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Marco Tapia
Are we getting poorer? Our productivity numbers indicate so.
I began to study and write about Productivity back in 2011 at the pick of the mining boom in Australia. Although our national wealth increased during that time, our productivity has been declining from even earlier than…
Offshoring to countries with rates at slave levels and repatriating profits to tax havens…. Our kid's future is bleak . A bit of reflection before XMAS.
Just a bit of a XMAS reflection… Offshoring to slave rates countries and repatriating profits to tax havens…. Our kid's future is bleak A good friend of mine called me to see if my company could provide his son with…
Business future lies in cloud technology ?
My colleague David Booth recently wrote a nice article about Public Cloud Computing. This can be found here. David's article is timely and confirmed by the statement that Business Future lies in Cloud Technology as…
Are you still using tapes for your company backups? They were common in the 90's
During the 1990's, tape was the best technology available for backing up and archiving computer data. But today there's a better technology - cloud storage. The cloud is a network of servers that lets companies store…
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed?
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed? The Australian Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has said that the "vacancies for local IT workers were decreasing and that real wages in the IT sector…
Offshoring is finally dead !
Offshoring is finally dead. ! Well, according to Gartner (Predict 2013) and my own experience by talking to business people returning from a bad offshoring experience; there are strong indications that offshoring is…