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- Moving on offshore
- Moving on offshoreLet's support every unreliable form of energyif it won't work 100% of the time then we shouldn't even be looking at it.Great to have a president that finally gets in understands what we need to do to be competitive in the future.
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Moving on offshore
- President Obama moved toward more exploitation of America's offshore energy resources. Only this time it's not drill, baby, drill. It's about wind and waves. Obama made his announcement at a former Maytag plant in Iowa, a plant now being turned into a wind-turbine tower plant....
- Tags: Offshore, Prosperity, America, Barack Obama, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Offshore IT Outsourcing: An Integral Component of High-Performance IT Organization
- This white paper is a part of a series of informational papers developed by Keane to share knowledge on specific outsourcing issue that should be considered in today's business environment. This paper covers the topic of Offshore IT Outsourcing and is the first in the series. This paper provides a...
- Tags: Offshore, Keane Inc., Integral, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, High-performance, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2009-03-12
- Offshore wind, a new tack
- Courtesy: Principle Power. An American company is working with a utility company in Portugal to build an offshore wind farm. That's not the news. The real news is that these turbines will be on floating platforms, not attached to the ocean floor. Principle Power PP...
- Tags: Offshore, Wind Energy, Principle Power, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Offshore IT Development Services Help International Firm Achieve Project Success
- The Client is a leader in software and support for the global staffing industry, with headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices worldwide. The Client had already successfully implemented outsourcing as a long-term business strategy. However, they were looking to expand this strategy to include risk mitigation (all eggs not...
- Tags: Offshore, Information Technology, TEAM International, Client, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Grays Harbor planning a wave of ocean-sited power plants
- I blogged about an ambitious plan for seven offshore wave-driven power plants in American waters. The permit requests have been filed with the federal government by Grays Harbor Ocean Energy of Washington State. The company replied promptly to me qwuestion about where the money will come from....
- Tags: Offshore, Plant, Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Offshore Application Development Helps Customer Intelligence Provider Get State-of-the-Art Product
- In Q1 2008, VueLogic began development of a business analytics tool for the purpose of entering new markets with a competitive software product. VueLogic's vision for this new product was to design a SAAS application with three layers. VueLogic's internal cost-analysis found that developing the application via in internally managed...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Intelligence, Application Development, Outsource, Business Analytics, VueLogic, Outsourcing, Software Development, Databases, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-12-16
- Offshore BPO 1.1 (Windows)
- Complete explanation of BPO companies and following types of BPO companies in specific. BPO companies are categorized as follows: Offshore BPO Companies, Onshore BPO Companies, Near Shore BPO Companies. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Offshore, BPO, Microsoft Windows, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Software downloads 2008-10-29
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!
- While the banking community chews its nails, and worries about golfing fees, there are some corporations licking their chops. And sharpening those drill bits. The American offshore oil drilling moratorium expires at the end of this month. There'll be no attempt to revive any part of it....
- Tags: Offshore, Gasoline, Outsourcing, Banking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Drill, baby, drill--revisited
- Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...
- Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?
- I'm betting the offshore oil drilling moratorium in the United States is toast. It expires on September 30th. And the rush among Congressional Democrats to pass a new moratorium bill is not likely to find much support in the White House. Today the Democrats will...
- Tags: Offshore, Republican, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
- Update below: Do IT need managers need a crash course in India and China culture? My hunch is that they will as companies increasingly source to India and China. And the consensus appears to be that culture is a major hang-up. With that in mind here are...
- Tags: Offshore, China, Sourcing, India, Jason, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Channel Management, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solved
- Slightly off-topic but call it proof that YouTube still has a role to play in politics. Always ready to ride a publicity wave, Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain's famous ad juxtaposing Barack Obama with Hilton and Britney Spears with an "ad" of her own, posted on the Funny...
- Tags: Offshore, Paris, Advertisement, Hilton Hotels Corp., John McCain, Barack, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay
- Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...
- Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?
- IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?Google has a Patent on this...http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071010-google-patents-datacenter-in-a-shipping-container-ignores-suns-blackbox.htmlI for one really dig this drop-ship approach to a modular data-center.(;||
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Automating Problem Analysis and Resolution Across the Application Life Cycle: Enhancing the Efficiency of Offshore Software Development and Support
- This paper details the benefits of automating application problem determination and resolution throughout the application life cycle, from development to production. BMC's Application Problem Resolution product is an automated problem determination asset that can be leveraged by both development and production support teams to diagnose and communicate application problems very...
- Tags: Offshore, Software, Resolution Inc., Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Analysis, Application Problem, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Outsourcing, Asset Management, It Management, Software/Web Development, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, It service Management
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Six Key Ways Supplier Enablement Solutions Can Immediately Reduce Offshore Sourcing Costs in Complex, Import-Driven Supply Chains
- Meeting customer demands accurately and on time requires one to have a great deal of control over the supply chain processes - and all of the trading partners involved. Yet, developing and maintaining effective communication with a network of disparate suppliers located around the world is a challenge many companies...
- Tags: Offshore, Sourcing, Supplier, Channel Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Looks like I'm next...
- You can now offshore me.   Am thinking of re-training as a plumber     ... you can't offshore them          ... can you? by Phil Fersht
- Tags: Offshore, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study
- Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. ...
- Tags: Offshore, Turbine, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
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