Comments on: Pro-Globalism View of Outsourcing and Outsourcing Critics http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/ Best Practices in Outsourcing, Vendor Management, ROI, and Improved Performance Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:40:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: tony http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-246 tony Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:16 +0000 http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-246 Holy smokes, a British Professor in Edinburgh who writes a blog, "Adamn Smith's Lost Legacy" who reviewed our article. Have a read here: http://adamsmithslostlegacy.com/2008/03/correct-vision-of-outsourcing-though.html Thanks, Gavin! Holy smokes, a British Professor in Edinburgh who writes a blog, “Adamn Smith’s Lost Legacy” who reviewed our article. Have a read here:

http://adamsmithslostlegacy.com/2008/03/correct-vision-of-outsourcing-though.html

Thanks, Gavin!

]]> By: concerned citizen http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-241 concerned citizen Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:33:21 +0000 http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-241 Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winenr for Economics and was Chief Economsit for the World Bank) said while on a trip to India, that 600 million people from India (out of the one billion!) have been left out of the “development” fold of globalization. So, obviously, all India is not going to migrate into middle class, if anything the inequality is far, far worse now, after the advent of globalization. Similarly newspaper reports have pointed out how Chinese workers are working in apalling conditions, to chhurn out the low cost products, with poor pay, cramped rooms, no accident or health insurance benefits, no job security, no overtime, long working hours - so who is actaully benefiting from this sort of globalization? Corporates ofcourse, and the few privileged people of India nd China who have been able to get educated in engineering and technology! Not the vast majority of population. Two books to read, which offer a counterperspective to Friedman's "The World is Flat." The Harvard Professor, Pankaj Ghemawat's latest book, "Redefining Global Strategy," is more academically inclined. I read an article of his published in the journal, "Foreign Policy", where he argues that the world is, at best, only semi-globalized. His argument being that Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic aspects of a nation come in the way of total globalization from taking place and cites examples of the same. The other small, but interesting book, is by Aronica and Ramdoo, "The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman's New York Times Bestseller." It is a small book compared to the 600 page tome by Friedman, and aimed at the common man and students alike. As popular as the book may be, some reviewers assert that by what it leaves out, Friedman's book is dangerous. The authors point to the fact that there isn't a single table or data footnote in Friedman's entire book. "Globalization is the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution," says Aronica. Aronica and Ramdoo conclude by listing over twenty action items that point the way forward, and they provide a comprehensive, yet concise, framework for understanding the critical issues of globalization. You may want to see www.mkpress.com/flat and watch www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman's "The World is Flat". Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation www.mkpress.com/extreme http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winenr for Economics and was Chief Economsit for the World Bank) said while on a trip to India, that 600 million people from India (out of the one billion!) have been left out of the “development” fold of globalization. So, obviously, all India is not going to migrate into middle class, if anything the inequality is far, far worse now, after the advent of globalization. Similarly newspaper reports have pointed out how Chinese workers are working in apalling conditions, to chhurn out the low cost products, with poor pay, cramped rooms, no accident or health insurance benefits, no job security, no overtime, long working hours - so who is actaully benefiting from this sort of globalization? Corporates ofcourse, and the few privileged people of India nd China who have been able to get educated in engineering and technology! Not the vast majority of population.

Two books to read, which offer a counterperspective to Friedman’s “The World is Flat.”

The Harvard Professor, Pankaj Ghemawat’s latest book, “Redefining Global Strategy,” is more academically inclined. I read an article of his published in the journal, “Foreign Policy”, where he argues that the world is, at best, only semi-globalized. His argument being that Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic aspects of a nation come in the way of total globalization from taking place and cites examples of the same.

The other small, but interesting book, is by Aronica and Ramdoo, “The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman’s New York Times Bestseller.” It is a small book compared to the 600 page tome by Friedman, and aimed at the common man and students alike. As popular as the book may be, some reviewers assert that by what it leaves out, Friedman’s book is dangerous. The authors point to the fact that there isn’t a single table or data footnote in Friedman’s entire book. “Globalization is the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution,” says Aronica. Aronica and Ramdoo conclude by listing over twenty action items that point the way forward, and they provide a comprehensive, yet concise, framework for understanding the critical issues of globalization.

You may want to see http://www.mkpress.com/flat
and watch http://www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html
for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman’s
“The World is Flat”.

Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! http://www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html

There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation
http://www.mkpress.com/extreme
http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html

]]> By: tony http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-224 tony Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:55:36 +0000 http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-224 Bingo! Actually, "giving you my mess for less" is the model most companies follow. Call it outsourcing 2.0 (following the wide use of contractors in the 90s and early 2000s - 1.0). This next efforts have to be on transforming. Bingo! Actually, “giving you my mess for less” is the model most companies follow. Call it outsourcing 2.0 (following the wide use of contractors in the 90s and early 2000s - 1.0). This next efforts have to be on transforming.

]]> By: Raza Imam http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-222 Raza Imam Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:44:16 +0000 http://360vendormanagement.com/2008/03/28/pro-globalism-view-of-outsourcing-and-outsourcing-critics/#comment-222 You make some pretty sophisticated points in this post. Here's the deal... you either grow or die. Outsourcing isn't about pinching pennies (those narrow-minded, short-term-only, immature cheapskates who think it is deserve to have their projects fail) it's about fostering innovation. And guess what, innovation ain't easy. It takes time, money, and resourcefulness. Outsourcing is about leveraging your time and money so that you can focus on being resourceful. There's a lot of talk about outsourcing and innovation. Everyone was proud of their 'lift and shift' solution to non-core services in order to save a few bucks. But saving a few bucks isn't cutting it anymore. Businesses need innovative solutions to their problems. Raza Imam You make some pretty sophisticated points in this post.

Here’s the deal… you either grow or die. Outsourcing isn’t about pinching pennies (those narrow-minded, short-term-only, immature cheapskates who think it is deserve to have their projects fail) it’s about fostering innovation. And guess what, innovation ain’t easy. It takes time, money, and resourcefulness. Outsourcing is about leveraging your time and money so that you can focus on being resourceful.

There’s a lot of talk about outsourcing and innovation. Everyone was proud of their ‘lift and shift’ solution to non-core services in order to save a few bucks. But saving a few bucks isn’t cutting it anymore. Businesses need innovative solutions to their problems.

Raza Imam

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