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...proves its value to more companies, outsourcing will change the way they hire. San Francisco--based DFS Group, a division of luxury-goods maker LVMH that runs duty-free shops in airports around the world, reduced operating expenses about 40% after hiring the outsourcing firm Cognizant, based in Teaneck, N.J., to take over most of its 265-person internal IT operations in 2002. Today those jobs are being done in India. DFS reinvested the savings primarily in better software. "They can add more stores efficiently. They know more about the products in the store," says Ron Glickman, DFS's former...
...almost a question of survival. If they don't develop new products, they'll fail," says Laxmi Narayanan, CEO of Cognizant. Nielsen Media Research, which rates television shows, used Cognizant's programmers in India to develop NetRatings for websites. That new line of business allowed the company to hire sales staff and analysts in the U.S. to interpret the ratings for clients and eventually to start selling the product in Asia. Lightpointe, an optical-networking firm based in San Diego, will add about 10 people to its 75-person staff this year thanks to an arrangement with a company...
...while Martin brought his directing experience to bear on the Huntington’s artistic direction, the decisions he made did not move the company’s artistic vision into the sole hands of the director. So he decided to hire a dramaturg. He began to explore scripts and looked for newness, not in directorial interpretation or adaptation, as has become the hallmark of the ART, but in new texts...
...while Martin brought his directing experience to bear on the Huntington’s artistic direction, the decisions he made did not move the company’s artistic vision into the sole hands of the director. So he decided to hire a dramaturg. He began to explore scripts and looked for newness, not in directorial interpretation or adaptation, as has become the hallmark of the ART, but in new texts...
Forget those traffic-clogged motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike...