Posted on 02/15/2004 11:13:30 AM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:05:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
that would be a shame if they really loved engineering, and you pushed them into plumbing just for the money.
why don't you encourage them to study engineering, learn how to run a business, start one, employ people, administer valuable resources, and then they can decided who or what to outsource?
you might smell someone who's been there and done that.
True.
There are arguments to be made against outsourcing, but I wonder if Free Republic is the right place to bring the ones that turn on painting profit as evil, fomenting hate-the-rich class warfare, and calling for government intervention to control every corporate hiring decision. Wouldn't this article be more at home if it was posted to DU? Hewlett Packard was once widely known for some research they had done which showed that the single biggest factor affecting a new product's success was whether it got there first. Has Carly seen that study? Does she know what she's giving up to save a few bucks on salaries? When a product that has $20 or $30 million invested in its development falls on its butt because HP got there 6 months behind Sony, what is she going to tell the board? That she saved $5 million by outsourcing the software to India? Anyone who is in a time-to-market business should forget all about outsourcing. You don't want to introduce communication difficulties into a project where time is money. |
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