11-13-2006, 02:27 AM
<!--emo&:bhappy--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_woot.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_woot.gif' /><!--endemo--> US senator outsources speech to India
Mini Joseph Tejaswi
[ 13 Nov, 2006 0010hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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BANGALORE: Last year, the UK government is said to have outsourced a pre and post election related work to a business processing organisation (BPO) firm in Bangalore.
Now, a republican senator, Frank Morse, in Portland, Oregon, read out a speech on ââThe Impact of Globalisation on Oregon Economyââ written by another outsourcing provider in Bangalore.
It might sound quite ironical, considering the amount of anti-outsourcing rhetoric raised across the US and UK. But the fact is that, the waves of outsourcing have been hitting the political power corridors of these dominating economies in the world.
Well, thatâs the power of outsourcing, a virtual hammer that beats the fat, round world into a flat platter.
Thatâs why, Brickwork Indiaâs captain, Vivek Kulkarni, could sit here and put down a well researched speech copy for a United States politician, who is thousands of miles away. Being a technocrat cum entrepreneur, whatâs Kulkarniâs expertise to draft a political speech?
"I have written dozens of speeches for former chief minister of Karnataka S M Krishna, who was also the IT minister, when I was the IT secretary. So when senator Morse, who is also a big industrialist, approached us, we knew what to do. We took a couple of weeks to do it, after studying the senatorâs earlier speeches to familiarise his style,"
he said. But again, Kulkarni and his team had to work hard since it was a business speech by a politician.
A lot of preparation was needed, apart from culling out a lot of ground-level, local, specific information. Thomas Friedman's book 'The World is Flat' seems to have worked as a global signboard for Brickwork. It was through this book the senator learnt of this company.
Brickwork subscribes to a lot of databases, McKinsey, Harvard Press journals, all leading business, trade,
industry magazines, all major foreign news papers, publication and business magazines.
Also, the internet comes handy as a research point. "But again, it will not give you everything," said Kulkarni.
Mini Joseph Tejaswi
[ 13 Nov, 2006 0010hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
BANGALORE: Last year, the UK government is said to have outsourced a pre and post election related work to a business processing organisation (BPO) firm in Bangalore.
Now, a republican senator, Frank Morse, in Portland, Oregon, read out a speech on ââThe Impact of Globalisation on Oregon Economyââ written by another outsourcing provider in Bangalore.
It might sound quite ironical, considering the amount of anti-outsourcing rhetoric raised across the US and UK. But the fact is that, the waves of outsourcing have been hitting the political power corridors of these dominating economies in the world.
Well, thatâs the power of outsourcing, a virtual hammer that beats the fat, round world into a flat platter.
Thatâs why, Brickwork Indiaâs captain, Vivek Kulkarni, could sit here and put down a well researched speech copy for a United States politician, who is thousands of miles away. Being a technocrat cum entrepreneur, whatâs Kulkarniâs expertise to draft a political speech?
"I have written dozens of speeches for former chief minister of Karnataka S M Krishna, who was also the IT minister, when I was the IT secretary. So when senator Morse, who is also a big industrialist, approached us, we knew what to do. We took a couple of weeks to do it, after studying the senatorâs earlier speeches to familiarise his style,"
he said. But again, Kulkarni and his team had to work hard since it was a business speech by a politician.
A lot of preparation was needed, apart from culling out a lot of ground-level, local, specific information. Thomas Friedman's book 'The World is Flat' seems to have worked as a global signboard for Brickwork. It was through this book the senator learnt of this company.
Brickwork subscribes to a lot of databases, McKinsey, Harvard Press journals, all leading business, trade,
industry magazines, all major foreign news papers, publication and business magazines.
Also, the internet comes handy as a research point. "But again, it will not give you everything," said Kulkarni.