Posts Tagged ‘China’

Mark Kobayashi-Hillary – Edited presentation from ‘Talking Outsourcing’ book launch in London

February 19, 2010 - 8:32 am No Comments

The edited highlights of Mark Kobayashi-Hillary talking about the launch of his new book Talking Outsourcing on October 1 at London South Bank University in central London.

Mark opens by discussing the recession, as money is thrown over the audience. He plays football with the audience when discussing the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. He changes shirt four times during the presentation, and he ends up serving McDonalds food to the audience when talking about self-service outsourcing from the cloud.

The globalisation and migration expert, Philippe Legrain, and BPO Strategy Director of French hi-tech service firm Steria, Hilary Robertson, joined Mark at this presentation. The event was organised by the National Outsourcing Association in the UK.

For more information on the book, take a look at:
talkingoutsourcing(dot)com

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Nairobi to Shenzhen

November 18, 2009 - 9:21 am 25 Comments

http://www.ntv.co.ke
Today (Wednesday) marks the first anniversary of the election of Barack Obama as US president . The international community paid particularly close attention to Obama’s presidential campaign and the election of 2008. During his first year in office, he has grappled with pressing global issues. In the meantime, a half-brother of U.S. president Barrack Obama made a rare appearance in southern China, his home for the past seven years, to launch a novel drawing on his painful childhood under an abusive father. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo — who had the same, late, father as the U.S. President — has kept a low public profile since reports surfaced last year that he was living and working in the southern Chinese capitalist and manufacturing haven of Shenzhen.

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