| Vol. 17, No. 10, October 2004 Printer Friendly PDF version | ||
| Outsourcing Is a Corporate IT Issue Effective IT outsourcing requires IT managers to rethink their business objectives, their processes, their metrics, and the way they do business with vendors and suppliers. The result is likely to be a very different kind of IT department a few years down the road. Outsourcing Is a Personal Issue The competitive pressure of outsourcing extends down to individual IT professionals, many of whom feel their jobs are vulnerable today and are making their own plans to ensure their job security. If IT organizations focus only on their own plans and strategies, they may find that they've lost their most valuable employees. | "Many of the mainstream articles and reports have been written as if a company's IT organization didn't exist or would somehow vanish the moment the offshoring contract was signed." - Ed Yourdon, Guest Editor
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Next IssueIT-Based Business Innovations Guest Editor: Borys Stokalski | ||
Join Guest Editor (and CITJ founder) Ed Yourdon for a lively discussion of the phenomenon he predicted more than a decade ago -- the offshore outsourcing of IT, which has become one of the hottest personal, economic, and political issues of our day. Will adjusting your attitude about the new IT delivery landscape bolster your job security, or must you completely rethink your career strategy to stay employed in IT? How can you best address security and quality concerns when development is happening continents away? And how can you ensure that relationship and contract management issues don't outweigh outsourcing's promised cost and productivity gains? Don't miss this thought-provoking issue -- it could save your job!
