Technical Advise Week #20/21 - We Did It Again!

Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings!

I guess we did it again and missed our regular weekly commitment. It's really hard to type using small hands and short fingers, but we do our best.

Dad just returned from another successful trip to China. This time he was in Beijing for a series of lectures and meetings with leading outsourcing companies. Later he traveled to Yantai to conduct a series of meetings with leading government officials, including the Deputy Mayor and the Director of the Information Systems Bureau. He even showed up on China/Yantai TV (http://a.jiaodong.net/av/tv/play.asp?contentid=31810). We hope you can see it and we hope that it's not time sensitive. The video is in Chinese but you will get to see Dad with the Deputy Mayor and other officials and also the work location at HighYai Software.

We wish to discuss a little bit about perspectives. Many of the articles and studies conducted on outsourcing are from the domestic perspective. Very few describe or provide insight into the views from the service provider standpoint. One must constantly assess how we can bring together these ventures rather than fire vollies at each other, and then complain about the results. We have read books that promote the concept of the world is flat, but what they don't talk about is that the world isn't what is defined by us, but what is defined by specific cultures. Learning and appreciating other cultures, and doing so with respect is the first step toward bridging the gap.

To close we wish you all peace, here and with our global friends.