Comments on: Offshoring: The next technology battlefields

Digital Agenda Rather than try to reverse the outsourcing wave, the best way for America to fend off foreign competition is to invent technologies.

My Predictions

If Outsourcing is not used in US corporates,
1. The US s/w (i.e oracle, SUN, peoplesoft) will be too expensive for most people whole over the world. They will use open source s/w more & more. Few monopoly companies may survive.
2. The chip market in asia is going crazy, if chips become too expensive(for expensive US products), Korea, Japan & taiwan will supply the needs. In this industry 3 years it all takes to go from 0 to 60 in market share.
3. Cell phone & other markets are any way lead by european giants & now korean samsung & LG.
4. Everybody knows where the automotive market is heading any way.

So wake up, market is getting larger everyday both inside & outside US(i.e. US market is only 30% of total chips, 20% of DSL, 25% of cell phone of world market). If you want to compete out there, you have to have some cost proposition.

The success of US is not just pure technology( remember russians were as good) it is tech + money together what we are good at. So prepare u'r self for the world tour.

-- CA

[Too Old For IT]

Where have all the flowers gone?

First, I am fed to the teeth with all the offshore arrogance that says "you, AMerican, have to be a poverty pocket before the world will like you".

Second, after all the college graduates, PHDs, and IT workers that kept the 90's boom rolling have given up and taken those low-paying jobs changing bedpans, selling hot dogs or hustling progrmas at the ballpark, who will be left to think, change, inovate? And if they do come up with an idea, will they even consider it worth their time?

No, the high paying jobs have to come from American business in order to have the inovation come from America.

Atlas Shrugged is too close to today ...

[yancey burns]

Thanks

it's LATE!!! Au revoir..........

[George Cole]

offshore arrogance

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Offshoring and outsourcing is not innovative

Without innovation, there is no business, period. Offshoring and outsourcing is not, and was never intended to be, innovative.

BPO contracts are getting ever more inclusive, covering a great deal of process redesign work, redeployment and retraining of the people transitioned to the supplier, and almost always includes the information technology that enables and supports the business process.

The goal is to provide an even greater opportunity for generating innovation within the core business that is *not* outsourced. Outsourcing offers increased speed to market and shareholder value through this more integrated approach and it is within this environment that innovation can flourish.