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MAJOR INDIAN OUTSOURCING VENDORS ACHIEVING WORLD-CLASS PROCESS AND QUALITY LEVELS 11 May 2000 by Marty McCaffrey
Information on offshore outsourcing companies seldom reaches the mainstream IT industry publications.
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Measuring Change
When deploying systems with a large business process change component, one of the most critical steps is to implement a process to measure change. It's all well and good to design a knowledge management system, train the users, and use change management techniques to decrease resistance to change. But, in the end, how do you know whether or not you solved the business problem you were attempting to solve?
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor with his gun ships. What Perry did (once euphemistically called "the opening of Japan") was controversial both then and now. But Perry did not go to Japan out of the goodness of his (or America's) heart; rather, he and his ships were there on behalf of old-fashioned, bare-knuckle, imperialistic capitalism.
COMMODORE PERRY AND THE FIREWALL 10 May 2000 by Ken Orr
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor with his gun ships.