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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. [James Baldwin]
In IT outsourcing one does not need to go too far to get ultimately familiar with its ugly side. However, despite all disappointments and failures I honestly believe in offshore capacity and its positive impact on the industry. I’ve seen enough success stories to continue using offshore resources myself and recommend it to others. Offshore outsourcing is one of most powerful weapons in technical leaders arsenal. And like any other powerful weapon it requires careful handling and great deal of knowledge in its use and application. Ugly enough even slight mistakes in its utilization could cost companies enormous pain and expense and technical leaders their reputation and career.
The goal of this blog is to bring to everyone involved in offshore outsourcing my 5 T’s – Thoughts, Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Traps of outsourcing. I hope you find it helpful.
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IT Outsourcing ‘09 Predictions
Hip hip hooray, the crystal ball is unveiled, and early predictions for offhshoring are out - IT Offshore Outsourcing: Early Predictions for 2009. Looks like there will be more business coming to the offshore vendors despite all the economic turmoil. I bet the jury is still out, as a matter of fact, the survey of 230 CIOs must have taken some time to process and summarize. The figures we are seeing today (DOW at 7500) are based on the data which probably goes back at least a few months (when DOW was let’s say at 12000).
My predictions are on a negative side, nowadays more than before, I expect notable deflation of offshoring business that will hit hard small suppliers in particular. I am sure we’ll see a wave of unpaid invoices, team buy-backs, and price wars.
Finding local employees may become easier as well, and that’s has been one of strong offshore drivers. Especially considering that things are getting quite gloom and doom even in the IT employment heaven: California’s unemployment rate jumped to 8.2 percent in October, the highest rate in 14 years, just as a state fund that pays unemployment benefits was about to run out of money…
November 21, 2008 Posted by Nick Krym | News, Articles, Thoughts and Comments, Uncategorized | Offshore Current Affairs | No Comments