Mentioned some interesting survey results from companies that have gone offshore. "Of those companies that have gone offshore, 88 percent said they had gotten better" value for money "with American companies. That is not too surprising.
What is surprising, and what is worrying IT services company in the United States, are some other survey results: - 71 percent said the "quality of the final result" was better than American companies provided, and - 67 for percent said "on time delivery" was better. In other words, India's IT services firms are surpassing their counterparts in the United States in three key areas: they are producing better products and services are doing it faster, and are asking for less. This is good news for CIOs, but bad news for U.S. companies. "- I know that there has been and continues to be" heated "discussions and debates about offshore outsourcing in many forums.
And 'offshore outsourcing a "ruin" or a "windfall" for Virtual Consulting?
IMHO, the fact that at least some of these companies can successfully employ offshore resources to achieve quality products in a cost effective and timely, is proof tha Virtual Consulting really works!
Do not you agree?
In other related articles, we note in particular that India is booming due to IT outsourcing:
Ref: "growing trend towards IT outsourcing is a boon for India with sle-@ajc.com Scott Leith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, May 4, 2003"
He does not believe that the companies see that they are able to allow work to be performed remotely / virtually, even halfway around the world in India, that this type of Virtual Consulting is not only practical, but useful?
Granted I have seen and heard of companies of all sizes and (supposed) levels of maturity (SEI CMM), not when you try to outsourcing projects. But, in my opinion, the cases I have heard seem to be attributed to a lack of understanding of how to plan and / or manage these types of outsourcing / virtual / remote projects.
What have you heard about the success or failures of companies' success in outsourcing projects? and why they succeed or fail?
What do you see as the risks, problems, opportunities and / or rewards of offshore outsourcing than Virtual Consulting?
How can we turn this trend for our mutual benefit?
Again, I think, I actually see this trend of offshore outsourcing as an opportunity for consultants virtual / Consulting.
Just think, if companies believe that you can design, manage, test, etc. A product / project under development from remote and possibly off-shore because you can also perform your consulting, design, management, control etc. tasks remotely / virtually on the physical location (s) of society?
Moreover, it leads us in the direction in which the goals are to use the best high quality, effective and efficient resources of time for a task / project, no matter where in the world is doing the work? This does not tell us that we are starting to face really a true "global economy"? And is not this what Virtual Consulting is this?
You tell me?!
No comments:
Post a Comment