{"id":1913,"date":"2009-01-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/the-horses-spawns-a-partner-think-global\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:14:00","slug":"the-horses-spawns-a-partner-think-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/the-horses-spawns-a-partner-think-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horses spawns a partner:  Think Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/outsourcing\/\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AMR-Research\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e2010536c4553a970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e2010536c4553a970b-800wi.jpg\" style=\"MARGIN: 6px\" title=\"AMR-Research\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"COLOR: #525330; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">Amigos &#8211; I&#39;m excited to announce the launch of a sister-blog to <em>Horses for Sources <\/em>: here ariseth <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/outsourcing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"COLOR: #525330; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">&quot;<span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">Think Global<\/span>&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"COLOR: #525330; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">, with focus on global delivery strategy, BPO, supply chain and IT services trends.&#0160; My firm, AMR Research (God bless &#39;em) has admirably tolerated the <em>Horses&#0160;<\/em>for a long time now, until finally asking if I&#39;ll consider extending my verbosity to our research content, to which many of you do not gain access.&#0160; I&#39;ve kicked this off with complimentary access to a new research article entitled <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/outsourcing\/2009\/01\/beware-of-myopic-cost-cutting-use-outsourcing-to-be-more-competitive-in-this-economy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"COLOR: #525330; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">&quot;<span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">Beware of Myopic Cost Cutting: Use Outsourcing To Be More Competitive in This Economy<\/span>&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"COLOR: #525330; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">I&#39;ve always used the <em>Horses <\/em>platform as an outlet to knock around views, cultivate ideas and take the industry temperature.&#0160; So many of you have been part of that.&#0160; And, while&#0160;we might&#0160;not always have been 100% accurate, we&#39;ve&#0160;collectively&#0160;generated so many gems of insight that I frequently read&#0160;our commentary to add some color to what I am thinking &#8211; and I know many of you do the same.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/03\/how-is-the-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">The power of the blogsphere<\/span><\/a><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\"> is truly extending to the analyst world.&#0160; And while some of the other analyst firms have pushed their blog strategies for a while now, I am (for once) going to brag that none of them have come close to&#0160;cracking the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/09\/where-do-blogs-best-fit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">blogging code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">.&#0160; Over here we have, and it&#39;s time to take it mainstream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\"><em>Horses<\/em> will not be going away, but will run in tandem with Think Global.&#0160; I hope you take a little time to pay a visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">While you&#39;re there, please also check out the blogs from&#0160;a couple of AMR&#39;s industry legends, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/enterprisesoftware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">Bruce Richardson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/supplychain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">Kevin O&#39;Marah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">.&#0160; I&#39;ll see you over there&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS\">PF.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amigos &#8211; I&#39;m excited to announce the launch of a sister-blog to Horses for Sources : here ariseth &quot;Think 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