The new trend in offshore outsourcing
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by Knowledge at Wharton
The concept of
business process outsourcing typically conjures up images of
inexpensively hired college graduates dialing away at call
centers in India, Singapore or the Philippines. It suggests
software engineers rewriting arcane code in a technology park
office in Bangalore, Beijing or some other place in the
developing world for a fraction of the salary that their U.S.
counterparts might earn for similar work. Read
the full article
Getting the measure of knowledge-
by Jan Mouritsen & Per
Bukh
For many companies the knowledge
economy is real. Knowledge - whether in people, organisational
procedures, customer relations or management and information
systems - is critical to how a firm functions and performs.
But knowledge can only be a manageable resource if it is made
visible, and it can only help in evaluating a firm if it is
used effectively and efficiently. Read
the full article
Articles for Students
Show-and-Tell in Real Time
- by Kimberly A. Killmer & Nashwa George
Your boss asks you to
make an important financial presentation to a group of
potential shareholders who are not particularly adept at
reading spreadsheets crammed with numbers. Although the
financial information is collected and calculated in Excel, he
wants the presentation to be viewer friendly and have more
pizzazz than a spreadsheet. It may be a cliché, he says, but a
picture is worth a thousand words—or in this case it’s worth
more than a thousand numbers. Read
the full article
Putting the squeeze on spreadsheets
- by Don Kiamie
In this age of
electronic spreadsheets, local and wide area networks and the
Internet, it’s a cinch to distribute financial data to many
different people in an organization. And therein lies a
problem. The CEO says he’s too busy for all the details (“Just
give me an overview”). The CFO, on the other hand, wants both
the overview (“So I can quickly see the trends”) and the
line-item details. Read
the full article
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