Remember Stop Jumping on the Band Wagon and use Common Sense and Context.
Great idea and money saver IF someone ALREADY does what do you CHEAPLY and EFFICIENTLY. Also IF, the functions you are currently performing
are not strategic to your companies success.
May I ask what law firm you are using. I guess if you are Dupont, I need not ask.
Giving Away the Farm
I'm probably a little bias but I don't get the recent trend of outsourcing software development. Sorry, I just don't.
In my humble opinion, software is a companies intellectual property and competitive advantage.
This maybe simplisic but have you ever thought of hiring qualified programmers or maybe even tried a little thing like retention? Or are executives afraid of making the same mistake again of going on the consulting craze - paying riduleous hourly rates they won't even pay their own people. What makes you think you they're going to do it any better or faster than you?
Let's put this into perspective. During the dotcom boom, companies in the US had their lobbists dramatically increase H-1B visas. Possible conspiracy theory. CEO's being the strategic ones deduced that with the backlash and events of 9/11, instead of sponsoring/importing cheaper workers, they save themselves the headaches and cost by just outsourcing to Russia, India and China. It only makes sense - doesn't it.
I can totally agree with the outsourcing non-strategic things such as manufacturing. The reason is you're giving your outsourcing "partner" only the hardware but NOT the software/fimware that makes it work.
Now you are teaching them to fish!!! So what happens when developers from foreign countries are more entrepenurial and start up their own businesses to say develop switching software. Well, they've got the foundation because they've worked on Cisco's OS.
What will become of a companies ability to innovate? What will this do to software houses?
After months of speculation about the inevitability of the offshore trend in outsourcing, some impact was inevitable. But few IT professionals could have expected this: Several technology skill areas may actually be getting a boost-compensation-wise-from the failure of offshore outsourcing ventures.
That's the conclusion of a new study from salary researcher and management consultancy Foote Partners LLC, that found premium pay tied specifically to information technology skills was also boosted by employers concerned about retaining skilled employees-and staving off cut-throat competition for top IT consulting talent. All told, Foote Partners claims to have surveyed 45,000 IT workers and 1,860 North American and European employers.
"Our research has found unmistakable evidence of a turnaround in pay for several skills over the past six months, in particular those associated with networking, messaging, groupware, and applications development," said David Foote, president and chief research officer for Foote Partners, in a statement. "Overall, our findings indicate the reemergence of talent wars, but on a smaller scale than in the past and more industry focused, particularly the IT professional services business."
Outsourcing Education
Outsourcing Facts
One Singaporean worker costs as much as three in Malaysia, eight in Thailand, thirteen in China, eighteen in India.
Tom Peters, The Off-Shoring Manifesto - November 2, 2004
Predictions
Outsourcing Losing its Glamour - While the charm of offshore seems to be fading, the lessons learned from this exercise are being integrated into corporate IT strategies - effective project and contract management as well as collaboration - resulting in more distributed teams of programmers.
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