Release%20.pdf?NC=90]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:10:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Food for thought in the May issue of CIO Insight]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1057</link>
			<description><![CDATA[1) Dave Larkin, a retired CIO of Pfizer Japan, noted in a letter to the editor that one unheralded benefit of offshoring is that it's a handy counter to specification creek. "It's so easy to say, 'You can't change that, it's being done in India.' (Larkin was responding to an ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 17:34:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TI's 2005 Corruption Perception Index]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1056</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Transparency International’s 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index of 159 countries, lists Iceland, Finland, and New Zealand as the "cleanest" countries in the world, with Chad and Bangladesh as the "dirtiest."Outsourcers might want to consider these ratings:Canada 14USA 17Ireland 19Malaysia 39Poland 70 (7-way tie)China 78 (5-way tie)India 88 (9-way tie)Philippines 117 (9-way ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 09:28:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beyond Transactions and Transformations?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1050</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the 5/16/06 issue of Financial Times, James Manyika wrote an interesting editorial about types of knowledge workers, noting that most have been involved with performing transactions and transformations, while today’s knowledge workers are increasingly being involved in more complex "tacit interactions." Manyika makes the point that most successful companies ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 15:20:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[7PM (Eastern) on C-SPAN2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1046</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be interested in Sunday's two-hour broadcast of a recent roundtable on globalization. (C-SPAN2 airs and webcasts "Book TV" every weekend, and this is one of the segments.) Here's the blurb:Description: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Friedman discuss the pros and cons of economic globalization. Joseph Stiglitz's latest ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 09:40:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thinking Outside the Box...er Womb]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1045</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In an April 19, 2006, article, "Wombs for Rent, Cheap," the LA Times' Henry Chu reports on a new kind of outsourcing - surrogate motherhood. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-surrogate19apr19,0,4100387.story?coll=la-home-headlines]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 09:28:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Background Checks $100-$5000/Employee?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1044</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The 4/17/06 issue of Forbes has several interesting articles related to outsourcing/offshoring:1) Kerry Dolan’s article, "Offshoring the Offshorers"The tickler says it all: "Never mind India. For outsourcing, China, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Brazil, and Mauritius are open for business." http://www.forbes.com/business/global/2006/0417/026.html(Of course, Sourcingmag's editor, Dian Schaffhauser, may suggest adding Mayalysia to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 14:56:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dell to Expand Operations in India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1015</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A short article in Computerworld reports that Dell plans to double the number of employees in India to about 20,000 over the next three years, adding staffers both in its call centers and in its manufacturing operations. http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,109721,00.htmlRelated: Information about Dell's Enterprise Command Center in Malaysia. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2006/2006_01_26_rr_000?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;s=corp and http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/services/en/ecc?c=us&amp;cs=555&amp;l=en&amp;s=biz]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another Outsourcing Cartoon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1001</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing’s always a good target for cartoonists, and I guess I enjoy cartoons (http://www.sourcingmag.com/ blog/ archive/ cartoon_views_of_outsourcing.html ). A recent one by William Hamilton ("Money Should Be Fun") in The Observer show a couple talking to a travel agent, explaining: "We need a fun, America-friendly destination where people won’t run ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:31:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CFOs on Outsourcing HR]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1000</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CFO Magazine has a special February 2006 issue dedicated to human capital, and several articles are likely to be of interest to Sourcingmag.com readers. John Mello, for example, discusses the trend in outsourcing HR functions to one-stop shops that you can read at http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/5491027/c_5514415?f=magazine_alsoinside. The same issue has a thought-provoking ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:25:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Matchmaking at CeBIT]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=999</link>
			<description><![CDATA[According to news reports, CeBIT’s organizers are expecting their new "matchmaking" area reserved for firms looking to outsource IT work to be a popular success. The annual IT and telecommunications trade show, held in Hannover, Germany, and opening this week (it runs March 9-15) is expected to attract almost a ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:34:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gaming Goes Global]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=997</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Back in Oct 2005, I wrote about the emergence of game offshoring to India. http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/archive/the_new_game_in_town_game_offshoring_to_india.html, so I was interested when I stumbled across S. Karat's late January 2006 post about how Tiga, the UK-based Independent Games Developers Association, was looking for partners for game development in India. http://www.contentsutra.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/24/1720580.htmlSmart organizations worldwide ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:22:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Satyam Expands Chinese Presence]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=996</link>
