Clearly this is a problem with your *management* and not "outsourcing". They obviously didnt do their homework when it came to finding out the competency of the team (which means they were incompetent themselves) If your management is that bad.. you gotta be looking for a job elsewhere anyways... cos the business isnt going to survive. Good managers are ones that know good deals from bad ones and good workers from bad ones.
An alternative story could be: 1. You are swamped with work on drivers 2. management outsources some drivers 3. All drivers are completed on time 4. customers are happy 5. you get a bonus
Whats so unlikely about this story given a good outsourcing strategy?
Examining the source of funding is very important in studies. Not that the study has no value but that they have their own inherent perspectives (biases). Every manager you ask today talks about the difficulty to hire good talent... irrespective of the country they are in. But then what is "good" talent?.. we always want better than what we have now.
The bottom line is: The 'globalization' of industries and labor pools is going to cause upheavals in certain areas. No one complained when local industries in developing countries were destroyed due to the manufacturing and market power exerted by large western conglomerates. Similarly we are not going to see too much sympathy for programmers here that do run of the mill jobs that can be done anywhere else in the world. How many HTML programmers do we see today? I think the US has always been creative and must remain so in order to draw the wages they do today. If you stagnate, you lose.
I work on Open Source Issues...
There is a bunch of stuff written on open source that you could reference.
type 1: Rambling stuff like Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar and a bunch of other books (Open Sources, Free For all etc.)
Type 2: Serious literature from economics like the link to Josh Lerner's page at HBS (check the references in his paper), another one to look at is: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=24323 7
this is from the legal literature
I think the exciting thing of this field is that you have to bring in new thinking to understand and extend whatever is already there and there is ample opportunity for it.
All the best
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Clearly this is a problem with your *management* and not "outsourcing". .. you gotta be looking for a job elsewhere anyways... cos the business isnt going to survive. Good managers are ones that know good deals from bad ones and good workers from bad ones.
They obviously didnt do their homework when it came to finding out the competency of the team (which means they were incompetent themselves)
If your management is that bad
An alternative story could be:
1. You are swamped with work on drivers
2. management outsources some drivers
3. All drivers are completed on time
4. customers are happy
5. you get a bonus
Whats so unlikely about this story given a good outsourcing strategy?
Examining the source of funding is very important in studies. Not that the study has no value but that they have their own inherent perspectives (biases). Every manager you ask today talks about the difficulty to hire good talent... irrespective of the country they are in. But then what is "good" talent? .. we always want better than what we have now.
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The bottom line is: The 'globalization' of industries and labor pools is going to cause upheavals in certain areas. No one complained when local industries in developing countries were destroyed due to the manufacturing and market power exerted by large western conglomerates. Similarly we are not going to see too much sympathy for programmers here that do run of the mill jobs that can be done anywhere else in the world. How many HTML programmers do we see today? I think the US has always been creative and must remain so in order to draw the wages they do today. If you stagnate, you lose.
Here is a report about another study conducted at Duke University about outsourcing:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2
I work on Open Source Issues... There is a bunch of stuff written on open source that you could reference. type 1: Rambling stuff like Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar and a bunch of other books (Open Sources, Free For all etc.) Type 2: Serious literature from economics like the link to Josh Lerner's page at HBS (check the references in his paper), another one to look at is: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=24323 7
this is from the legal literature
I think the exciting thing of this field is that you have to bring in new thinking to understand and extend whatever is already there and there is ample opportunity for it.
All the best