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Skype: The situation now, and the road ahead

Skype: The situation now, and the road aheadIncompetent Leadership Skype is led by a neophyte CEO that has no clue how to run a company, let alone a company with multiple operations.If John Donahoe had his head in the game at any level, he would have long ago realized that...

Tags: Cellular phones, Leadership, Skype Technologies S.A., ACN, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

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The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Should you benefit from ACN’s bloodletting?

If you like great talent, you should….. Accenture has cut loose many senior executives recently and will pare some more given last Thursday’s announcement. I know some of these folks. Specific vertical segments have been pared down to reflect new market realities. These include: automotive...

Tags: Consultant, Benefit, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Career, Sales, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring

Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

The Disintegrating BearingPoint

More than bankruptcy to worry about BearingPoint, the consultancy that once was part of KPMG, has entered a very different era in its history. The firm’s U.S. operations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Moreover, the company’s Asian operations may be sold off to another...

Tags: Bankruptcy, BearingPoint Inc., Asia, BGPT, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Business Operations, It Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-21

Satyam - The sharks are circling

New Year’s Resolution â€" Help Satyam get a new owner and management On the 19th, I did a lengthy piece discussing the proposed and then rejected acquisitions Satyam’s management recently endorsed. Satyam is a major provider of outsourced services. At that time, I wrote that: ...

Tags: Satyam, Corporate Governance, Free Trade, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-30

ACN vs. ORCL - Who's spending on advertising?

The cost of selling services and software BtoB magazine recently posted their Top 100 business-to-business advertiser list. On this list were a couple of firms with distinctly different approaches to advertising. Oracle Corporation came in at #95 on the list, down from #74...

Tags: ORCL, Advertisement, Accenture Ltd., Firm, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Viou 2.8.1 (Mac)

Drop a folder on Viou to automatically create and apply the appropriate icon based upon the icon of the application it contains.You acn also drop a file icon to change the parent folder icon.You can edit and change the model.Select the folder icon among different models.Now you can also copy/paste...

Tags: Folder, Apple Macintosh, Picture, LaunaySoft, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2008-02-09

Arabian Computer News on ERP implementation issues

In an interview with Arabian Computer News, Amr Taher of Saudi Arabian system integrator Hasoub, describes customer attitudes that lead to failed ERP projects: ACN: What are the big issues you see in the regional enterprise IT sector? AT: In this...

Tags: Information Technology, ERP, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-09