Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

Mark Hillary in 2009

Mark Hillary (also known as Kobayashi-Hillary) is a British journalist, blogger, and editor based in São Paulo, Brazil - he is the chief executive officer of research company IT Decisions.^[1] He lectures at London South Bank University.^[2][3] He is a founding member of the BCS Working group on Offshoring.^[4] He is on the board of the BCS ELITE group.^[5] Tom Hickman has named his blog, one of "20 Blogs About Outsourcing Worth Subscribing To".^[6]

He was temporarily blocked at YouTube for copyright infringement.^[7]

Until I lost 900 videos, I never actually considered there was anything unsafe about trusting a company such as Google 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.^[8]

Hillary most regularly writes for the Huffington Post and Reuters, in addition to his own magazine, IT Decisions. He was "BT Storyteller" for the London 2012 Olympics^[9]

Awards

• 2009 Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards shortlist^[10][11]
• 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, 15 December 2009
• "Why we're all going to India", The Observer, 4 April 2004
• "Quem Mexeu no Meu Emprego?", Lulu.com, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4452-3125-9
• Who Moved my Job?, Lulu.com, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-2461-7
• Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field, Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Richard Sykes, British Computer Society, 2007, ISBN 978-1-902505-83-1
• Building a future with BRICs: the next decade for offshoring, Editor Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-46453-2
• Outsourcing to India: the offshore advantage, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20855-6
• Reality Check: Life in Brazil through the eyes of a foreigner, Amazon, 2013, ASIN: B00EXBM4X8

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 destination and how to go about finding the right local partner to work with.^[12]

[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.^[13]

References

1. http://www.ssonetwork.com/content.aspx?id=7680
2. https://phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk/php5/person.php?name=kobayashi-hillary.m
3. https://phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk/php5/department_list.php?deptname=Management&fac=Business
4. http://www.cpaglobal.com/newlegalreview/3184/legal_outsourcing_to_deliver_historical_legacy
5. http://www.steria.com/exchange/?page_id=2
6. http://www.masonworld.com/blogging/20-blogs-about-outsourcing-worth-subscribing-to/
7. "Is it time to defend our rights?", BBC News, 2 March 2010
8. "Is YouTube's three-strike rule fair to users? ", BBC News, 21 May 2010
9. Gordon Poole Agency
10. http://www.slideshare.net/faisalalani/computer-weekly-blog-awards-winners
11. http://www.itpreport.com/default.asp?Mode=Show&A=2161&R=GL
12. http://www.bpoindia.org/knowledgeBase/mark-lonely-planet-review.shtml
13. http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.25492

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