Chindia: How China and India are Revolutionizing Global Business.

This book was a great magazine—literally. This is a collection of all the articles from Business Week Magazine about Chindia from the past two years. They’ve collected the articles, added some filler to link them all together and called it a new book.The info in the articles is interesting and the stories of individuals is just as riveting now as it was when it was first printed as semi-factual human interest stories in Business Week. But, it’s not new. It’s not in-depth coverage of any one particular aspect of Chindia and it’s frustratingly simplistic in it’s analysis and has no bibliography.If you’ve been on the moon for the last three years, this will be a great review of popular US sentiment regarding Chindia. But I’m sure that it’s not of much value to anyone that is already in Chindia or doing research on how to best come over.I do like the term “Chindia” though. It’s like everyone at Business Week doesn’t really know enough or care enough to distinguish between the two for the US masses. They both have a ton of people. They’re really big land masses. They’re “stealing” jobs from good honest US citizens. They’re all “foreigners.” Yup, same same. Convenient.But of course there are differences and issues that those in the US ought to be aware of. I think that some current (2007) analysis added to the last few years of hyperbole would be nice. For example, the “large sucking south to the East is not as loud as many, including Business Week are making it out to be. Some of the latest scuttlebutt in IT in the US is that India is running low on people that can actually do what all the hype claims. China, while more prepared infrastructurally, is not only running low on people power but quality issues are hurting their rep as well. While a large number of companies are certainly moving both projects and operations to Chindia, almost as many are readjusting how much and what they send. Poor quality product, difficult communications and missed deadlines are clearly showing Chindia to be a cheaper, but not necessarily better option for everyone.Buy this book if you want to get really excited about Chindia or if you’re a magazine aficionado and just happened to miss the least three years of Business Week. Otherwise, skip it.