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	<title>Notes from Flat Creek &#187; Outsourcing</title>
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		<title>The politics of outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog for Colorado politicos has a post and discussion today surrounding a story that appears in the Denver Post and local NBC affiliate KUSA regarding the offshore outsourcing of a state project that proposes, ironically, to help disabled workers in Colorado find jobs. While I&#8217;ve touched on the impact outsourcing has on employees, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good for payroll poviders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s intersting that of all the activities offshore outsourcers are eager to take on, News.com reports that one they won&#8217;t touch is payroll services, supposedly due to industry giant ADP.
While ADP does offer a host of valuable services, we have actually found Paychex to be more responsive and an all around better fit for small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offshoring to Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post this morning writes on efforts by Pakistanis in the United States to build the offshoring industry in their country, but rightly so the author keeps a skeptical outlook. While Pakistanis in the U.S. hope to bring home some of the $12.8 billion that India generated in outsourcing last year, U.S. companies mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is IT a competitive advantage?</title>
		<link>http://blog.fcreek.com/it/is-it-a-competitive-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 19:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Carr (formerly editor of the Harvard Business Review) seems to be on board the outsourcing train, albeit from a unique perspective. His view is that IT will become a centralized function provided by utilities, much like cable or electricity. However I find it hard to imagine companies looking at computers and technology investment merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do US IT workers feel about offshoring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from News.com is pretty dated, but telling about the impact of offshoring on US workers. According to this study, &#8220;93 percent of IT workers are concerned about the impact of offshore outsourcing on their industry.&#8220;
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		<title>Deloitte study &#8211; outsourcing on the rocks</title>
		<link>http://blog.fcreek.com/outsourcing/deloitte-study-outsourcing-on-the-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deloitte Consulting LLP released a study on April 19 with some interesting results&#8230; most notably that 70% of participants &#8220;have had significant negative experiences with oursourcing projects.&#8221; Add to that 44% &#8220;did not see cost savings materializing as a result of outsourcing.&#8221;
My take is this study shows that just as with the Internet, companies rushed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch those call centers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story fresh from India about several employees of an outsourcer who scammed Citibank, a client they were supposedly helping. I didn&#8217;t understand the money conversion at first, but News.com reports the call center employees made off with about $350,000 using login information from legitimate customers. That information is supposedly secret, but Citibank got [...]]]></description>
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