My experience with outsourcing is that it looks very good to the bean
counters, but it does not necessarily pay off, at least not in the
first 5-6 years (which is a longer horizon than many CFOs seem to have
these days). The start up costs are high, communication can be
challenging, and the new team does not have the product and customer
experiences which are so important when fixing bugs and adding
enhancements.
The team I worked with in India for many years had good people,
hard-working, willing to learn, but it is extremely difficult to learn
the inner-most details of design trade-offs, architectural
intricacies, etc from 8,700 miles away. To add to the challenges, the
team in India tended to be young, recent university graduates, and the
culture there promotes moving around to different companies during the
first 3-4 years of one's career. For us this meant that often after we
trained an engineer in Bangalore, he/she would leave for another job,
and the training had to start all over.
Jeff
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:00 PM, OPENMPE automatic digest system
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner) (2)
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> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:51:29 -0400
> From: janet hiller <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner)
>
> I will assume that all of you that disagreed with me are gainfully employed
> and have never had the demeaning experience of being outsourced. You cannot
> fully understand the impact if it has not happened to you.
>
>
>
> In order to receive some sort of a severance package you must first take
> your many years of experience and hand it over on a silver platter. And,
> the only reason that we were outsourced was to make the VP look good to his
> superiors so that he would get a better bonus next time. Outsourcing had
> very little to do with economics, except his own. The company was doing,
> and is still doing quite well.
>
>
>
> To all you idealists..walk a mile in my shoes.
>
>
>
> Janet Hiller
>
>
>
> PS Why can't India have it's own economy???? Oh, I forgot, they do, it is
> ours.
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> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:57:52 +0000
> From: David T Darnell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner)
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