I read your post with interest, and hope that you, like so many contented employees do not find yourself unemployed and unemployable through no performance criteria or fault of your own.
The reality is that Corporations, even Fortune 100 corporations are begining to look at Business Models that will allow them to weather the rough times, and produce quickly when the market picks up. Data Processing is very much a part of the manufacturing process and embedded in all of the major companies today. The luxury of maintaining a full staff with a reciprocal arrangement, where the employee gives life time loyality to a corporation who returns a life time of employeement is not, and has not been for some time a viable business model.
One of the models that is currently being looked at is one of a 100% outsourcing of all Data Processing Development and Support. The requirements and monitoring of these projects would be done by corporate project managers and all the work done by an outsource company.
This actually would be a good model for the Data Processing Developer and Production Support personnel, where the outsourced work can be done at home, assembled, tested and QA'd in a central site, and the focus would then be on the work and not corporate politics.
Unfortunately, third world countries have figured this out a long time ago, and companies like TaTa of India (they own Mercedies Benz and a lot of Indian business) have outsourcing companies with offices in nice areas like Bangalore, South India. Telephony call centers are set up in places like this, and a lot of the local work from places like Tampa, FL have moved to these overseas sites.
I am not sure how we could set up an outsourcing business model. Most placement companies focus entirely on putting people in corporations, even though it is obvious that in this game of musical chairs, that the chairs are being pulled out faster than ever. If we were farmers the government would be subsidizing us and these types of efforts, but I do not see any help from them - they evey play the Grinch by going home for Christmas with the Unemployement checks unresolved.
Does anyone have any useful ideas of how we could look at and implement a viable business model that would reflect how to realign the American Data Processing Industry?
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The reality is that Corporations, even Fortune 100 corporations are begining to look at Business Models that will allow them to weather the rough times, and produce quickly when the market picks up. Data Processing is very much a part of the manufacturing process and embedded in all of the major companies today. The luxury of maintaining a full staff with a reciprocal arrangement, where the employee gives life time loyality to a corporation who returns a life time of employeement is not, and has not been for some time a viable business model.
One of the models that is currently being looked at is one of a 100% outsourcing of all Data Processing Development and Support. The requirements and monitoring of these projects would be done by corporate project managers and all the work done by an outsource company.
This actually would be a good model for the Data Processing Developer and Production Support personnel, where the outsourced work can be done at home, assembled, tested and QA'd in a central site, and the focus would then be on the work and not corporate politics.
Unfortunately, third world countries have figured this out a long time ago, and companies like TaTa of India (they own Mercedies Benz and a lot of Indian business) have outsourcing companies with offices in nice areas like Bangalore, South India. Telephony call centers are set up in places like this, and a lot of the local work from places like Tampa, FL have moved to these overseas sites.
I am not sure how we could set up an outsourcing business model. Most placement companies focus entirely on putting people in corporations, even though it is obvious that in this game of musical chairs, that the chairs are being pulled out faster than ever. If we were farmers the government would be subsidizing us and these types of efforts, but I do not see any help from them - they evey play the Grinch by going home for Christmas with the Unemployement checks unresolved.
Does anyone have any useful ideas of how we could look at and implement a viable business model that would reflect how to realign the American Data Processing Industry?