Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Icebergs and sinking ships This is the point in the story where most advisors, consultants and offshore outsourcing vendors will start preaching the mantra that prevention is the best cure. Not a single CIO will disagree with that premise, but such a recital isn’t helpful when the iceberg has already hit and the ship has…
Failed deliverables from offshore outsourcers are a common experience as evidenced by the size and number of LinkedIn discussions, other social media and community posts, and court queues. There are, of course, numerous excuses rendered, few accepted, and passionate arguments on both sides. But when you cut through the noise and look at what you’re…
All eyes have been on Egypt for weeks now yet few saw it as the beginning of the end of offshore outsourcing as we know it. “Had India unplugged the Internet, companies worldwide would be hard at work reconfiguring their offshoring strategy,” said Barry Carter, a CIO for 10 years at AirTran, Capital One, UnitedHealth…
There’s no end in sight for the jobless recovery in business functions such as corporate finance and IT, in large part due to the accelerated movement of work to India and other offshore locations, according to new research from The Hackett Group. The dramatic job losses seen by U.S. and European companies in 2008 and…
Offshoring appeared to make sense in pre-recession days when customers were viewed as commodities and local job preservation as little more than a quaint notion. Then along came a global recession that made cost-savings a grim necessity and offshoring neatly fit the bill. Post recession, consumer behaviors and opinions are shifting radically and offshoring is…
In order to stay competitive, companies in Europe and US will continue to shed IT and other back office jobs, according to a new study of 4,000 billion-dollar firms by the Hackett Group. Over the next five years, corporate IT will shift an additional 583,000 jobs to lower-cost nations. This is on top of IT…
This series of five articles takes a closer look at software development, the reasons for failure and how to avoid them. As we wrap up this series on managing software development projects, one final factor to consider is location. The Internet, messaging, collaboration software and videoconferencing make it easy to unite users and developers into…
If walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck then it’s probably a duck. So, in this instance, if you think your company is outsourcing more and it makes sense for your company to outsource more to save money and your job is being outsourced to India, well, then your…