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Tag Archives: outsource
The Trump Conundrum: American Jobs vs. Good Jobs vs. American Made
Candidate Trump told America that he would bring back, “Good, well-paying jobs, with benefits.” Which is what we want. We don’t just want low paying jobs without time off or health benefits. However, as Trump has learned, just the health … Continue reading
Posted in Common Sense Contracting, Delivering Services, Employment
Tagged employment, outsource, outsourcing
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The Robot Revolution On Speed: Too Late To Turn Back!
Tongues have been wagging about the rise of the robots. Robots taking over manufacturing, robots acting as home companions and robots taking our jobs. A lot of digital ink has been spilled on the subject. You know what? Just about … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Delivering Services, Employment, Improvement, Robots
Tagged economy, employment, outsource, Robots
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Revisiting the MATURE Outsourcing Program
In the past, we’ve talked about where outsourcing programs are headed when they finally reach their “mature” stage. That is to say, if you operate one or more lower cost locations, which have all passed their “training” phase, and are working … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Common Sense Contracting, Uncategorized
Tagged Analysis, Best Practices, Cost, Offshore, outsource, Six Sigma
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PMO Genius: Rule The Bizarro World!
When you manage projects, a big part of your effectiveness is derived from common knowledge and a database, not necessarily a formal database, of what works and what doesn’t. In the last decade, everyone in a corporation “knows” certain basic … Continue reading
Google Changes The Ediscovery Landscape
The big new app for 2012 just might be Google’s Apps Vault. Just released in the last days of Q1, this tool sits on top of Google Apps and simplify management of your firm’s documents. This tool will be enormously … Continue reading
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Tagged ediscovery, Improve, legal, outsource, Projects, Reporting, transform
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PMO Genius: 8 Lessons Learned About Outsourcing
In our last “PMO Basics,” we covered the reasons and methods for building a lessons learned file. Today, we’re going to apply lessons learned to Outsourcing. Why single out outsourcing? There are several good reasons. First, the recent wave of … Continue reading
PMO Genius: How To Smartsource Outsourcing Programs
In the last blog, we discussed the limits of cost based outsourcing: after initial savings three is little or nothing left for the next contract, “fractures” in processes develop between the client and the vendor that damage productivity and a … Continue reading
PMO Basics: The Downward Spiral Of Cost Based Outsourcing
Business is changing. Look at the number of books published about the economy’s move from atoms to electrons. Don Tapscott’s wrote an excellent example, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.” The title says it all. The Internet has connected everything … Continue reading
Oracle Solaris 11: Is This The Ultimate Cloud Tool?
On November 9th, Oracle launched the new Solaris 11 enterprise operating system at Gotham Hall in New York. Whether or not you work for IT, Oracle’s new Solaris 11 just might change the way you work. We all know the … Continue reading
Monkey Traps, Career Development, And Your Next Budget
Have you ever seen a monkey trap? It’s a simple device, just a container with a narrow opening. Typically, it’s a gourd or a hole in a tree with an opening just big enough for a monkey to squeeze his hand into; inside of your … Continue reading
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