Although the US IT workforce has grown by 1% ... since the beginning of the year, the short-term hiring outlook continues to remain bleak ... [jobless] IT professionals [with] in-demand skills ... point the finger at H-1B visa holders and offshore programming outfits, where a growing number of companies are shifting their development and maintenance work to reduce costs.
-- Thomas Hoffman, ComputerWorld, 23 September 2002
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The Overseas Option: A Status Report on Software Development Outsourcing
Posted September 1, 2002 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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