Metagrobolize

29 of our brains are missing

Malaysia makes big strides to progressing up the knowledge chain, some of the initiatives that it has taken to expose post graduates to different learning practices, skills sets and cultures has led to greener pastures for some as they are lured away by the very people employed to teach them.

Leading Indian software giant, Infosys Technologies Ltd, a company with more than 50,000 employees, has offered jobs to 29 of the group of Malaysian fresh graduates who have just completed a four-month stint at the company’s high-tech campus in Bangalore.

The Malaysian trainees, including seven lecturers, were selected to attend a foundation course in computer science to help them improve their computer skills under collaboration between Infosys and the Malaysian government. Read the rest of this entry »

People in Glass Houses

Here’s a Post from a prominent ‘outsourcing’ Blog that I normally enjoy reading:

“I just discovered, from a friend who works in a prominent position at a prominent bank, that the government of Malaysia outsources the Bank of Malaysia to [this prominent bank].”

Interesting: the argument against outsourcing is often, that it moves jobs from our country (USA) to their country. But an interesting reversal has happened: their governments tend to be so corrupt, that the governments don’t trust themselves with money, so they outsource managing the money to us!
(Source www.outsourceyourlife.com)

It’s interesting how Americans believe that their Corporate governance is ‘first world status’ comparative to their industrialization and infrastructure. I wont bother to mention Enron or Arthur Andersen or Bristol Myers or Tyco International or Martha Stewart or WorldCom or Lucent Technologies or J.P Morgan Chase & Co or AOL/Time Warner, I think I’ll rise above finger pointing and refer back to globally recognized and quoted Corruption indexes such as Transparency international’s ‘Global Corruption Barometer’ (Latest-2006) which goes on to report Read the rest of this entry »