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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Aug 2nd

By guest author Tony Scott Does “The End of Software” Demand New Leadership Skills? Tony: My friend Tim Chou, who set up Oracle’s on-demand applications business, wrote a great book called “The End of Software” about how software will be sold and delivered in the future. Do you think that we are starting to see

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Building Successful Global Teams (Part 3)

Posted on Monday, May 25th

By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Success The series finishes with a couple of success stories: We were asked by one of the world’s largest Japanese technology companies to help them find someone to lead their corporate VC organization, which is based in the U.S. The corporate VC organization’s

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Building Successful Global Teams (Part 2)

Posted on Sunday, May 24th

By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Failure A VC that we frequently work with asked our firm to take a look at a very interesting optical networking company in Silicon Valley with truly breakthrough technology they were considering funding. When we went to visit the company, we found that

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Building Successful Global Teams (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, May 17th

By Guest Author Tony Scott In the recent past, in the US, Europe and Asia, there were simply too many companies chasing too few people — resulting in across-the-board shortages of the human capital skills necessary to build and grow technology companies. In the US, working for an Asian or European company was often viewed

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