Quotable Quotes

Quote from Bill Gates (April 1999 issue of Time)

"As a business manager, you need to take a hard look at your core competencies. Revisit the areas of your company that aren't directly involved in those competencies, and consider whether Web technologies can enable you to spin off those tasks. Let another company take over the management responsibilities for that work, and use modern communication technology to work closely with the people - now partners instead of employees are doing the work. In the Web work style, employees can push the freedom the Web provides to its limits."

Quote from Inc. (Magazine January 1999)

In their book Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Harvard Business Press), Mui and co-author Larry Downes urge companies to perform internally only those activities that can't be performed more cheaply in the open marketplace. When the marketplace in question is the Internet, where vendors with only "dot com" over their head can operate at very low costs, the savings from pushing out business tasks is considerable.

70:70:70 rule of GE (Source: "Business World", MARCH 2000)

The world's most revered chief executive Jack Welch has introduced a new rule. It is called the 70:70:70 rule. Apparently, it has also been e-mailed to GE employees across the world. Welch has decided that 70% of GE's work will be outsourced. Out of this, 70% will be done from offshore development centers. And out of this, about 70% will have to be done here in India. This ultimately boils down to about 30% of GE's work being outsourced to India.