Offshoring looks so good on paper: Apparently Nimmy the Cackling Hyena is only interested in retaining his off-shore labor force. It looks good on paper. Of course, these people have no clue how to write code, but that doesn't matter anymore. May these executives rot in their own piles.
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The problem no one talks about is that corporate management outsources because of $MONEY$. There are people in the US who can and want to do the jobs, but management (they're not leaders) won't pay the salaries & provide the benefits. As a previous poster said, the PowerPoint looks good so they do it but no one is held accountable when it FAILS: go past deadlines because they don't know the business, don't know American Healthcare, aren't as experienced at coding as promised, & customers are lost for years, along with the company's reputation.
Offshoring to Xxxxx is largely possible because of currency manipulation. They are not smarter or cheaper - it is simply a matter of exchange rates...look at 10yr trends of their currency vs USD.
@csh - Kickbacks are not legal, so I will make an assumption that none of that is happening - you may be personally liable for libel and slender if you alleging something that you cannot prove - I am not saying that you are doing that, I am merely stating that we should keep the board clean and stay away from the stuff that can get us in trouble.
There are much more obvious errors on the management side, things that we should expose and discuss here - and shipping jobs to India is a part of that.
Have to wonder who's getting the kickbacks from Tata
yes, unfortunately it looks good now but companies pay for it because clients leave (due to low service scores). In the end, most transaction related jobs will be done out of India where labor is cheap. I've found thru multiple outsourcing projects that cost savings never really add up to what the presentations told us, but who goes back to check??
No, they're not 'all' offshoring. Some companies have learned hard lessons from their adventures in India and decided to bring development back onshore. McKesson has no interest in learning from its mistakes. They did the same thing with HzERM and ended up with the same result.
Those who forget the lessons of Horizon ERM are doomed to repeat them.
Everyone's offshoring today, cannot avoid it