Mixed Reviews of Outsourcing in China

The past few weeks have brought a couple of notes about outsourcing IT services to China, with rather different perspectives.
McKinsey’s recent research note notes some key challenges: lack of employees with strong English skills and international project management capabilities, and poor intellectual property protection. But the note also highlights strengths, such as the large [...]

Even Local Businesses Need Global Strategies

When I talk about our consulting focus on global business strategies and processes, many of my friends and neighbors’ eyes start to glaze over. (Yes, I know I need to work on my elevator pitch!) But I think there’s another reason, which is that a lot of us believe we live and work [...]

Competition among US States for Life Sciences Investments

In my post yesterday, I wondered at the lack of excitement about the new Massachusetts Life Sciences law. Today, the top article in the Boston Globe’s business section is about Maryland’s announcement of a similar plan. Apparently the Massachusetts law hasn’t gone unnoticed by other state governments, even if it’s barely caused a [...]

Competitive Advantage of Regions

Yesterday, Governor Patrick signed into law a $1 billion package for a 10 year plan to support the growth of the life sciences industry in Massachusetts. This seems, to me, like a huge deal, and a really important step for the future Massachusetts economy. Yet news coverage seems kind of muted (see, for example, [...]

Sandeep Sood on the Not-So-Flat World

I’ve been a fan of Sandeep Sood’s wickedly funny comic “Doubtsourcing” for some years now. (He seems to be taking a breather right now, writing about big B’s campaign, but that’s another story…)
Yesterday his newsletter pointed me to an excellent short – and humorous – article in Forbes about outsourcing to India. If [...]