Editor's Blog

HP buying EDS creates a lumbering old-fashioned behemoth
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Big deal: HP buying EDS has finally given us the tier-one deal some analysts have made careers out of predicting. But is this really the right time for an old-fashioned mega-deal? Chris Middleton doesn't think so. All together now: let's crack a Bolly on the bows of the Titanic!

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One plus one equals one: the one percent solution to global problems
Thursday, May 08, 2008

The outsourcing industry ought to be an agent for transformational change. Chris Middleton talks compassion fatigue, Peter Gabriel, Marc Benioff, and quiet ways of donating time, product and money to benefit local communities. Click on the embedded links at the bottom of the blog to learn more.

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It’s official: the UK hates offshoring
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

It doesn't matter whether your customer is young or old, rich or poor, from the North or the South: he or she hates offshore call centres. Just read sourcingfocus.com's exclusive research, says Chris Middleton.

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sourcingfocus.com: countdown to launch day
Thursday, April 24, 2008

sourcingfocus.com celebrates its official launch in London next week, at a time when sourcing is locked in the collective subconscious, says Chris Middleton.

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Head in the clouds? NetSuite grows up with OneWorld
Thursday, April 17, 2008

This week Chris Middleton was at the launch of NetSuite OneWorld in San Francisco: the SaaS company's single-instance global business insight suite. With a simple and compelling message, why do SaaS companies still set out to mystify? he asks.

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Thoughts on the week
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

In an extra blog for sourcingfocus.com's first full week, Chris Middleton asks: if data security is so easy, then how has Whitehall become so inept? Then adds his voice to those slamming the Lords' ludicrous immigration research.

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Shell finally outsources telecoms and IT
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Shell has finally made a decision about its outsourcing strategy and inked a three-way, $4 billion deal. A cause for celebration? Chris Middleton is not so sure...

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Xenophobia and bad education: is this really the US response to outsourcing?
Friday, March 28, 2008

An increasingly vitriolic debate is raging in the US about the rise of Indian and Chinese outsourcing. What are they really afraid of? asks Chris Middleton

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Outsourcing: angel or devil for uncertain Shell?
Thursday, March 20, 2008

When oil giant Shell made ill-judged announcements about outsourcing 3,200 IT jobs on unfavourable terms, it courted union criticism and left skilled staff feeling undervalued... has it now changed its mind?

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Innovation, venture capital, SMEs: the new face of British politics?
Friday, March 14, 2008

This week Chris Middleton is baffled by the implications of two new reports and their links to some other news stories. Is the Government turning venture capitalist, as well as running a bank? Is Whitehall about to become a testing ground for the next new fad.... and what does Naomi Klein make of it all?

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