One of the appealing features of consulting as a job is the variety it provides in the people you work with, the problems you face and company cultures you get to experience. Having to work with different sets of office applications across this array of experiences can be edifying or frustrating. On-line meeting tools are …
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Another data disclosure fiasco is in the news now. Data from fitness monitors is apparently giving away troop and base locations around the globe. It is somewhat surprising given the frequency of disclosures like this that a fairly significant deadline concerning information security just passed by with hardly any notice. The deadline was for any …
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Last June the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a report called “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.” Its vision for the future is of an “interoperable health IT ecosystem [that] makes the right data available to the right …
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It seems almost quaint in the day of Google and Amazon hegemony but there used to be a lapel button around that said “Earth, a subsidiary of Microsoft.” That firm’s quest for world domination has been replaced by a struggle to maintain relevance at least in some product spheres. One area where they are not …
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The 6th annual World BPO/ITO Forum was held July 17th and 18th in New York City. Conference attendees represented buyers, sellers and, like Hydrakos Consulting, advisors of outsourcing services for technology and operations from around the world. Present were firms from India and China as well as some places not on the top of the …
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THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMPANY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (NICSA) BLOG HERE. Some numbers get your attention. When shares of the IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) giant, Infosys fell by 21% on a single day in April, it could have seemed an ominous sign for the firm and the outsourcing industry …