			<description><![CDATA[According to a 3/1/06 article by John Ribeiro, India's Satyam Computer Services will expand its outsourcing presence in China. Satyam currently employs 270, mainly in its Shanghai office, but the new site will be in Guangzhou and will focus on the southern China market. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/03/01/75979_HNsatyamexpands_1.html]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:54:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[700 New Jobs in SW Virginia]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In an engagingly well-written article about the impact of rural sourcing on Lebanon, Virginia (pop. 3,300), the Christian Science Monitor's Patrik Jonsson paints a word picture of the town and some of the people who live in this mid-Appalachian plateau community where the average household income is about $27,000. It's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:32:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IT Governance]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=990</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (2/20/06), Everett Johnson, President of IT Governance Institute, Deloitte &amp; Touche, gave a fantasic Microsoft Executive Circle webcast on IT governance. (You should be able to register to listen to or watch a replay at http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032290261%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e, but if that doesn't work, just find it at http://www.microsoft.com/webcasts.)Johnson, a CPA, is ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stan Gibson on NASSCOM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=987</link>
			<description><![CDATA[eWEEK's Executive Editor Stan Gibson offers an excellent podcast overview of last week's (Feb 15-17) NASSCOM 2006 summit in Mumbai. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1871476,00.asp (Select eWEEK podcast #25 for NASSCOM coverage, #20, #22, and #24 for additional coverage of Gibson's trip to India) Separately, NASSCOM, http://www.nasscom.org/, announced the winners of its Global Leadership ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:31:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Face-to-Face Communication]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=971</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the first of a two-part article on "Best Practices for Improving Project Success: The Importance of Synchronization," Goran Begic focuses on face-to-face communication and use cases. Although he starts his discussion of communication by observing "Blessed are the teams that reside in a single location...", Goran does provide some ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:08:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[QAPodcast]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=954</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just finished listening to an excellent 25-minute podcast, "A Software Outsourcing Primer," and I want to recommend it to you. I'm not a podcast freak, nor, for that matter, a particularly easy person to please. My time, like yours, is valuable, and I resent so-called content that's nothing more ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:22:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fine-tuning the Offshoring Model]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=957</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Linda Tucci's thoughtful 12/21/05 article, "Offshoring 2006: Beyond Bangalore," is likely to set you thinking. She notes, for example, that although India will probably remain the major host of offshoring services, many firms are fine-tuning their offshoring model. Some fly key service provider personnel the the US for training, others ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:14:15 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Opportunities in Healthcare Services]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=913</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Short 12/14/05 article summarizing Datamonitor's recent report, "Selling Offshore Outsourced Contact Center Services to the Healthcare Industry." Datamonitor, which estimates the 2005 market for back-office services for the healthcare field at about $800 million, notes that functions such as medical coding, billing services, and physician and claims transcription services are ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report on Supply Chain Risks to Electronics Industry]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=901</link>
			<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study that focused on the electronics industry's supply chain, the industry's outsourced business model "has resulted in electronics companies losing increasing degrees of control and visibility across their extended supply chain, resulting in increased levels of risk."  http://www.industrydirections.com/knowledge/knowFrames.php3?id=260&amp;url=/news/prNov_16_05.htm]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Supply Chain]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=884</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A brief article in Logistics Today cites a recent study conducted by Capgemini, Georgia Southern University, and the University of Tennessee lamenting the pace of supply chain outsourcing. According to the survey, less than 10 percent of the companies have automated full collaboration. http://www.logisticstoday.com/displayStory.asp?nID=7589Sourcingmag has several dozen articles, case studies, ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[EDS to Increase Workers in "Cost-advantaged Locations"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=881</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Frank Byrt reports in a 12/1/05 WSJ article that Dallas-based EDS plans to double the number of its employees working in "cost-advantaged locations" outside the U.S. About 15,000 of EDS's 117,000 employees currently work in such locations. The move will mean job losses for some North American and European employees.Here's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cartoon Views of Outsourcing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=877</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month, Dilbert creator Scott Adams ran two cartoons on outsourcing that you may enjoy. While "researching" this post, I ran across one of Adams' earlier ones (kinda blurry), along with one by Mike Luckovich and another from Pat Oliphant that some of you may enjoy.http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051111.htmlhttp://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051112.htmlhttp://java.blogeasy.com/article.view.run?articleID=6863Mike Luckovich's editorial cartoonhttp://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1066204/postsPat Oliphant's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reference Account Opportunities]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Should you be a reference account? Vendors and service providers use reference accounts as part of their marketing basket. The idea is that individuals from firms who have used their products and/or services agree to talk to potential customers. The idea is that satisfied customers will vouch for the product/service ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virginia's Governor Warner Wins Plaudits]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The November 21, 2005, issue of Time profiled John Warner as one of the five best governors in the US. Warner, a Democrat, managed both to cut Virginia's budget by $6 billion, but also to pass a $1.4 billion tax hike, the largest in Virginia's history. Thanks largely to Warner's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TCS Ups Investment in Latin America]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[By purchasing the Chilean BPO firm Comicrom, Mumbai-based Tata Consulting Services increases its Latin America-based head count to about 2,000 staffers. Excerpt: "TCS's strategy in Latin America is to increase the scale of its operations so that it can offer BPO and IT services not only to markets in the ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Download Your Own Copy of the