enture? Senior Editor Ben Worthen catalogues his observations of a country in transition.
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By Ben Worthen
The dichotomy of old meets new, where high-tech buildings coexist with shanty villages, is brought home in this photo essay.
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India dominates as the outsourcing destination du jour. The question is: Will it stay on top?
By Diann Daniel
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Understanding India’s culture is essential for Americans who want a productive client-vendor relationship.
If you work with companies in India or China, you’d better know your holidays.
By Gunjan Bagla
There’s no strategy needed to offload work to a low-cost destination. Doing so has potentially disastrous long-term implications if the relationship isn’t more than skin deep.
By Chris Koch
Outsourcing has matured, but best practices have been few. Now two top academics reveal the principles that should guide CIOs.
By Stephanie Overby
Risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities, country by country.
To succeed, relationships require love and attention. That’s why CIOs—especially mid-market CIOs with limited resources—should factor in the costs of hand-holding when going offshore.
Indian IT services companies are sending an increasing number of U.S. hires to do extended stints in India.
The next hot enterprise software application may come from India, not Silicon Valley.
The successful transfer of knowledge to an offshore vendor—everything from programming expertise to what users expect from a system—can make or break a project. Here's what you need to know to do it right.
As a growing number of IT jobs move overseas, some CIOs and economists prophesy a political storm against offshore outsourcing.
By Christopher Koch
Outsourcing to India can provide a huge payback—if you're willing to work at it. Two offshore veterans share their hard-earned lessons to help you determine if Indian outsourcing is right for your company.
David Wood, director of systems development at Otis Elevator, answers your most-pressing questions.
Ernst & Young’s latest global information security survey gives the scoop on third-party vulnerabilities.
By Shawna McAlearney
U.S. companies outsourcing their software development offshore can get stung by industrial espionage and poor safeguards.
By Michael Fitzgerald
Read about two players in India's outsourcing industry who drafted a data protection law.
Amidst economic recession and terrorist warfare, there is heightened anxiety about the notion of handing off critical IT projects to vendors in such remote locales as India. But the right strategy can help keep your company secure.
By Tom Field
Media Lab Asia is doing something about India's digital divide.
You and your Indian colleagues all speak English, but you don’t always speak the same language.
Globally standardized systems are a great idea—but not so hot when they're just American ones.
India's popularity as an outsourcing hotspot didn't happen by chance.
By John Ribeiro
In 2000, CIO Senior Editors Tom Field and Cheryl Bentsen traveled to India and used their observations and findings to create a series of articles on India’s culture and international rise. From Bollywood to India’s burgeoning IT industry, this special report fascinates as a backward glance on the country’s rich texture and emergence as an IT leader.
China is fighting U.S. dominance of Internet addresses by vaulting to an addressing standard that could rewrite the rules for years to come.
This collection of articles can help CIOs develop strategies that accommodate Chinese complexity without compromising the goals of the business.
By CIO Staff
CIOs are beginning to see China as a cheaper alternative to India. Nypro, a global plastics manufacturer, shares some lessons from its experiences over there.
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5 Steps to Automating Accounts PayableDo you ever get so excited about payday that a few days later you find yourself wondering: Wait, didn’t I just get paid? Where did my entire paycheck go? If so, you’re not alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way! You can master your income. And it’s a lot simpler than you might think.
It’s the scary B-word, I know. It gets a bad rap for being like a straitjacket, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. A budget doesn’t limit your freedom; it gives you freedom! A budget allows you to tell your money where to go each month rather than wondering where it went. If you want to be intentional with your income, start by creating a budget.
How to do it: I recommend using a zero-based budget. That just means your monthly income minus your monthly expenses equals zero. So, at the beginning of each month, list all your expenses. Include your rent or mortgage payment, cell phone bill, electricity bill, Netflix subscription—everything! Subtract those expenses from your income and work your budget until you reach zero. If you don’t get it quite right the first time, that’s okay! It normally takes about three months to get the hang of budgeting. Just remember: The goal is to give every single dollar in your paycheck a job to do.
Debt payments don’t have to zap your paycheck. You can take back control of your income by making paying off debt a priority. It’s time to stop letting debt rob you of the very thing that helps you win with money—your income.
How to do it: Use the debt snowball method to get rid of your debt once and for all. Start by listing your debts from smallest to largest (regardless of the interest rate). Pay the minimum payment on all of them except for the smallest debt. I want you to attack that one. Once the smallest debt is paid off, take everything you were paying on it and roll it over to the next smallest debt—like a snowball. Keep doing this until you’re debt-free!
Okay, we all know we should save, but do we actually do it? To help you remember to save, put your savings category at the top of your budget. That way, you won’t get to the end of your budget and realize you don’t have any money left to save.
How to do it: First, save up $1,000 as fast as you can (before you pay off any debt!). This will be your starter emergency fund. Then, once you’re completely debt-free, increase your emergency fund to three to six months of expenses. That should put a good buffer between you and life.
And as you’re saving, don’t forget about sinking funds! If you know you’re going to be in the market for a car or you have a vacation coming up, start saving for it in advance. It’s much easier to save a little bit each month than come up with a huge sum at once.
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We were missing some people and some people were telling us that they hadn’t received the Zoom invitation for choir this week.
What happened?
We discovered that the website has determined on its own that some people’s memberships had expired and many of you were removed from the membership list!
Nobody paid fees this year so I’m not sure what happened.
Carol is looking into it and trying to get everyone back on the membership list.
If you’ve been getting the emails and have wondered if it’s really necessary to join these Monday night choir things, please do join us and you will be glad you did. They’re not rehearsals for a concert but I do think they’re important.
I’ll write more on this later this week.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for the link on a Monday night, go to the calendar and you’ll find the link there. Double click and you’ll be there with us. The PDFs for the music will be there too.
More instructions to follow.With Harvest behind us and autumn beginning, thoughts turn towards other events, such as Reformation Day, Bonfire Night, and Remembrance. The grand and glorious comforts of the Psalms have notable connections with all these events. The Psalm which begins with the verse above was a particular favourite of a man I knew who gave his entire life to missionary work in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He served during World War Two, flying in the RAF and facing terrible danger, yet all the time convinced that God would keep him for the purpose of reaching the lost, which indeed He did.
Such is the privilege of every child of God, from Apostles and Early Fathers, to giants of the Reformation like Luther and Calvin, through all passages of time, unto us in the present day. We may have the same unshakeable confidence in our Sovereign God who has sent His only Son that we might have everlasting life. But we need to ‘dwell in the secret place’ just as those who have walked the pilgrim path before us. This is the ‘everyday’ reality of the ‘extraordinary’ Christian life!L’amplesso, 1975 is an example of the use of photographic reproduction on canvas within Mimmo Rotella’s practice, a technique which he begun working with in 1963 in a