Never ever walk down the hall without a document in your hands. People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the cafeteria. People with the newspaper in their hands look like they’re heading for the bathroom. Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.
Use computers to look busy. Any time you use a computer, it looks like work to the casual observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, calculate your finances and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work.
Messy desk. Top management can get away with a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you’re not working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents around your workspace. To the observer, last year’s work looks the same as today’s work; it’s volume that counts. Pile them high and wide. If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you’ll need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she arrives.
Voice mail. Never answer your phone if you have voice mail. That’s the way to live. Screen all your calls through voice mail. If somebody leaves a voice mail message for you and it sounds like impending work, respond during lunch hour. That way, you’re hardworking and conscientious even though you’re being a devious weasel. If your voice mailbox has a limit on the number of messages it can hold, make sure you reach that limit frequently. One way to do that is to never erase any incoming messages. If that takes too long, send yourself a few messages. Your callers will hear a recorded message that says, “Sorry, this mailbox is full” a sure sign that you are a hardworking employee in high demand.
The abundance of creative talent, highly educated specialists, Western culture and low cost make Argentina ideal for the outsourcing of Web Design, Graphic Design, Flash, 3D Animation and development of Games and Video. Argentina will function as the regional hub for creative outsourcing services.
Creative Outsourcing is becoming more and more common place for companies and clients in the developed world. The Internet, email, and lately collaborative applications like Skype, ClockingIT, Basecamp, and WebEx have made it easier to outsource work that can be sent digitally. Creative Work has long been considered difficult to outsource since it needed close contact between client & provider and is often culture specific. Creative work is now the new outsourcing threshold. Where can you best outsource Creative Work? To India where the majority of programming is going, or to China, the manufacturing giant? What about Eastern Europe or Mexico? Finally all water flows to the lowest point. The lowest point is defined as the place where we find the best price and quality relationship. We have reason to believe that Argentina will become the global center for Creative Outsourcing. The abundance of creative talent, highly educated specialists, Western culture and low cost make Argentina ideal for the outsourcing of Web Design, Graphic Design, Flash, 3D, Games and Video. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysia was the centre of the IT world in May, with the 16th WCIT 2008 summit now being cited as being the biggest ever. The cost of hosting this global summit was subject to local comment, so just how did it benefit the hosts. With figures now released by the Malaysian government, here’s our report card.
Delegate Figures; over 7’000 delegates attended the 16th WCIT 2008 Summit, making it the largest ever. Score A+Visitor information; over 50,000 participants attended WCIT2008 and related events and the exhibition. Score A
Those clever people at Everest Research have just released Quarterly Vista report (Q1 2008)
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Quarterly Market Vista reports provide data and analysis highlighting key trends and developments in the fast evolving global offshoring and outsourcing market. Market Vista is designed to empower buyers and suppliers with continuously updated insights, analysis and data to optimize ongoing management of globally sourced portfolios.
The scope of the report covers critical and highly relevant topics in:
This is the spirit of lateral thinking that helped Britain build its empire, birthplace and home to some of the best engineers in the world and the use of newspaper to keep your fish and chips warm as you walk through the freezing streets of most seaports around our great island.
British students are using online freelance expertise in IT to complete their course assignments by posting request for Quotations (RFQ’s) of their coursework on outsourcing websites and buying the completed coursework.
Called “contract cheating” in academic circles, lecturers in computing departments in universities are struggling to recognize outsourced assignments since such coursework is of high quality and difficult to detect through normal plagiarism detection software.
The trend is particularly seen in IT courses, in which students need to write programs and students can pay amounts ranging from 5 to 50 pounds for the completed coursework that they then pass off as their own work and gain their degrees.
Once again, we have stories of poor quality manufacturing in China, with this latest article involving chairs, supporting a move to Smart Sourcing of manufacturing to countries that have a far more mature manufacturing sector. After seeing this, I wouldn’t buy a chair from there.
Please beware that Wal-Mart is selling lounge chairs made in China, the plastic is very cheap and thin. Purchase at your own risk!!!
For the last few years I’ve been a bi-annual visitor to my home shores of the UK getting all too brief snapshots of my kids development through their teenage years as they accelerate towards adulthood. Similarly I also get snapshots of the UK business landscape and how its changing too. I’ve just returned from a business trip to UK, and since my last visit only 4 months ago, there seems to be a very pronounced change in attitudes towards outsourcing. Perhaps it’s the dramatic escalation in costs, which has been all to tangible on my last 2 visits, perhaps it’s the strong feeling for a need of change in politics which seems to hang so heavily in the air. There is no doubt that there has been a very definite, palpable change in the mindset of business owners and decision makers. There is almost an air of ‘haste’ to outsource, which is good news indeed for the various service providers, however I have concerns over the levels of comprehension of many companies entering into enterprise changing decisions of just how difficult and complex a process this can be. I hope its not a case of act in haste repent at leisure.
Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first U.K. police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories.
Individual stories can be shared with a user’s contacts and users can add comments to the feed. The application also links users to an external Web site where they can anonymously submit information on crimes or view YouTube videos related to ongoing investigations.
An excellent idea on how to ‘outsource’ criminal investigation, a genuine attempt at bringing some of the communal policing that we used to have when I was a kid, or a sinister plot to develop information about the contacts of people possibly involved in criminal activities…..
As I can’t believe that people involved in criminal activities are stupid enough to add the GMP application, I have to believe in their good intentions and compliment them on their vision to use the extended reach of this social network to assist them. Community policing for the 21st century.
Apparently a Sapporo based company, Digital Technologies Corp, has developed a software that can analyse the mood of callers phoning into call centres.
According to a report on Nikkei.net, the software can establish whether the person on the other side of the line is sober, slightly outraged, or simply barking mad.
It bases its analysis on biometrics and divides the results into whether a caller is happy or displeased, on a scale of one to seven. The report doesn’t relate whether if things go to the top end of the scale, whether the call centre will put them on hold indefinitely and refuse to engage with them any more on human rights grounds, or assign them to an anger management course. (Sponsored by the Call Centre of course)Read the rest of this entry »
 
 
 
 
