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			<title><![CDATA[Cultural Lessons: Another Take on China vs. India]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1407</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At a recent meeting in Dalian, China, I was chatting with a site manager for a leading India-based service provider. Naturally enough, the topic of workforce management challenges came up, so I took the opportunity to ask about the relative difficulties in attracting, training, and retaining employees for business process ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:43:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[And the No. 1 Insight to be Wary of: Lists Like These]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1402</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As anyone who has a read a magazine, surfed a consumer Web site or spent the pre-bed hour tuned in to Letterman knows, the world is in love with lists. Lists that aim to show the best, worst, priciest, cheapest, sexiest – whatever the metric, we are captivated by Top ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Processes or Services?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1401</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For nearly a year, I’ve been carrying around an article that was sent to me by a colleague. I seem to pull it out on every trip, reading and re-reading on planes and trying to assess whether it has anything to say about any of our clients.Thomas Davenport's article, “The ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:06:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sourcing Strategy Filters: Ready for Change?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1388</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My colleagues and I spend more of our time these days educating senior executives on the art of the possible regarding the service options for their back-office functions. Structural changes are what's wanted, and the subjects of offshoring agendas, shared services, capital-expense efficiency and the like are becoming common conversational ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:38:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Productivity Paradox]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1382</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm really interested in the questions being asked about productivity in outsourcing deals these days. I've noticed a pronounced cyclicality in the productivity-related queries from senior executives.  To be candid, most of the time we get asked how to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization it's because ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 12:59:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bulls vs. Bears]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1376</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our most recent TPI Index quarterly report caught the attention of some outsourcing heavyweights, including executives at certain service providers who are not happy with our outlook for 2007. One even told me, “Your last report is really hurting the outsourcing industry.” What we reported was largely retrospective, and no ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 13:07:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The New Service Providers: 'Lift and Shift' Becomes 'Support and Drive Change']]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1373</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The outsourcing industry took root and grew its first branches on the idea of transferring people, processes and assets from a company or other organization to a service provider. Sure enough, some in our industry still use the phrase "lift and shift" to describe the essence of the business model.Yet ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Offshoring: Better Work, Not Fewer Jobs]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1370</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We recently held a conference where over 100 of our clients shared their outsourcing and offshoring experiences. The event brimmed with great lessons and examples. Being a measurement guy, I couldn't resist comparing this year's event with one we held last year at which a CIO expressed some anxiety about ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Jobs&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 20:11:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Next Big (Vision) Thing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1366</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I've spent quite a bit of time in recent weeks with clients who are looking to outsourcing to accomplish some mighty big things. Our industry has long spoken about "transformation" to mean a sourcing solution that goes beyond a simple fix to pervade an entire enterprise and accomplish something on ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:15 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Demagoguery or Demographics?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1345</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We're in the homestretch of the U.S. Presidential election -- only another 19 months or so of fractious finger-pointing and speechifying.  Expect to hear an earful on outsourcing -- aka, offshoring -- from both sides of the fence.On one side will be those who point out that the workforces ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Globalization&nbsp;,&nbsp;Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:57:55 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Private Affair]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1337</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Much has been written and said about the potential benefits to a company that chooses to exit the spotlight of the public markets and go private. But what about that company's clients? It's a particularly important question for the customers of publicly traded service providers. And the happy answer is: ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:22:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Soylent Outsourcing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1332</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Remember the 70s sci-fi flick "Soylent Green"? That's the one where Charlton Heston discovers the secret behind the movie's title and shouts the film's famous line: "It's people!"Well, some of what I'm seeing out there suggests that the industry needs to rediscover the "secret" behind outsourcing if we want to ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Offshoring]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:17:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Blogger: Peter Allen]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1325</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Peter Allen is Partner and Managing Director for Market Development at TPI, responsible for TPI’s strategic planning, marketing, business development, industry relations and market intelligence.Peter leads the TPI Index, a leading indicator of trends and developments occurring in the global sourcing industry, monitored quarterly by global equity analysts, media and ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Blogger Bios]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:47:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Now Entering the Ring...]]></title>
			<link>http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1327</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week, the founder and chairman of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) teamed up with private-equity firm Cerebus to make a buyout offer for the business process firm (ACS's Announcement ). Some observed that private-equity was again looking to cash in on the growth of global outsourcing (Cerebus and others last ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Allen]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:18:30 -0700</pubDate>
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