U.S. Engineers At A Disadvantage

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Risks of Out-sourced and Off-shored Projects

There is an ACM paper that discusses these risks @ www.tinyurl.com/5wfzua.

The Top 10 Risks are:

1. Lack of top management commitment
2. Original set of requirements is miscommunicated
3. Language barriers in project communication
4. Inadequate user involvement
5. Lack of offshore project management know-how by client
6. Failure to manage end-user expectations
7. Poor change controls
8. Lack of business known-how by offshore teams
9. Lack of required technical know-how by offshore team
10. Failure to consider all costs

IT Challenges in India

From the Forbes Magazine:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/29/mitra-india-outsourcing-tech-enter-cx_sm_0229outsource_print.html

and its rebuttal:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/mitra-india-outsourcing-tech-enter-cx_pf_0305outsource_print.html

Salaries in India

From the Forbes Magazine:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/20/hewitt-india-salaries-markets-econ-cx_rd_0220markets01_print.html

and

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/20/hewitt-india-salaries-markets-econ-cx_rd_0220markets01_print.html

Wipro Goes West

Wipro Ltd. is eyeing expansion in Europe and the U.S. as part of the next phase of globalization. The $5 billion IT services firm plans to open two new software development centers in the U.S. and is studying a sizable acquisition in technology R&D in Germany.

Offshoring of Jobs

This is an influential study by Alan Blinder published by the Foreign Affairs magazine - a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.internationaltraderelations.com/Blinder.Offshoring%20(Foreign%20Affairs,%20March-April%202006).pdf

Listen to this video whereby he explains why he thinks free trade has made an estimated 30 million to 40 million U.S. jobs vulnerable to outsourcing.

http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=c5RHfCVOvBZ4P8vf6P8IyxpkzZ7AMrPn