OffShoring

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Offshoring is when work is exported to cheaper countries with sufficiently educated work-forces. OutSourcing is subcontracting work to other (more specialist) companies.

But people often use these terms interchangeably.

Main Discussions

OffShoringWhyIsItInteresting?

/ArgumentsAgainst

Strategies for coping / avoiding

** OffShoringTheNextBigThing

** I have some thoughts on WhatCivilizedGovernmentsShouldDoAboutOffShoring

** OffshoringDebateWithGraham about off-shoring and skill-levels (See also BlairiteEducationPolicy)

** Software centric : FreeSoftwareAndOffShoring

** Nov 2003, rant on Tribe via Blog : http://blahsploitation.blogspot.com/2003/11/another-rant.html

Automation is also a going to remove jobes : ProductivityOfKnowledgeWork, AutomatingMechanicalJobs

** ClassWarBetweenProductsAndServices

How bad might it be?

** It's LabourArbitrage

** The DigitalDeathRattleOfTheAmericanMiddleClass

** More : http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/021306Roberts.shtml

** Essays by RaymondDonaldPairan on off-shoring

Contrast :

JohnSeelyBrown thinks TheOnlySustainableEdge is in making connections that help your organization learn. OffShoring is not about labour arbitrage but making connections with centres of greater knowledge.

In other words, this is another version of FourthGenerationWar's GrandStrategy which focuses on strengthening connections to centres of stability and order, and loosening them to centres of disorder. So Seely Brown thinks you strengthen connections to centres of innovation.

News

Offshoring local journalism : http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/05/outsourcingthefuture.html
Via GrahamLally : and http://www.forio.com/outsourcing.htm and Graham's comment : http://describe.blogspot.com/20040101describearchive.html#107332425940338071
VirginiaPostrel finds the new jobs : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/magazine/22ESSAY.html?pagewanted=print&position=

RichardFlorida thinks America is losing CreativeClass jobs : (now http://www.creativeclass.org/creativewar.shtml (now on CreativeClass/FlightThereof

Now journalism is going too : http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/18/2240229.shtml

DanielDavies : http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/20040321d-squareddigestarchive.html#107996085891925308
Offshoring is about education : but http://cshipley.typepad.com/chrisshipleygroup/2004/03/aresponseto_o.html but remember BlairiteEducationPolicy
Myths about China : http://www.core77.com/reactor/08.04_china.asp
EdYourdon's book is out. Review : http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0,10801,95255,00.html

Incentive for executives : via http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6108458 via (See http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=182059&ixReplies=20 (See also OnIncentives)

Agile OffShoring : http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileOffshore.html

Disproportionally hurts the "individualist" non team-player programmer? (See http://www.sdtimes.com/cols/winwatch_114.htm (See also OnIndividualism, CreativeClass)

Outsourcing in Canada (OnCanada) :

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc20050728_4517.htm

Five years from now, a significant portion of the Silicon Valley infrastructure – venture capitalists, lawyers, advertising and marketing agencies, etc. - will have operations in Bangalore, helping local entrepreneurs move into global markets quickly. Many talented software engineers, trained in the leading-edge technologies by larger corporations, will be drawn by this infrastructure to leave their safe havens and build their own business. A vibrant community of software startups will drive the next wave of innovation in the city.