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Author(s): Mike Bly, Ph.D. Journal: contractpharmaMarch 2009 Full Article Link: Click Here r... (original story)
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Tom Branna, my editorial director, walked into my office in the summer of 1999, tossed a folder onto my desk, and announced, “Good news! We’re launching a new magazine and you’re going to be the editor!” (That’s how I remember it, although Tom may’ve actually structured it as a “Good ... (original story)
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I was happy to participate in the premier issue of Contract Pharma by writing a column assessing the growth prospects for the pharmaceutical outsourcing industry. Following a robust period of expansion, 1999 had been “punctuated by numerous pricks in the sacred balloon of growth.” Author... (original story)
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Perhaps I am imagining this, but the anti-outsourcing anti-free-trade crowd seems to be contorting the results of the recent election into an endorsement of their anti-free-trade beliefs. Perhaps they are right and perhaps the new Congress will be far more opposed to free-trade. In fact, today someo... (original story)
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Recently there have been a series of articles on Indian companies’ problems with information security and fraud. However, the BPO vendors I personally evaluated in India tended to have as good if not better information security procedures than most US companies. I was recently semi-joking with th... (original story)
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Forrester recently published a report entitled China's Diminishing Offshore Role which has been widely quoted by the likes of Computerworld, Times of India, the Hindu Business Line, and China Economic Review. The Computerworld article says: Forrester Research came out with a report with a rather... (original story)
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It really is a small world! I was talking to a friend on Sunday and it turns out she is an active volunteer for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. She had been a victim of identity fraud and speaking with her gave me a better appreciation for what the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse was talking about in... (original story)
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I have been closely following the current immigration debate and I was disturbed to see illegal immigration and offshore outsourcing discussed in the same breath by many commentators. Let us not confuse the two: the first is illegal, the second is not only legal but in fact any limitations on outsou... (original story)
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this month marks the 10-year anniversary of Contract Pharma. Congratulations to the staff and contributors for a job well done! Since Contract Pharma does such a good job of identifying what the drug development industry is doing and where it is going, I thought this milestone presented an opportun... (original story)
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It seems Nasscom is trying to address the information security perception problem in India by creating a new Data Security Watchdog (as reported in CIO India). The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) is setting up a watchdog organization that will focus on the introduct... (original story)