http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant Comment Feed for Don Tennant Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:04:16 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-12T18:04:16Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55103 It seems like Infosys would just take a stance that it has no policy to mis-use visas as there seems no explicit documentation of that nature. The organisation would make specific employees as a scape goat in this matter. Between the time the case was Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:04:16 GMT Amit http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55103 2012-02-12T18:04:16Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-i-regret-buying-an-iphone/?cs=39530#comment-55093 The iPhone4 has a superfast 1GHz Apple A4 processor but it does have problems and some games do not run smoothly. Moreover, 512MB of RAM is not considered enough by most especially when there are so many phones out there with 1GB of RAM. Add to this, Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:01:25 GMT pneumonia contagious http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-i-regret-buying-an-iphone/?cs=39530#comment-55093 2012-02-11T08:01:25Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55089 This CEO is obviously bigoted.  Again I pity any investors that get tangled with him.  His company lost value during his tenure, by pure luck he was able to waltz out (but not without significant loss of share holder value and opportunity Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:03:27 GMT jake_leone http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55089 2012-02-11T03:03:27Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55086 "So we're taking some of our youngest..."???? Youngest???? Are any lawyers reading your blog, Don? Where did they get the idea that 'youngest' was a predictor of productivity and trainability? I completed a Master's at 52 and am back in grad school for Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:51:58 GMT Dolores http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55086 2012-02-11T01:51:58Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55080 Here is one interesting education rate analyzed among OECD member countries...   http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/2/48631582.pdf   Got the pdf from   Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:50:18 GMT ITJob http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55080 2012-02-10T20:50:18Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55073 I spoke with him at the Brainshare conference in Salt Lake City in March 2008, so the year he was talking about would have been March 2007 to March 2008. Note that not all of the new people would have been Americans ... he said later in the interview Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:01:05 GMT DonTennant http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55073 2012-02-10T18:01:05Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55071 Don, I should have asked what year did Hovsepian replace a quarter of his workforce? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:04:41 GMT Jake_Leone http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55071 2012-02-10T17:04:41Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55070 Don what year did you talk with this guy?  This is significant, because he was able to replace a quarter of his engineering workforce.  If a Tech CEO can do that, why on Earth does Obama believe that U.S. Engineers are hard to find?   The Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:03:29 GMT Jake_Leone http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55070 2012-02-10T17:03:29Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55069 If 25% of your companies employees "aren't a good fit" then clearly management has failed along the lines.    They complain that there aren't enough IT people with solid business skills, so they push us into the roles of programmer-analyst, Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:38:21 GMT R. Lawson http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738#comment-55069 2012-02-10T16:38:21Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55068 H1-b has conveniently become a scapegoat for some people who 1. can't get a job because they can't and 2. those who can get a job but won't.   Mr Wedel's problem is not with H1-Bs but with his circumstance (#2). Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:57:03 GMT GeorgeArchitect http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55068 2012-02-10T15:57:03Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55065 Grassley's letter is great but did he put effort to understand the reason behind Mr.Wedel not able to get job?   Nothing wrong to expect a job in my home town but if I couldn't find one for 3yrs then I should know I'm living in wrong location for Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:39 GMT ITJob http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55065 2012-02-10T14:56:39Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/dumb-and-dumber-no-voter-id-required-no-national-id-allowed/?cs=49665#comment-55064 The reason a valid ID is not required to vote in most states is simple: The politicians WANT the illegals to vote. Do you actually think that the Latino vote block would be as significant if only the citizens of Latino descent were allowed to vote? As Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:39:02 GMT SP http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/dumb-and-dumber-no-voter-id-required-no-national-id-allowed/?cs=49665#comment-55064 2012-02-10T14:39:02Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55063 So you're telling me that the reason Americans are not hired is because they don't have a caste? AYKM!! Wonder what would happen if we stopped all new visa activity for a while- they're gonna HAVE to hire locals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:28:13 GMT SP http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55063 2012-02-10T14:28:13Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/mba-grad-take-heart-unless-you-re-female/?cs=47473#comment-55062 Thank you for this interesting and useful article! Three years ago I've took a mba in operations management and it was very difficult for me to get a good job. I've participated to a lot of interviews but I didn't have success until three months ago Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:54:07 GMT User2037809 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/mba-grad-take-heart-unless-you-re-female/?cs=47473#comment-55062 2012-02-10T13:54:07Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55051 "MS,Google, Oracle- all these companies were started here- Why are so many of their employees non-American?"   This is a key question and the status quo will not change until more American customers and individual/institutional investors of these Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:13:11 GMT IAmNumber813 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55051 2012-02-10T06:13:11Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55045 Grassley's letter is going straight to the circular file. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:14:38 GMT hoapres http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55045 2012-02-10T01:14:38Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55038 While it definitely sounds like there's more going on here than visa infractions, I think this whole issue highlights the urgent need to streamline U.S. visa regulations. Byzantine policies only encourage illegal behavior. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:35 GMT Elsa http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721#comment-55038 2012-02-09T23:01:35Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55030 It's not just the Indian Corporations- IBM, Accenture, Cap-Gemini- all of them engage in the B-1 violations. As long as they don't bill the client for the B-1 guy, they seem to think they can get away with it. And they do succeed in open competition- Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:06 GMT SP http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698#comment-55030 2012-02-09T18:30:06Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/biggest-story-of-2012-implosion-of-h-1b-business-model/?cs=49410#comment-55025 H1-B visa is just half the pie. I don't know why there isn't a closer scrutiny of the L1 visa which is even more rife with abuse because 1. It has no limits (eg, companies like TCS had shifted to LCA visas a long time ago). 2. it doesn't require a labor Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:57:00 GMT GeorgeArchitect http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/biggest-story-of-2012-implosion-of-h-1b-business-model/?cs=49410#comment-55025 2012-02-09T16:57:00Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/now-s-the-time-to-specialize-in-mobile/?cs=43847#comment-55021 Just found this and how right you was back then Don. Mobile is such a big player on the internet that every company should have a special mobile site. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:18 GMT Samsha http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/now-s-the-time-to-specialize-in-mobile/?cs=43847#comment-55021 2012-02-09T16:10:18Z