Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is a British journalist

Journalist

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, blog

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ger, and editor based in São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil - he is the chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

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 of research company IT Decisions. He lectures at London South Bank University

London South Bank University

London South Bank University is a university in south London. With over 25,000 students and 1,700 staff, it is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name...

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He is a director of the UK National Outsourcing Association, and a founding member of the British Computer Society

British Computer Society

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 (BCS) Working group on Offshoring.
He is on the board of the BCS ELITE group. Tom Hickman has named his blog, one of "20 Blogs About Outsourcing Worth Subscribing To".

He was temporarily blocked at YouTube

YouTube

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 for copyright infringement.

Until I lost 900 videos, I never actually considered there was anything unsafe about trusting a company such as Google

Google

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 to protect my data. After all, who keeps photos in a shoebox anymore?

He contacted all three complaining copyright holders. It was only after each one retracted their complaints, that Google reinstated his videos.

Kobayashi-Hillary most regularly writes for the Huffington Post and Reuters, in addition to his own magazine, IT Decisions.

Awards

• 2009 Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards shortlist
• 2011 Top blogger of the year awarded by the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network

Works

• "Prahalad: The brains behind the outsourcing boom", Silicon.com, 29 April 2010
• "Poor software design sabotaging businesses?", Wrench in the System, December 15, 2009
• "Why we're all going to India", The Observer, 4 April 2004
• "Quem Mexeu no Meu Emprego?", Lulu.com, 2009, ISBN 9781445231259
• Who Moved my Job?, Lulu.com, 2008, ISBN 9781409224617
• Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field, Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Richard Sykes, British Computer Society, 2007, ISBN 9781902505831
• Building a future with BRICs: the next decade for offshoring, Editor Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Springer, 2007, ISBN 9783540464532
• Outsourcing to India: the offshore advantage, Springer, 2004, ISBN 9783540208556

Reviews

Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage, a book by Mark Kobayashi-Hillary comes at the right time. It aims to introduce India to the first-timers, the majors players in the Indian service industry, the reasons why one should utilize India as an offshore outsourcing

Offshore outsourcing

Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the products or services are actually developed or manufactured. It can be contrasted with offshoring, in which the functions are performed in a foreign...

destination and how to go about finding the right local partner to work with.

[Who Moved my Job?] is a lightweight short story on outsourcing, which continues to prove that even in these modern times you can still use allegory to make a point. This pocket-sized book is designed to be read in 30 to 40 minutes.
The author has written several books focused on outsourcing, change, and globalisation, but then had an idea that he could use a short story format to illustrate some of his ideas around career change, migration and outsourcing.

External links

• Author's website
• IT Decisions
• Reuters blogs
• Huffington Post blogs
• "Mark Kobayashi-Hillary", ACM blog
• Author's personal blog
• "Recession a catalyst for legal outsourcing", New Legal Review, 13 March 2009
• BBC Technology News - a social media wedding