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Interview with Declan, Project Programme Manager - Dublin. "Bringing this project up to the starting line is a story in itself however I can say we had a great start. A really compelling prototype, demonstrated all the key functionality; web access, cloud data, simple workflow, fine grained ownership with security, reporting, detailed versioning, multilingual. We demonstrated the capacity to delivery a key internal service to the global company. You don't really need to know too much about the detail." "The initial prototype was a joint production between Santa Monica (US) and Dublin, we pitched the project at our quarterly Knowledge Exchange event. In the company we call this kind of bidding process 'outsourcing inside'. We ended up with bids from three other groups, from our offices in Cairo (Egypt), Pune (India) and Langfang (China). Some of them signed up as 50% 'own time', the others were full-time. Cairo provided full-time developers, Langfang a...

Edited transcript of narrative style interview with Peter Forman, Executive CIO of International European Bank (IEB). SB (State Bank, Ireland) had been purchased by IEB one year previously and had recently rebranded to IEB and achieved full systems integration with its parent. IEB had also recently acquired Lokalny Bank Polska (LBP) and LBP's Baltic branch network. Identities and names anonymised. "IEB is a leading player in Northern Europe; we reached this place through organic growth and well chosen acquisitions over the past ten years. What is interesting thing about us is we really don’t have an IT organisation. We have a development organisation! And my responsibility isn’t really IT, it’s product, process and systems so on. Some things in the lower stack of IT operations have become a commodity, like IT operations, like how you handle a notebook like this (pointing to his laptop computer). We’re not differentiating ourselves on that. However, financial services are one ...

The following survey aims to establish the level of knowledge and experience of virtual teams and their supporting tool-technology combinations among the survey group. The survey is an adaptation of the one carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit in the report "Managing virtual teams Taking a more strategic approach" in 2009. What are the primary challenges of managing a virtual team? What are most important for creating a successful virtual team? What device-and-tool combinations do you regularly use to communicate and collaborate with your virtual team? How often do members of your virtual team meet face-to-face? Which of the following best represents the amount of time you spend working within virtual team(s), as opposed to local/physical teams? Click here to take survey

Let's say you are reading a case study but you aren't sure how to deal with it. On the one hand perhaps the case study presents basic statements of facts, or perhaps the case presents so much rich context that it is difficult to see the underlying challenges. Each case usually includes some leading questions that you can choose to answer and you can extrapolate and investigate wider issues on your own initiative. One of the goals is to respond and recommend based on evidence, usually evidence you will have gathered yourself (aka research). Consider case analysis as a process in which the learner poses or structures the problem, explores and shapes solutions to the problem. A reflective turn on the "case as a process" raises the circumstance where the "problems" that the case raises can be construed as personal knowledge gaps. Problem solving implies an underlying personal process of learning. When a learner asks "why?" Often the last thing they wan...

The objective stated in PACE's original business plan was to give client companies access to best-in-area programming and testing capability through offshore outsourcing to India. PACE's strategy leverages their own specialised knowledge and capabilities to manage globally distributed engineering teams. They deliver talented people, lower costs, and faster turnaround for software projects. PACE applies a 2-stage model for client onshore/offshore transitions (figure 1); the first year of the contract is conducted onshore working closely with the client on-site after which the project transitions swiftly to an off-shore operation. The value proposition to clients is threefold and simple: project cycle time, management overhead and employee cost reductions will occur because the Indian team has access to more people, at lower cost, and working across European and American time zones. An added benefit is that project work continues around the clock if necessary. (figure 1. PACE lif...

Draft Exam Timetable MIS40690 Managing Global Sourcing  Day: Monday 09/05/2016  Time: 18:00 - 20:00  Duration: two hours Location: RDS Simmonscourt Road

The actors ACS: the Australian Customs Service. Murray Harrison: (a public servant) CIO for Australian Customs, 2002-. Chris Ellison: (Liberal politician) the Federal Government Customs Minister, 2001-2007. Eric Roozendaal (Labour  politician ) Ports Minister for the state of NSW, 2006-2007.  Joe Ludwig:  (Labour  politician ) Senator.  Opposition Shadow Minister for Ports 2004-2007 Tradegate Australia Ltd: Established in 1989 as an industry representative body to develop and implement e-commerce services for Australia's international trade and transport industry.  EDS: Ross Perot's international IT consultancy and outsourcing supplier.  ICS: the Integrated Cargo System (ICS), part of the CMR project. CMR: the Cargo Management Reengineering programme initiated by the ACS.  COMPILE: The ACS system for managing import declarations, duty/tariff transactions, quarantine and bonding. EXIT: The ACS system for managing export declarations and clearances....