Technology companies are coming out of the closet. Rather than hide the fact that they’re moving more development and other work offshore, they’re publicizing it. Bill Gates and Michael Dell are posing for photos with Indian tech executives. Capgemini, EDS, and IBM are issuing press releases about the thousands of workers they plan to add abroad. Even big IT shops are less defensive than they used to be about their overseas ambitions. It’s suddenly OK, if still not quite chic, to talk publicly about your global workforce.
And many other interesting points as well…..
The single biggest boost to the Indian IT and professional services trade over the past couple of years, according to a top exec of one of India’s leading IT and professional services firms, is none other than CNN’s Lou Dobbs. That’s right. It seems that the country’s pre-eminent offshoring basher has piqued corporate America’s interest in this subject. But instead of dissuading the Fortune 1,000 from turning abroad for software development, payroll, business consulting, customer support, HR, legal, and other services, Dobbs got those companies to investigate what all the fuss is about–and, to his chagrin, many of them like what they’re learning.
Globalization has officially arrived. Even that bastion of progressive thought leadership, The New York Times, in the person of columnist Thomas Friedman, now realizes that the “flat” business world in which we live won’t be structured country by country. We can disagree on whether that trend ultimately serves our long-term economic interests, but there’s no disagreeing on whether it will happen. It’s here, to stay.
Full article available on the Information Week website
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