Viewpoints on Offshoring
For practitioners of offshoring, external perspectives are important, and help thinking outside the box. While researching for my book, I took a conscious decision to reach out to people in the industry and academia, instead of focusing on ideation by internal Infosys “gurus” and thought leaders. Not that there was a dearth of them but just to help me get a broader perspective.
There are over a dozen people who agreed to be quoted, and gave me inputs and abstracts for inclusion in the book. The list includes Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, a British offshoring expert and author of “Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage” generously agreed to an interview which I adapted and included in the first section of my book that introduces the strategic perspective and “trends in offshore IT outsourcing.”
Interestingly, Mark who is also active in British Computer Society and a vocal proponent of offshoring – is editing a book “Building a Future with BRICs” that includes perspectives from industry leaders.
Closer home at Infosys, Jyoti, Mayank and Santhosh have authored an interesting paper “Overcoming Requirements Engineering Challenges: Lessons from Offshore” published in the recent IEEE Software Journal [September/October 2006]. The case studies used in the write-up add to the perspectives that appear in the special issue on Global Software Development.
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nice work!
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Posted by: Albert | July 17, 2007 01:32 AM