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Offshore IT Outsourcing and Transition Economies: A Critical Comparison of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine

Information Technology IT outsourcing has long been viewed as a cost-effective way to get access to highly skilled, scarce resources located abroad. Countries such as India and Ireland are recognized offshore outsourcing locations, however there has been an increased interest in "Near shore" countries as potential outsourcing locations. This paper...

Tags: Offshore, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Poland, Offshore Outsourcing, Hungary, Ukraine, University Of East London, Information Technology Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2007-07-10

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G20, London Loony Lamposts and Banking Undue Diligence

As a national past time, Spank the Banker has become almost Monty Pythonesque in its common expression. As G20 gets ready to roll into London for the most important such conference since the great depression, even hapless university professors such as Chris Knight from the University...

Tags: Bank, Sustainability, Banking, Government, Financial Services, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Urban food deserts in major cities

Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...

Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Don't drink the water, still

We all know there are some places you need to drink purified water to stay healthy, and away from intestinal distress. Well, it's distressing to learn 140 million humans are drinking water with a high probability of gradual self-poisoning. Arsenic is the word. ...

Tags: Problem, Beverage, Water, Arsenic, Arsenic Problem, Arsenic Foundation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Rwanda experience shows difficulty in connecting Africa to the net

Despite investment from big players in the U.S. and elsewhere, most of Africa lags far behind when it comes to Internet infrastructure, reports the New York Times.Civil war, corruption and political instability have made it difficult for companies to invest in Africa. Seventy-five percent of email messages and phone calls...

Tags: International

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Iconoclasm in the global village

Blogger Boyd Stowe, who loves "social tools", doesnt love me (Ive actually got very nice social tools, especially after a few beers). In response to an essay I published this week on the Britannica website, which was critical of the Cluetrain Manifestos 4 sacred Cs: "community", "conversation", "customer" and "citizenship"...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-14

Storing liquid CO2 in the oceans?

One of the ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to capture carbon dioxide at its source, when it is emitted from power plants for example, and to store it in other places, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs or even the ocean after liquefaction. But, according to Youxue...

Tags: CO2

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Drives Efficiencies Through Innovative Technology

One of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in England, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides general and emergency services to Hackney and the City of London as well as specialist care in key disciplines. The trust wanted to streamline and automate financial management and purchasing. The challenge was...

Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance

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