by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Wanted: Good Jobs, Made in America is a great summary of the “outsourcing isn’t a problem because only a tiny bit of the consumer purchase price goes to China” argument. Read on.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Government, Personal, Reading
Der Spiegel is convinced that the financial sector is once again an imminent threat to the world economy. (As I wrote that I found myself wondering if financial markets were the world economy. They aren’t of course, just as the occasional shutting down of...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2011 | Business
I guess outsourcing can lead to a death spiral for companies. I wonder why the example is of Dell, which I think is still going, though losing market share. The more interesting question is whether the radical management ideas recommended are solutions to this issue....
by Tom | Aug 11, 2011 | Business
Recruitment 4.0. Targeted at mainstream recruitment rather than search, but still a bit of a mind-futz. I’m not sure crowdsourcing is going to be as useful as the author suggests, but the increasing gamification of jobs and activities I can see. Companies...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Tencent: March of the Penguins. Fascinating summary of one of the major Chinese social networking and gaming platforms. Unbelievable scale (2.3m concurrent gamers at peak times) and some less-well-known VCs involved. I still can’t understand why there is this...
by Tom | Jul 18, 2011 | Business, Personal, Reading
Congratulations to Tom for winning The Apprentice. I think the Grauniad was a little snipy. Pellereau won, essentially, because he had the least rubbish idea, wasn’t completely objectionable and might make Sugar money. It’s not exactly a ringing...