Map]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=825</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My March 5, 2005, issue of of CIO Insight is dog-eared. Not only do I find myself going back to it, over and over, but I've even loaned it out to colleagues and clients - something I'm normally loathe to do. You can browse the table of contents and read ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Grab Bag of Karen's Recent Clippings]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=808</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I've got a backlog of clippings to post. Item #1 from the 8/23/05 issue of Australian IT, describing a Sydney dinner attended by some 250 of Australia's business elite on the occasion of Indian Independence Day. Gartner research director Partha Iyengar, who's based in Pune, said that "Indian technology companies ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The New Game in Town: Game Offshoring to India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=756</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In an interesting 9/22/05 Washington Post article, "India Vies for Share of Video Game Market," S. Srinivasan describes the growing ranks of entrepreneurial developers who are "trying to make India the world's studio for developing games on mobile phones, computers, and consoles." They're reportedly already attracting "big names and big ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=689</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On 9/1/05, Dutch banking giant ABN AMRO awarded a major five-year IT outsourcing contract to five vendors, headed by IBM. Three Indian technology companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, and Patni Computers, will provide application support and some development.The deal is part of ABN Amro's efficiency program announced last December.According ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:27:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eras Always Have an Ending]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=662</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I admit to having a hero worship thing for Bell Labs...In today's SDTimes newsletter, a news item by Alex Handy, "Lucent Shutters Department That Developed Unix."Lucent Technologies has officially closed down department 1127, the research group responsible for the creation of Unix in 1969. The decision to dissolve the department ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshoring Management Framework]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=484</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a short article, "Frameworks to Execute Offshored Projects," software developer Mohan Babu describes his notion of an 'Offshoring Management Framework' (OMF) one that he elaborates on in his forthcoming book, Offshoring IT Services: A Framework forManaging Outsourced Projects. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i18_babu.html ]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 09:14:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Should You Consider Pakistan?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good article in the 5/10/05 Washington Post about offshoring in Pakistan. Despite challenges including an unstable power grid that may cause cumulative work outages of more than a day a month, there's an economic appeal to hiring mid-level programmers who are willing to work for "as little as $6 an ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 09:44:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Thibodeau's May 2 Computerworld article on offshoring tech support leads with news about Dell's new three-year contract with Honeywell to manage 57,000 of Honeywell's PCs. http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/helpdesk/story/0,10801,101456,00.htmlThe May 5 issue of the WSJ has an interesting article by Nicholas Zamiska, "Quality Luries Software Outsourcing," where Zamiska mentions that CMM certification ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 12:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Better Model? Transform-Operate-Transfer]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=421</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Deloitte-Touche document is an excellent paper. I have to admit that I expected it to be a glorified advertisement for Deloitte services, but there's a lot of meat there. When the study suggested that outsourcing seems to be losing luster for large corporations who might replace outsourcing to a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is Russia the Next Great IT Center?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In an interesting 4/18/05 news item from the JDJ News Desk, reporters quote Leonid Reiman, Russia's Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, as saying that his ministry is spearheading Russia's effort to shift away from its dependency on fuel exports toward a knowledge- and service- based economy. Reiman, who spoke ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Encarta Reference Encyclopedia Entries]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=407</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I own Encarta's Reference Encyclopedia 2005 and download the updates weekly. This week, I noticed that there are four new entries related to outsourcing: a fairly lengthy one on outsourcing, plus shorter ones on outsourcing call centers, outsourcing in the automotive industry, and outsourcing in the computer industry. Microsoft's free ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Practical Advice]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=385</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Good Datamation article by Eric Spiegel with advice on avoiding common pitfalls to offshore outsourcing. Eric interviewed Tiffany Mura, president of bizprox, LLC, a management consultancy based in Boston who recommends that firms provide an "introduction to offshoring" training for their own employees.Eric also quoted her as saying that "One ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Computerworld Premier 100 Execs Offer Advice]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last year, Morgan Stanley decided to outsource functions such as firewall management and network vulnerability assessment to a managed security service provider. According to Jaikumar Vijayan's 3/8/05 Computerworld article, Lance Braunstein, Morgan Stanley's executive director of infrastructure planning, said that "Outsourcing to a third party also allows Morgan Stanley to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:25:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Static and Dynamic Testing Described]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a February 2005 COTS Journal article on automated testing, co-authors Bob Fleck and John Viega, who are executives of Secure Software, http://www.securesoftware.com, discuss the pros and cons of dynamic and static testing (they recommend a combination), but, notably for sourcingmag readers, warn about the risks of dynamic testing:For instance, ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:38:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phase Three?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a very good March 8, 2005, article on "IT Outsourcing: Maturity Phase," Basil Tesler, who's affiliated with Intetics, a firm that offers offshore software development, discusses how outsourcing/offshoring/strategic sourcing is evolving beyond the initial project-by-project model and concerns for reducing costs to a more complex one based on interdependent ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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