Here's another consequence of outsourcing.
 http://www.cio.com/archive/101503/shrinking.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Yeo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing!!


 In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Gates, Scott"
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>In Information Week, One IT VP stated "You have to articulate your needs
>with foreign companies".
>
>That's certainly good practice anywhere, but, to use a cab driver analogy:
>if fly into New York City, I expect the cabbie who picks me up to know the
>Empire State Building, Times Square, Central Park, and all the main roads
>without me having to give turn by turn directions.
>

You obviously have much better luck with the cab drivers you get at New
York airports than I do.  I now assume they don't speak English and
don't know how to get anywhere other than Manhattan.

I now always take a map with me and show them where I want to get to.

Interesting the analogy is rather like the programming one. If I wanted
something done in house, I might have to do nothing more than outline to
someone what I wanted and expect them to use their knowledge to complete
it. Rather like saying to a good taxi driver take me to....

However If I wanted it written out of house, I would certainly have to
spend a vast amount of effort specifying exactly what I wanted, and be
prepared to do a lot more checking of the results. Rather like taking a
cab at JFK....

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